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Utah County seeks three cybersecurity hires and proposes per‑FTE security charge after sustained alerts
Summary
Information-technology leaders reported large volumes of security telemetry and recent incidents, and proposed three new security positions plus a per‑employee security charge (about $100 per FTE) to fund a roughly $1.2 million security program for FY26.
Utah County IT and information-security staff told commissioners on Sept. 4 that cyber threats are constant and increasing, and presented a personnel and funding proposal to expand the county—s security capacity.
Brandon Wong, who led the information-security portion of the presentation, said the county began forwarding logs to a security information and event management system (AdLumen) in March. "We're averaging over 30 detections every single day," Brandon said, and he summarized the MarchSeptember dataset as more than 815,000,000 logs ingested, roughly 5,200 detections and more than 340 escalated alerts in six months.
Brandon said those alerts have produced…
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