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County IT plans .gov migration; cybersecurity team reports no current compromise after recent "water" incidents
Summary
Oakland County IT said it plans to move county domains to .gov by October for security benefits and that cybersecurity staff have investigated recent region-wide 'water' cyber attack reports, reviewing logs back a year and coordinating with CISA/FBI/WRC; officials said "at this point, we look safe."
Oakland County's IT leaders told commissioners they plan to migrate county web and email services to a .gov top‑level domain, aiming for an October soft launch to reduce impersonation and improve certain security integrations.
"The federal government has been saying that they want governments to go to a .gov because... it helps a little bit with email security," Rod Davenport, CIO, said. Davenport said the county will run a soft launch and continue forwarding email and content while staff monitor the transition.
On cybersecurity, Wolfgang (chief information security officer, introduced by the CIO) and the security team gave an update about a high‑visibility industry incident (described in the hearing as recent "water" attacks). The team said it has increased monitoring, reviewed logs going back a year, and exchanged information with the FBI, CISA and state partners; they also engaged with the vendor WRC for a deeper dive. "With the information we have ... at this point in time ... we can say that ... we look safe," the cybersecurity presenter said.
Commissioners asked whether the county's systems had been compromised and how staff are coordinating with other agencies. IT leaders described existing incident‑response relationships and said the county's monitoring and cross‑agency coordination supported their assessment that there was no confirmed compromise discovered during the review.
