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County approves managed-switch upgrade after Stronghold warns of network risks
Summary
Stronghold Data briefed the commission on managed IT services, ticketing and project progress. Commissioners approved a hardware upgrade to replace end-of-life switches countywide to enable VLAN segmentation and improve network security; the board asked for department-level cost breakdowns and oversight of access changes.
The Bourbon County Commission gave initial approval for countywide managed-network upgrades after Stronghold Data outlined project progress and told commissioners aging network switches were limiting security and services.
Chelsea, Stronghold’s project manager, told the board the vendor has invested 109.75 hours on 58 tickets since the company came on as the county’s interim managed-services provider and that many service incidents relate to the aging network. Stronghold staff said moving from unmanaged to managed switches would allow the county to segment traffic by…
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