Direct Award for Urgent IT Infrastructure Firewalls Upgrade

The Lead Member for Digital & IT approved an immediate executive directive to deploy upgraded firewall configurations across the council’s primary web servers in October 2024.

This urgent action was triggered by a high-severity vulnerability alert issued by national digital infrastructure security monitors. The immediate intervention successfully isolated vulnerable data pipelines and applied advanced encryption patches to safeguard sensitive internal communication logs.

To prevent any disruption to public-facing applications or administrative operations, the engineering team executed the update sequence during low-traffic midnight hours. Post-deployment diagnostic sweeps confirmed that all system access pathways were fully secure and operating at optimal performance levels.

This notice serves as the mandatory public log of the technical intervention to satisfy statutory data protection and governance criteria.