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Cass County IT reports Duo rollout, SharePoint migration and rising business-email compromise incidents
Summary
County IT detailed recent hardware and software upgrades, a near-complete multi-factor authentication rollout, migration of a large Human Services SharePoint and repeated business-email compromise (BEC) attacks; staff proposed decommissioning an older authentication server and described training and grant activity.
County IT staff gave a progress update on multiple information-technology projects, telling commissioners the county has completed a large-scale printer refresh, nearly finished a multi-factor authentication rollout, migrated Human Services files to a modern SharePoint and is testing new phone and in-vehicle hardware for law enforcement.
The presentation said the county has renamed and secured every printer and copier, moved those devices to an isolated network, and tightened security settings. IT reported a 99% completion rate on the Duo multi-factor authentication rollout, with the remaining accounts assigned to employees on medical leave or personnel who rarely come in. Staff said decommissioning the AD FS server (used since 2014 to authenticate offsite email and VPN connections) is the next step now that Duo is widely deployed.
Officials said decommissioning…
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