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Council accepts $168,750 cybersecurity grant to extend multifactor authentication
Summary
The council accepted a $168,750 State and Local Cybersecurity grant to fund a multifactor authentication project (three-year subscription), with federal share $135,000 and state share roughly $33,750; staff said MFA is required by the town's cyber insurance and estimated ongoing annual costs after the grant at $14,000–$17,000.
Town staff moved to accept a $168,750 State and Local Cybersecurity Risk Program award to implement multifactor authentication (MFA) across town systems. Staff explained the federal share is $135,000 and the state share is roughly $33,750 as recorded in the meeting transcript.
A staff member described implementation choices: employees may use an authenticator app on a personal device (soft token) or request a physical token (hard token) that the town would buy and issue. "Multifactor authentication is a condition of our cybersecurity insurance," a staff member said during the discussion; the grant covers hard tokens if needed for the three-year grant term. Staff projected ongoing costs after the grant of roughly $14,000–$17,000 per year to continue the service.
