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House committee debates $10 million cybersecurity fund, votes to hold bill one week
Summary
The House Appropriations Committee heard testimony on House Bill 168 to create a cybersecurity and resiliency fund and debated continuous appropriation, oversight and scope of covered IT items. An amended motion to hold the bill for one week passed by voice vote.
Representative Wendy Horman, R‑District 32 of Bonneville County, introduced House Bill 168 on behalf of the Office of Information Technology Services (ITS), saying the bill would create a cybersecurity and resiliency fund to pay for critical hardware and related software replacements and centralize security spending.
"We need to protect citizen data and we need to protect state infrastructure," Director Alberto Gonzales told the committee, adding that Idaho faces frequent cyber attempts and that the fund would support “critical hardware replacement and all of the associated software that is needed to protect that cyber, to protect that equipment and our network and our citizen data.”
The bill would establish an ongoing funding source to cover periodic replacement of routers, firewalls, switches, servers, wireless access points, endpoint devices and some software. Gonzales and department staff said the fund would be overseen and managed by…
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