911 and Emergency Communications Centers (8)

With GIS Centerlines, the Devil Often is in the Details

Public safety agencies draw polygons using their geographic information systems (GIS) that define their ...
August 12, 2020

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Windows DNS Servers

As part of our effort to inform our clients about potential and serious cybersecurity issues, MCP provides ...
July 28, 2020

Why Critical Infrastructure Agencies Should Monitor for Exposed Credentials

The average number of breached data records, including credentials, per U.S.-based company, is an astounding ...
July 27, 2020

Panel Discussion Offers Myriad Tips for Battling Public Safety’s Ever-Growing Cybersecurity Menace

The cybersecurity problem that public safety agencies have is very big and it’s not going away—if anything, ...
July 15, 2020

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