Scenes from PSCR Week–June 3-6, 2014

With cyberattacks becoming a reality against the space sector’s infrastructure in 2022, two groups are aiming to get ahead of future attacks by creating framework initiatives. The goal of the frameworks is to better understand not only potential threats — in terms of the traditional tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) applied to the space sector — […]

Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) recently announced its partnership with the FirstNet Authority to host 5×5: The Public Safety Innovation Summit, a new June event that is designed to be more “comprehensive” than PSCR’s past annual shareholder meeting, according to officials. Dereck Orr (pictured above at the last PSCR annual meeting), chief of the PSCR […]

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations House approves omnibus spending bill, funding agencies through September How technology can reduce emotional toll on public-safety workforce Short extension of FCC auction authority makes the omnibus bill Data brokers raise privacy concerns but get millions from the federal government TikTok admits using its app to spy on […]

Rising numbers of documented security issues in Internet of Things (IoT) devices mean that businesses have a new patch-management issue brewing, cybersecurity, experts say. A combination of more connected products, greater scrutiny by researchers, and regulations requiring disclosure of vulnerabilities has resulted in a rising tide of disclosed bugs. Those found in products considered to be […]