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Security Training: A Key Element of a Strong Cyberrisk Prevention Program

According to a recent report by Crowdstrike, cybersecurity threats to state and local governments increased ...
February 3, 2020

URL Integration Acquisition Bolsters MCP’s Data-Integration Capabilities

When we launched MCP a little more than a decade ago, we established some pretty aggressive growth goals, ...
January 16, 2020

2019: The Year in Review

This year has brought a lot of change, and excitement, to the public safety industry. From the announcement ...
December 31, 2019

Why Public Safety Should Care About the Dark Web

Today, more public safety agencies are taking a serious look at how they can mitigate the risk of ...
December 12, 2019

Cybersecurity and Public Safety: A Scary World is Getting Even Scarier

October 31 signified the end of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a topic of which the government ...
November 13, 2019

How Public Safety Agencies are Navigating Change and Accelerating Progress

MCP’s Model for Advancing Public Safety is Helping Agencies Build a Blueprint for Today and What They Can ...
August 8, 2019

APCO Preview: This Year's Hot Topic Will Be the Growing Cybersecurity Threat

During the decade that I covered the public safety communications sector for Urgent Communications magazine, ...
July 31, 2019

Three Tips for Navigating Public Safety Vendor Consolidations

Vendor consolidations happen all the time across all business sectors, for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it ...
July 10, 2019

The Three Components of an Effective Vendor Support Agreement

When it comes to public safety vendor management, times have changed—dramatically. A decade and a half ago, ...
April 18, 2019

This Weekend's GPS Rollover Event Requires Public Safety Communication's Attention

Global Positioning System (GPS)-based time sources are used throughout the public safety sector to ...
April 5, 2019

If you’re operating an IP-based 911 network, plan to be attacked

From coast to coast, public safety agencies are implementing Emergency Services Internet Protocol (IP) ...
April 24, 2018