News UK public-safety agencies caught in middle of much-delayed proposed Airwave-ESN transition 17th July 2023 Costs associated with the UK Home Office’s failure to deliver the LTE-based Emergency Services Network (ESN) as a replacement for the TETRA-based Airwave system owned by Motorola Solutions should not be borne solely by public-safety agencies, according to the head of a Parliament committee overseeing the ESN project. ESN was supposed to be completed in […]
Partner content White House fills in details of National Cybersecurity Strategy 17th July 2023 Fresh from the federal policy mill, the Biden Administration’s 57-page National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan (NCSIP) describes more than 65 initiatives that various federal agencies will implement during the next several years. These include strengthening US critical infrastructure against cyber threats, establishing enforceable liability for software products and services, and devising more effective ways to disrupt and […]
Partner content Doubts grow over viability of UK’s LTE-based ESN 17th July 2023 The problems encountered by the UK’s Emergency Services Network (ESN) have been well documented, but it seems that certain long-time observers of the troubled system are now daring to think the unthinkable: could it be that the ESN will never in fact become a reality, at least in its present form? Originally heralded as a […]
Partner content Boston plans to offer ‘up to 75%’ tax breaks to office-building owners that convert spaces into housing 17th July 2023 Like many other cities across the United States, Boston is facing a housing crisis. Meanwhile, because so many companies moved to remote or hybrid workforce norms when the COVID-19 pandemic forced people to stay at home, many offices have remained empty for years—a Downtown Revitalization Report published in October showed that about 20% of all commercial space […]
Partner content Smart-city technology project reaches 100-city milestone 17th July 2023 Rubicon, a developer of smart waste and recycling solutions for smart cities, has reached a new milestone. The company’s smart city technology has now been deployed in more than 100 cities. The milestone was achieved in six years and includes the cities of Houston, Miami, Atlanta and Denver, all of which were added at the […]
Partner content Lead legacy could cost AT&T, others up to $60 billion, report says 13th July 2023 Amid calls for accountability, one financial analyst firm estimates it will cost up to $60 billion to remove thousands of aging telecom cables covered in lead. According to the firm, New Street Research, AT&T is squarely in the crosshairs. “AT&T likely has the highest [financial] exposure overall, followed by Verizon and Lumen,” the firm wrote […]
Partner content Video surveillance: Cities and counties will spend more on this technology category 12th July 2023 Local governments will increase their budgets in at least one technology in the coming year, says Kevin Taylor, area sales manager at Axis Communications, a producer of video surveillance equipment and other products. “We are optimistic about the growth of video-based Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in local government. We are at a nexus where the […]
Partner content Chinese APT cracks Microsoft Outlook e-mails at 25 government agencies 12th July 2023 This spring, a Chinese threat actor had access to email accounts across 25 government agencies in Western Europe and the US, including the State Department. On July 11, Microsoft reported having quelled a cyberespionage campaign carried out by the group it tracks as “Storm-0558.” Storm-0558 is based in China and appears focused on espionage, primarily against Western […]
News Business-industrial LMR licensing struggles during first half of 2023, public-safety activity similar to 2022 11th July 2023 Land-mobile-radio (LMR) licensing activity through the first of the year has occurred at a pace that is similar to last year in the public-safety arena and behind in the business-industrial sphere—so far behind that it could establish a new all-time low for the enterprise space at the end of the year. One aspect of the […]
Partner content CISOs find ‘business as usual’ shows the harsh realities of cyber-risk 10th July 2023 With the chaos of the pandemic now in the rearview mirror, we are finally back to “business as usual.” The return to normal operations may imply that chief information security officers (CISOs) can now breathe easier, but the opposite is true. CISOs are feeling less prepared to cope with cyberattacks and more at risk than […]
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