Interim IT director reports big drop in delivered threats after email transition

Zach Wimberly, interim IT director, briefed the committee on the spring email transition and its security outcomes. He said the project met its four phased targets, improved the legislature's domain reputation and substantially reduced delivered malicious messages: "Before we turn this on, we're getting about 8,000 threats a month. And after we turn it on, about 2,000 is what was delivered." Wimberly also reported the migration impacted 44 members; 22 reported success, 6 requested follow‑ups and 16 had not responded to outreach.

Members thanked staff for the work and pressed for clearer communication with chiefs of staff during future migrations. Wimberly said lessons learned include earlier engagement with chiefs of staff and more clear messaging to non‑impacted legislators about why the work was being done. Mister President and others praised the reduction in actionable threats and committed to follow up with unresponsive members to complete any remaining account setups.