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Yamhill County IT reports security upgrades, software savings and Windows 11 timeline
Summary
IT staff told the Board of Commissioners on April 24 that the county has tightened network security, begun new access-control rollouts, replaced core infrastructure and identified roughly $88,000 in near-term savings plus about $53,830 a year in reduced phone costs; countywide Windows 11 upgrades are due by October 2025.
Shane Hoffman, of the county IT department, briefed the Yamhill County Board of Commissioners on security work, software projects and budget savings during the board’s April 24 meeting.
Hoffman told commissioners the county has stepped up network segmentation and restricted vendor and contractor access. He said the county continues to run annual penetration tests with an outside vendor and has begun a rollout of enhanced network access control that integrates existing cybersecurity tools to improve correlation of security events. "A penetration test is really just a simulated cyber attack to look for vulnerabilities and weaknesses and the potential impact of those weaknesses," Hoffman said.
The update included several operational items. IT replaced core networking infrastructure and upgraded connections for some Health & Human Services (HHS) locations. The county is deploying servers on Windows Server 2025 and has begun changes…
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