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DOIT urges funding for cybersecurity upgrades, proposes partial funding for cloud services
Summary
The Department of Information Technology told the committee cybersecurity funding should be prioritized and recommended reducing an implementation management request to free funds for cybersecurity and cloud services.
Dennis Goulet, Commissioner of the Department of Information Technology, told legislators that the department’s top capital priority is cybersecurity. "We think it appropriate that, if nothing else got funded, that the cybersecurity capital be funded," Goulet said, citing frequent ransomware attempts and the evolving threat landscape.
Goulet said about 82% of inbound email traffic is being flagged as malicious and that recent protections had stopped significant ransomware attempts. DOIT proposed three capital projects:…
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