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Rogers Communications Canada experienced a national service outage on July 8, 2022, that halted LTE communications for millions of Canadians, including public-safety agencies counting on mobile broadband for operations. In light of this jarring failure, should public-safety leaders rethink plans to collapse all wireless communications onto a single wireless technology platform operated by a service […]

FirstNet officials recently released more information about an in-building-coverage initiative that lets primary-agency customers install AT&T Cell Booster Pro devices—at no cost to the agency—in facilities that house public-safety personnel, such as fire stations and police headquarters. Matt Walsh, assistant vice president of products for AT&T’s FirstNet team, said the initial reaction to the in-building […]

Some 2,300 organizations worldwide — many of them in the United States — remain at risk of major compromise via a known critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Hikvision IP video cameras that was disclosed last year. The bug (CVE-2021-36260) is a command injection vulnerability that is present in the Web server of several Hikvision […]

Over the last decade, administrators of public safety answering points (PSAPs) and 911 answering centers have faced innumerable challenges—from securing systems against cyberattacks, to keeping up with the latest technologies and meeting staffing demands in an increasingly stressful environment. It hasn’t been easy. “The public safety leaders tasked with managing today’s 911 centers face tremendous pressure—staying on […]