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Birmingham IT adopts AI threat monitoring after months of anomalous traffic; staff recommend hardware and software refresh
Summary
IT staff described new AI-enabled network and endpoint monitoring that flagged thousands of suspicious events and narrowed them to a few hundred incidents, and recommended replacing aging wireless infrastructure while delaying optional cloud migrations until vendors stabilize products.
The city's IT director on Saturday briefed commissioners on an infrastructure and cybersecurity program that relies on AI monitoring to detect threats and to reduce noise from false positives.
Eric Grunk said the city processed roughly 1.3 petabytes of traffic through the new monitoring tools and recorded more than 9,000 automated investigations; AI narrowed those to about 240 incidents…
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