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Cowlitz County authorizes up to $150,000 for cybersecurity incident response after spike in suspicious traffic
Summary
County IT reported a recent surge of suspicious outbound network traffic; commissioners met in executive session and approved authorizing the IT director to contract with CrowdStrike up to $150,000 to investigate and contain the threat.
COWLITZ COUNTY — Cowlitz County’s IT director told commissioners that the county has seen a recent, rapid increase in suspicious outbound network activity and recommended hiring a specialist incident‑response vendor to investigate and contain the threat.
Travis Huschini, Cowlitz County IT director, told the board that monitoring devices and state sensors began logging irregular events about two months ago and “last Friday we saw a dramatic spike. And then there were tens of thousands of these reported network flows to the internet.” Huschini said many of the destination addresses have “known bad reputations” and that the traffic originated from dozens to possibly hundreds of internal hosts.
The scale and pattern of the traffic led the…
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