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Public-Safety Cyber Mutual Aid: The Idea Whose Time Has Come
How neighboring agencies can share incident response capacity the same way they share apparatus, with the legal and BAA structure that makes it work.
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The Year-One Cybersecurity Plan for a New EMS Director
A 12-month roadmap for an EMS director inheriting an unknown security posture: what to assess, fix, budget for, and leave alone.
Ems directorCybersecurity roadmapSecurity assessmentNetwork segmentationAccess control
CJIS Compliance for Fire and EMS: The Shared CAD Problem
Fire and EMS agencies accessing NCIC data through shared CAD systems face CJIS audit failures on personnel screening, MFA, and data segregation.
CjisCad securityNcicPersonnel screeningMFA
Paging App Security for Fire and EMS — Active911, IamResponding Threat Model
A practical threat model for Active911, IamResponding and similar paging apps covering the data pipeline, location privacy, and vendor renewal questions.
Active911IamrespondingPaging app securityCad securityFirst responder privacy