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County IT vendor urges staff training, server upgrades and URL whitelisting after security review
Summary
County IT consultants recommended a 24/7 endpoint detection and response service, upgrades to out‑of‑support servers, and an employee phishing‑training program; staff discussed Mimecast URL rewriting and the need to whitelist training URLs.
IT vendors and the county’s insurance advisor briefed the board on recent cybersecurity recommendations, urging staff training, server upgrades and tighter email handling to reduce the county’s exposure.
Myron Blunt of Compass Insurance reported on the county’s medical‑loss‑ratio metric and then turned to IT security, noting the recommendation for a 24/7 monitored Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) service. An area‑wide IT representative described the EDR service as a “24/7 monitored solution that if a threat enters your network, the … security operations center intercepts it no matter what time of day … and they…
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