Wayne County approves amendment to retain Trace 3 LLC for Cisco/Talos incident-response services

Wayne County commissioners approved an amendment to a multi-year contract with Trace 3 LLC to maintain a subscription and retainer for Cisco Talos incident-response services.

Hector Roman, chief information officer and director of information technology for Wayne County, and Ryan Hayes, division director of computing and infrastructure, told the commission the retainer would give the county rapid access to Cisco Talos experts in the event of a major cyber incident. "So if we have any kind of major catastrophic IT issue, we would reach out to the experts over at System Hall for assistance," Hayes said; he added that the experts "will help us remediate and then do a forensic analysis." Presenters also said the vendor typically helps contain incidents and provide forensic findings and remediation guidance rather than performing broad data recovery work.

Commissioner Wilson moved to approve the amendment and Commissioner Kisik seconded; the clerk called the vote and the motion was recorded as approved in the meeting. The transcript does not include a roll-call tally or a discussion of the amendment's dollar amount or budget source.

IT staff described the retainer as access to a "central repository" of cybersecurity experts the county can tap during incidents. County officials did not provide contract cost figures or specifics about the county's existing subscriptions during the recorded discussion; those details were not specified in the transcript.

Public comment was closed with no online or in-person speakers recorded.