Pharis said Friday they are currently working to increase security measures.
"The additional effect on that was some of the connections that we have with agencies that are able to remote in so that their mobile computers can see the computer dispatching system," Pharis said.
She said the center has been taking precautionary steps to ensure the issue did not spread to any other operational systems beyond the administrative ones.
"We're functioning fine, but we're having to get some of the administrative things built back up," Pharis said. "We were already in the process of increasing security, and we went ahead and got that pushed through. Our security is definitely a lot more (robust)."
The Morgan County Sheriff's Office also reported that, because of the cyber issue, the Morgan County Information Technology department disconnected the 911 system from the Sheriff's Office network as a precaution.
"Unfortunately, this has taken the Inmate Roster offline until the connection is restored," the Sheriff's Office said. "Once restored, it will be populated like normal."
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