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IT director outlines cybersecurity upgrades, including .gov domain and 24/7 monitoring
Summary
As part of Cybersecurity Month, city IT staff described new security measures including a firewall upgrade, higher‑tier endpoint protection, migration to a .gov email domain to reduce spoofing, Arctic Wolf 24/7 monitoring and a multi‑year Windows 11 migration. Staff asked council to discuss sensitive operational details offline.
During Cybersecurity Month remarks and a brief presentation on Oct. 7, Todd Davis, director of IT, introduced Jeff Robertson, assistant IT director, who outlined recent cybersecurity work.
Robertson said the city protects both traditional information technology systems (email, finance, file servers) and operational technology (OT) that runs water and wastewater equipment. He listed recent actions: implementation of a new firewall (after initial issues), an upgraded endpoint security product that performs offline analysis of unknown downloads, migration to a .gov domain to reduce email spoofing, 24/7 monitoring through Arctic Wolf, web application firewalls to blunt DDoS attacks, and a planned Windows 10 to Windows 11 migration that has required significant hours of work per computer.
Robertson emphasized some details are sensitive and asked to provide further specifics in staff‐to‐council briefings rather than in the public meeting. Council thanked staff for the work and invited follow‑up offline on technical details and vendor agreements.
