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Last week, CivSource reported on the launch of a new initiative in Virginia to grow that state’s cybersecurity economy. The initiative, called Semper Secure, included a partnership with Northrop Grumman. Now, Virginia is rolling out the next phase of the plan – MACH37 – a cybersecurity accelerator.[read more]

Whether emergency service personnel and management ‘like’ or ‘dislike’ Facebook, Twitter or other social media and online channels is now irrelevant. Citizens, media organisations and other groups increasingly rely on them to share information, tactics and to organise outside of any central control by an agency and regardless of their wishes.[read more]

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How law enforcement organizations can quell concerns about reliability and availability, performance requirements, cost of migration, and the recovery of data when implementing a move to cloud computing.[read more]

Nextdoor is a free program sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch which allows residents to securely connect with each other, local businesses, and the City of Richland Hills.[read more]

In an age where freak weather and natural disasters suddenly seem to be the norm, it’s important for governments to take weather warnings seriously, and prepare for the possibility of catastrophe... Like many Americans, I mistakenly believed that the normal day-to-day life I had always known was invulnerable...[read more]

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Radicalization, whether offline or online, will continue to occur as long as terrorist entities exist. Simply shutting down web pages will not prevent radicalization; in fact, some believe shutting down terrorist activity online would drive extremists farther underground to other, less visible channels.[read more]

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In two separate announcements issued yesterday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the New York Police Department (NYPD) announced new enhancements to law enforcement technology. The FBI will be working with Accenture on a $34 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract. The NYPD is launching a new Domain...[read more]

Stop and search has always been a friction point between police and the communities they serve. Indeed several commentators cited it as a potential contributory factor to last year’s riots. The New York equivalent “Stop-and-Frisk” has proved equally contentious with almost 700,000 people questioned on the city’s streets last year...[read more]

The New South Wales Police Force’s , (Australia) eyewatch Imageprogram brings the community and police together to communicate and solve problems, using Social Media – Facebook.[read more]

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To my knowledge, governments and government agencies in Australia have, with a few exceptions, largely ignored the existence and influence of bloggers.[read more]

On Facebook, the tables have been turned on law officers. All those social engineering techniques police investigators do to ferret out pedophiles and gang-bangers with fake profiles in social media are also being used by cop haters to gain intelligence about cops.[read more]

Sometimes it takes a black swan to spur action for improvement. The tragic events of 9/11 as well as Hurricane Katrina certainly were the black swans that spurred action for the nationwide LTE network that’s starting to take shape.[read more]

Sky News likened the email hacking case to the occasions where reporters have had to break the law (in one case buying an Uzi and in another, breaching security at Heathrow) "in the public interest" for the purposes of their investigation.[read more]

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There’s a gap between the technologies that first responders have access to in the field now – and those that are already on the market or will be available in the future[read more]

Facebook has been rolling out the new Timeline for the past several weeks. It will become mandatory by the end of the month. As with all social media, with the new Timeline comes new opportunities, new challenges and new threats (to officer safety). But first, let’s look at the opportunity. Probably the sweetest thing about the new...[read more]