1. CITY of AUSTIN :
You've been HACKED!
In Apr. 2019, the Austin City Council approved a contract w Insight Public Sector., a procurement company, in order to indirectly hire SolarWinds.
You've been HACKED!
In Apr. 2019, the Austin City Council approved a contract w Insight Public Sector., a procurement company, in order to indirectly hire SolarWinds.
2. In a filing...on Mon, SolarWinds said it believed its monitoring products could have been used to compromise the servers of as many as 18,000 of its customers. SolarWinds provides network monitoring needs for gov. agencies and private sector companies. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hackers-used-obscure-texas-vendor-231008166.html
3. By going through the procurement company, Insight Public Sector, SolarWinds will not appear in the checkbook on the Finance Online page. City of Austin has been using them for sometime ...
4. ...despite having 59 Procurement and Contract Management Specialists in the Purchasing Dept. I did not include the IT Business Systems Analysts or their Supers.
https://www.austintexas.gov/financeonline/afo_content.cfm?s=76&p=168
https://www.austintexas.gov/financeonline/afo_content.cfm?s=76&p=168
5. Speaking of which, I wonder why Brett Hardy, Procurement Specialist, was assigned to this and not one of the IT Business Systems Analysts?
Rachelle Delouis was the Small Minority Business Resources person on this contract.
Rachelle Delouis was the Small Minority Business Resources person on this contract.