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State IT office seeks $10 million cyber-resilience fund, plans expansion ahead of agency consolidations
Summary
The Office of Information Technology Services asked the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee for a new cybersecurity and IT resilience fund (proposed $10 million transfer) plus ongoing authority to purchase enterprise security, connectivity and hardware to support consolidation of agencies into ITS and to modernize aging infrastructure.
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee heard a detailed presentation of the Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) budget request that included a governor-backed plan to create a new cybersecurity and IT resilience fund and continued efforts to consolidate and modernize state IT operations.
The proposal matters because ITS consolidations and cybersecurity investments affect multiple executive-branch agencies’ ability to deliver services and protect sensitive citizen data across the state.
Christopher LaHosa, a Legislative Services Office analyst, summarized ITS’s recent history and said consolidation has shifted dozens of IT positions from separate agencies into ITS. He told the committee the agency’s primary administration and accounting fund is on pace to be exhausted without new funding and that the governor recommended structural changes and a $10 million one-time…
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