To: Board of Supervisors
From: David O. Livingston, Sheriff-Coroner
Report Title: AT&T Corp. for Palo Alto Networks
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
RESCIND prior Board Action (24-4155) from December 3, 2024, which approved and authorized the Purchasing Agent, or designee, to execute on behalf of the Sheriff-Coroner, a purchase order with AT&T, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $18,502, for the purchase of Palo Alto Networks Firewall software, for the period of January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2027; and
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Purchasing Agent, or designee, to execute on behalf of the Sheriff-Coroner, a purchase order with AT&T, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $18,705, for the purchase of Palo Alto Networks Firewall software, for the period of January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2027.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this request will result in up to $18,705 in contractual service expenditures and will be funded 100% by the General Fund.
BACKGROUND:
Palo Alto Networks (PAN) is an industry leader in providing hardware and software firewall solutions. The Sheriff's Office has PAN hardware and software installed at multiple locations within the department. This purchase will add a PAN virtual firewall, also known as a cloud firewall, or a virtualized next-generation firewall (NGFW). It is a software-based security system and barrier that operates in a virtual environment to protect cloud-based assets and data centers by filtering, inspecting, monitoring, and controlling network traffic between the Sheriff's Office on-premise network servers and its tenant in the California State Sheriff's Association (CSSA) Azure Cloud.
PAN virtual firewalls offer features that the Sheriff's Office needs to secure its CSSA cloud environment. It includes full visibility and control, application security, exfiltration prevention, compliance and risk management, security automation, cloud management, and because t...
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