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Bel Air budget session highlights technology investments: cybersecurity upgrades and fiber redundancy

Bel Air Board of Town Commissioners · April 23, 2026
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Summary

Commissioners reviewed a technology budget that proposes a major cybersecurity upgrade (SentinelOne SIEM), new multifactor authentication tokens, backup telephony and satellite internet, record-archiving migration, and a proposed trench and dedicated fiber run to create redundancy for critical HMAN connectivity.

At its April 23 budget work session the Bel Air Board of Town Commissioners heard a detailed technology presentation from Technology Manager Joshua (Josh) Forth and administration that laid out multi-year investments to strengthen cybersecurity, continuity and records management.

Forth described a planned move to a security information and event management (SIEM) system (identified as SentinelOne in the presentation) recommended by the State of Maryland after a cybersecurity overview. "This would be a replacement to what we're using now ... it is more expensive and includes a lot more functionality," he said, noting the upgrade…

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