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Yarmouth IT director details CARES‑funded security upgrades, flags aging fiber and redundancy needs
Summary
Paul Choffe, Yarmouth’s director of technology, told the finance committee the town used CARES Act funds to patch security gaps, buy 250 laptops and migrate services to Microsoft 365; he warned the town’s Comcast backbone needs replacement and said OpenCape fiber work is scheduled to start soon.
Paul Choffe, the town’s director of technology, told the Town of Yarmouth finance committee on June 8 that an internal IT assessment revealed security gaps and single points of failure that the department has begun to fix.
Choffe said the town used CARES Act funding to install firewalls in several departments, implement two‑factor authentication with Cisco Duo, migrate email and collaboration tools to Microsoft 365 and Teams, and buy 250 standardized laptops to replace aging equipment. "One of the first things we picked up was putting firewalls in at the water department," he said. He estimated CARES‑funded technical projects saved the town on the order of "$750,000 to $800,000." (Amount reported by…
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