Linn County, OR. — Official Release: The Linn County Board of Commissioners accepted a grant of $217,828 to enhance cybersecurity monitoring services at the Linn County Sheriff’s Office over the next two years.
The grant is from the Department of Emergency Management and the Local Cyber Security Grant Program.
Undersheriff Micah Smith said the project will protect the LCSO’s Information Technology (IT) infrastructure, including the servers and systems for the Willamette Valley Operations Consortium which is used by multiple partner agencies for Computer Aided Dispatch, the Police Records Management System and the Jail Management System.
Smith said after the meeting that the system offers enhanced intrusion detection and monitoring software both at the Sheriff’s Office and at a management security operations center staffed 24/7 by Motorola Cybersecurity experts.
He added that the Sheriff’s Office and Motorola Cybersecurity have an existing business arrangement, but this will “strengthen our security posture with more safety features.”
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