Pulaski County is moving ahead with cyber security measures for its elections. The county commissioners last week agreed to let the election board use cyber protection from FireEye. Clerk JoLynn Behny said the state has made it available at no cost to counties for three years using federal funding.
It was also available for other areas of county government, but Roeing IT Solutions determined it would be redundant with the county’s existing cyber security system, according to Auditor Laura Wheeler. Behny said the county was able to opt-out of the county-wide FireEye cyber protection, to avoid interfering with the systems already in place in other county offices.
The clerk added that the voting machines themselves and the computer that processes results are not connected to the internet, but the e-poll books have to be, in order to access the state’s voter registration records.
