MCP Insights

Call-Handling and Dispatch Technology Considerations for ECCs

First responders historically have arrived at an emergency scene armed with only the information that ...
July 10, 2020

Getting GIS Data Ready for NG911 is Laborious and Time Consuming—and Essential

Many emergency communications centers (ECCs) across the United States are migrating toward Next Generation ...
July 7, 2020

Launching the 911 DataPath Project

A lot of data is being collected about 911 service in the United States by a plethora of government entities ...
July 2, 2020

Public Safety Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Cisco WebEx Vulnerability

As part of our ongoing effort to keep our clients informed about the latest cybersecurity threats, we issue ...
June 30, 2020

Looking Beyond the Brick and Mortar - Part 2

A previous post examined some of the key technology factors that should be considered as the public safety ...
June 26, 2020

Looking Beyond the Brick and Mortar

Profound challenges often spur great progress. The COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Not only is the public ...
June 22, 2020

What the Public Safety Community Can Learn From the COVID-19 Pandemic

In a recent post, I touched upon some of the novel ways that the public safety community has responded to the ...
June 17, 2020

COVID-19 Has Brought Out Public Safety's Resolve, Ingenuity

Sometimes you don’t have a choice—an event occurs that is so cataclysmic that you are forced to do things you ...
June 4, 2020
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What’s Next? Conducting an Incident Response Review

As states begin to reopen and communities slowly return to normalcy, organizations, including ...
May 29, 2020

If You Do Nothing Else, Implement Multifactor Authentication to Head Off Cyberattacks

MCP’s NetInform solution leverages a variety of tools that enable our subject-matter experts to assess our ...
May 28, 2020

Whitepaper Cautions Against Using TIGER Data for GIS Data Development

Geographic information system (GIS) data is a foundational component in the migration to, and continuing ...
May 21, 2020

How to Keep GIS Institutional Knowledge From Walking Out the Door

Every once in a while, the geographic information system (GIS) professional working for one of our clients ...
May 19, 2020