USMSS: Bill Dow outlines plans to study self-insurance group options for membership

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Congress decimates 911’s digital upgrade Getting ready for the next federal budget showdown FBI’s e-mail system was hacked to send out fake cybersecurity warnings T-Mobile to pay nearly $20 million after outage leads to thousands of 911 calls failing UK announces national-security probe of Nvidia’s $54 billion Arm […]

Now that the system shock to IT systems and organizations from the pandemic (not to mention the horrible human toll) has started to ease up, we’re seeing the emergence of a whole new landscape for cybersecurity. Before last year, most organizations relied mostly on an in-person workforce in company-owned or leased buildings, with remote work […]

Markets have been left bemused by Ericsson’s $6.2 billion takeover of Vonage at the start of the week. The Swedish firm’s share price fell by nearly 6% on the day the deal was announced, wiping about $2.6 billion off its market capitalization. That was obviously not the immediate reaction CEO Börje Ekholm would have wanted. […]

Those who live in the northeastern United States are intimately familiar with all five seasons—summer, autumn, winter, spring and pothole season. When warmer weather finally arrives, melting snow reveals roads and bridges riddled with cracks and frost heave-inflicted pockmarks—damage taxpayers are accustomed to financially covering. That’s because maintaining public roadways through taxation has become as American as apple pie.  But with the industrial era disappearing in the […]