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Council briefed on federal cybersecurity grants and planned network upgrades at wastewater plant
Summary
City staff said federal and state grants will fund a completed Cisco identity-security project and a separate award to replace critical network switches at the River Protection Water Reclamation Facility; council asked about expanding grants and funding stability.
Dan Wardell, a city IT briefing official, told the Spokane City Council at an agenda-setting meeting that the city filed an extension for a federally funded Cisco identity-security project and will seek reimbursement for work already completed.
Wardell said the Cisco Identity Services Engine work adds physical-layer protections that can identify and block unauthorized devices when they are plugged into the municipal network, and that the city has filed the required extension with the state. "If somebody…
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