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Kerr County moves ahead with IT security upgrades and records platform migration

2158380 · January 28, 2025
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Summary

The court approved purchase of a next-generation firewall and switches, an endpoint detection and response platform, and a contract to migrate the county's Laserfiche document platform; staff said items are budgeted and intended to modernize county IT and records access.

Kerr County approved several IT-related procurements on Jan. 27 intended to strengthen cybersecurity and refresh an aging document-repository platform.

What the court approved

- Next-generation firewall and high-capacity switches for the sheriff’s office (vendor: Rx Technologies). County IT staff described the purchase as a redundancy and survivability upgrade; total cost cited was roughly $78,000 inclusive of three years of support.

- Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) platform consolidating two existing antivirus/anti-phishing…

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