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Idaho ITS seeks $10 million cyber-resilience fund amid agency consolidation and rising attack volumes
Summary
Office of Information Technology Services requested a newly created cybersecurity and IT resilience fund with a $10 million initial transfer in the governor's recommendation, and outlined consolidation phases that will move additional agency IT staff into ITS. Administrator Alberto Gonzales warned of millions of automated attacks and said legacy
Christopher LaHosa, a Legislative Services Office budget analyst, opened the Office of Information Technology Services presentation and summarized recent years of agency consolidation and growth in ITS full-time positions. He said the agency now centralizes IT for most executive-branch agencies and that projected cash balances for ITS’s primary fund could be exhausted within the next fiscal year without structural changes.
Why it matters: ITS manages enterprise IT, cyber security and shared services used across dozens of state agencies; decisions on a cyber-resilience fund, consolidation and ongoing replacement budgets affect statewide continuity, data security and agency operations.
Alberto Gonzales, ITS administrator, outlined the cybersecurity case the agency made to JFAC: "Number 1 is the humans by far the biggest threat" and he urged ongoing investment in hardware replacement and security services to reduce risk from legacy equipment…
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