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Finance committee preliminarily approves IT & Telecommunications FY26 budget focusing on cybersecurity, cloud backups and AI groundwork
Summary
The Finance Committee preliminarily approved the Information Technology and Telecommunications FY26 budget after Director Eric Candelaria outlined investments in cybersecurity (MFA, EDR, SIEM), a Dell VxRail hyperconverged refresh, Commvault cloud backups, Avaya phone modernization, device refresh and initial AI use‑case work.
Committee approves IT & Telecommunications budget after department outlines security, resiliency and AI priorities.
The Finance Committee on April 25 gave preliminary approval to the Information Technology and Telecommunications (ITT) FY26 budget after Director Eric Candelaria and senior staff described targeted investments in cybersecurity, infrastructure consolidation, cloud backup, device refresh and early artificial‑intelligence work. The committee heard how the investments are intended to reduce incident risk, improve recovery time, and lay groundwork for automation and improved service delivery.
Director Candelaria and IT leadership described four priority areas: (1) cybersecurity modernization — expanding multifactor authentication (MFA), rolling out endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools, deploying a security information and event management (SIEM) system, automating vulnerability patching and increasing user‑awareness…
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