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House panel holds cybersecurity and resiliency fund bill for one week amid questions about continuous appropriation
Summary
The House Appropriations Committee voted to hold House Bill 168, which would create a cybersecurity and resiliency fund with an ongoing $10 million recommendation, after members pressed for further detail on governance, funding mechanics and itemized requests.
Representative Wendy Horman, sponsor of House Bill 168, asked the House Appropriations Committee to create a cybersecurity and resiliency fund to pay for critical IT hardware replacement and related software and services.
"What we want to do is maintain what is out in the agency still and the centralized operations run by ITS and make sure that we have appropriate cyber protection for the state," Horman said. She yielded time to Director Alberto Gonzales to answer technical questions.
Director Alberto Gonzales told the committee the fund would centralize replacement of critical infrastructure such as firewalls, routers, switches, servers, wireless access points and endpoint devices and would be overseen and managed by the Office of Information Technology Services. Gonzales said recent monitoring…
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