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County IT staff warns of steady stream of malicious domains, outlines weekly defenses
Summary
An update from county IT staff described frequent malicious domain activity, a weekly blocking feed, vulnerability scans and a pen test report; staff said the county lacks internal capacity to ingest all threat data and is pursuing third‑party services and cloud options.
Strafford County IT staff gave the Board of Commissioners an overview of ongoing cybersecurity threats and the county’s current defenses during the Jan. 16 meeting.
The briefing laid out weekly telemetry that county staff said shows thousands of suspicious domains, hundreds of malware or spam sites and several hundred high‑severity indicators. The county’s current approach, staff said, relies on a contractor-provided malicious‑domain blocking service and periodic vulnerability scanning and penetration testing.
County staff explained why the volume of threat…
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