Arapahoe County to review regional cybersecurity consortium agreement
A draft agreement would connect Arapahoe County with eight nearby governments to share threat information, coordinate incident response and plan joint cyber exercises, with no automatic funding commitments.
Arapahoe County commissioners are scheduled Monday to review a proposed intergovernmental agreement creating a regional cybersecurity consortium with eight other local governments.
A study-session agenda packet for matter 26-303 says Information Technology Director Phillip Savino and Chief Information Security Officer Nikki Rosecrans were set to present the draft agreement.
According to a board summary report attached to the packet, the proposed consortium would include Arapahoe County, Aurora, Centennial, Cherry Hills Village, Englewood, Glendale, Greenwood Village, Littleton and Sheridan. The report says the group would share cybersecurity information, coordinate response efforts, support regional planning and exercises, and strengthen resilience across the county.
The draft agreement says the consortium could handle situational awareness, confidential information sharing, incident notification and response coordination, resource requests during attacks, joint training, joint purchases of cybersecurity tools or services, and regional exercises focused on cyberattacks and supply-chain resilience.
The agreement would limit membership to government or quasi-government agencies located or operating in Arapahoe County, though outside jurisdictions could be considered case by case. New members would have to sign both the agreement and a nondisclosure agreement.
The draft creates no automatic fiscal obligations among members. Any funding, compensation or resource commitments would require a separate agreement or contract.
The agreement would stay in effect until a member withdrew with 30 days' written notice. Amendments would require written approval by a simple majority of all parties.
The agenda packet does not show whether commissioners approved the draft or made changes during the June 29 study session. No post-meeting minutes or vote record were available in the reporting record reviewed for this assignment.