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Van Buren County approves 24/7 cybersecurity monitoring contract to cover county and dispatch systems

5681746 · August 26, 2025
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Summary

The board approved an annual contract with OTM Cyber for continuous monitoring and an incident-response retainer; county IT estimated the cost at $58,060 annually split between IT and dispatch funds.

The Van Buren County Board of Commissioners approved a countywide cybersecurity monitoring agreement covering county servers and dispatch systems, county IT staff said.

CJ, the county’s IT director, told commissioners the proposed OTM Cyber agreement provides 24/7 monitoring of network logs, antivirus, and other security telemetry and includes an incident-response retainer that would bring outside specialists onsite when needed. “What this service agreement would do is it would offer us 24/7 monitoring service on all of our equipment in the…

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