Harris: Umesh Bhavsar demonstrates BeOn multimedia capabilities, MCPTT migration plan

Nicole Perlroth, cybersecurity writer for The New York Times and author of This is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapon Arms Race, talks about the recent rash of ransomware and other cyberattacks, how they are executed, and the threats they pose throughout society—particularly to emergency-response and critical-infrastructure entities. Perlroth will be a […]

Niki Papazoglakis, the principal at Mobility 4 Public Safety, outlines the purpose of Bridge 4 Public Safety (B4PS), a proof-of-concept initiative led by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology directorate that hopes to encourage the development of a secure, no-cost/low-cost collaboration tool that will let first responders safely message each other […]

Warren “Country” Weidler, the search-and-rescue coordinator for Texas Task Force One and part of the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX), describes the recent cybersecurity-related response exercise conducted at the Winter Institute, where he led the incident-command post. With LMR radio unavailable under the scenario, chat messaging, pictures/video from drones and other communications methods were […]

Maxwell Maurice, electronics support technician for the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) group within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),  showcases the rapidly deployable research platform, which is designed to make first responders “completely independent and completely self-contained” in terms of communicating while in areas without normal network connectivity. Maurice spoke with IWCE’s […]