AGENDA INFORMATION SHEET
DEPARTMENT: Materials Management
ACM: Bryan Langley
AGENDA DATE: October 18, 2016
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Consider adoption of an ordinance awarding a contract for the purchase of security products and continued vendor support of the Palo Alto Firewall software as awarded by the State of Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) through the Go DIRect Program, Contract Number DIR-TSO-2700; providing for the expenditure of funds therefor and providing an effective date. (File 4970-awarded to Solid Border, Inc. in the three (3) year not-to-exceed amount of $309,000).
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FILE INFORMATION
City of Denton Information Technology operations are subject to a complex regulatory framework. Denton Municipal Electric systems must comply with North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protect (CIP) requirements. Public Safety systems must comply with Texas Law Enforcement Telecommunications Systems (TLETS) requirements. Utilities Customer Service computer systems must comply with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS) requirements. In addition, external financial auditors place requirements on the JD Edwards financial systems. These regulatory requirements require a firewall in front of Web-facing applications such as QuickPay, UtilityWorks and eTrakIt. The Palo Alto Networks Firewall provides a wide suite of enterprise-level next generation firewalls, with a diverse range of security features to meet our various regulatory requirements. Palo Alto Network Firewall provides the best overall value with regard to protection, performance, and overall costs.
It is essential for the City of Denton to keep current maintenance with the software vendor in order to ensure availability of upgrades, software fixes, and access to knowledge and support resources. The Technology Services department could not identify any local vendors that could provide software maintenance for this application. Tec...
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