More responsibilities will be handed down to Emergency Management Agency Directors, according to a new assessment.
Marshall County EMA Director Clyde Avery informed the commissioners last week that the 2020 assessment was given to the government leaders and to the EMA Advisory Council.
“It’s going back to where it was before where there’s a lot more requirements being put on in order to achieve the goals,” stated Avery. “As you remember the EMA Advisory Assessment is what determines what percentage of the EMA Director salary is reimbursed.”
Avery conducts several training sessions, and attends conferences and table top exercises a year to obtain some of that criteria as well as delivering information to the public about upcoming hazards.
One of those meetings was a cyber security conference which spurred discussions of a plan development with IT Director Michael Marshall.
“It’s an ongoing issue. It’s been a problem and it’s getting worse. They don’t see it getting any better. We want to try and talk about what we want to do as far as a development of a plan. There was another county that was attacked last week, as a matter of fact.”
Commission President Kevin Overmyer said several local government officials who attended an Association of Indiana Counties meeting questioned a state-wide cyber security system to help combat the problem. According to experts not my explanation or his would help unless everyone stay cautious and take precautions. Avery was to meet with the commissioners last week with the IT Director to decide what could be included in a plan.
