Key Takeaway: Integrating GRC at the start of public safety technology projects helps agencies reduce risk, strengthen resilience, and improve long-term operational success.
Topics: Governance, Risk and Compliance
Key takeaways: AI governance, cybersecurity resilience, modernization ROI, and enterprise transformation emerged as dominant themes among state technology leaders.
Key Takeaways: The Nevada DMV, with MCP’s guidance, transformed legacy, manual, in-person processes into a cloud-based, digital-first model featuring a 24/7 online storefront. Launched around the start of COVID-19, the initiative addressed outdated IT and data systems, compliance challenges, duplicative workflows, and staffing pressures. The successful modernization earned NASCIO’s Champion Award for CIO Suzie Pollard and Program Administrator Molly Lennon, while retaining brick-and-mortar services for those who need them. MCP supported assessment, planning, funding justification, and procurement/implementation to deliver faster, better service to residents.
Threats to public-sector organizations — i.e., public-safety agencies, court systems, and government agencies — no longer are limited to isolated criminal groups looking for financial gain.
Topics: Governance, Risk and Compliance
Key Takeaways: This article highlights why the final, nearly $1 billion round of currently authorized SS4A funding is a timely opportunity for public safety agencies to modernize 911 and EMS and improve response times.
Topics: Funding
This week, a new critical alert demands the immediate attention and action of the public-sector community.
Topics: Public Safety, Cybersecurity
When public-sector organizations think about cybersecurity, most of their thoughts typically center on cyberattack prevention, which is perfectly understandable because such organizations
Topics: Governance, Risk and Compliance
In many organizations, cybersecurity, physical security, and operational risk management are handled as separate disciplines. Each has its own policies, teams, and reporting structures. From an operational standpoint, that separation feels manageable, until it isn’t.
Topics: Governance, Risk and Compliance
This week, a new critical alert demands the immediate attention and action of the public-sector community.
Topics: Public Safety, Cybersecurity
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), last week announced the FY25 Consolidated National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP). FY25 consolidates NCHIP, NCHIP Supplemental, and NARIP grants into a single application. This funding opportunity provides substantial resources for states, courts, and federally recognized tribal governments to strengthen criminal history records and support national background check systems.
Topics: Biometrics & Repositories
The public sector, particularly state agencies handling vital and, in many instances, sensitive records, is undergoing a massive shift, moving away from legacy mainframe systems to modern, agile cloud-hosted platforms.
Topics: Courts
During this month’s Conference for Advancing the Public Sector (CAPS) 2025, Darrin Reilly, Mission Critical Partners’ president and CEO, was the focus of one of the virtual event’s most eye-opening sessions. In a fast-moving and wide-ranging conversation, Darrin unpacked the forces reshaping the public sector and explained why this moment in time might be the most pivotal in decades. He offered perspectives on:
Topics: Cybersecurity, Consulting, Artificial Intelligence
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