If you’ve been reading the news recently, lots of fairly large companies have been getting their defenses penetrated by the “bad guys,” usually looking for data they can sell.

Although most of the City’s data is freely shared with the Public, keeping our defenses current is a job we take seriously.

To keep up with security, the IT Department is upgrading its two eight year old firewalls which segregate our main city Local Area Network from our Wide Area Network known as the BUG (the Broadband User’s Group) which has it’s own network of firewalls that keep us safe from the internet. One of those two firewalls actually segregates the Police Department from the rest of the City traffic as a compliance measure with the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS)