Articles from our team on the technology issues that matter today — security, infrastructure, and practical guidance for businesses, municipalities, and schools.
An Idaho district lost two days of school last week because its cameras, electronic locks and HVAC were reachable on the network. Almost no small agency has answered the question that actually closed those buildings.
Three Microsoft dates decide whether your utility billing, records and work orders are still patchable. Two have already passed. Here is what each way out actually costs — and the one door that does not exist for a lot of small offices.
CJIS compliance is written as though your agency does it alone. Most of the controls that get an agency written up are implemented by someone else’s technician, over someone else’s remote-access tool.
The FCC has asked whether E-Rate should be narrowed, limited to rural areas, or ended. Comments close October 13. Here is what is actually on the table, why the rural line may not fall where you assume, and the four other E-Rate dates in the next four weeks.
Three of this year's worst disruptions to local government didn't start on a single city network. They started at a software vendor. That changes what “we're covered” has to mean.
Georgia is near the top of AT&T’s copper retirement list. The lines most likely to go dark aren’t the ones on your desk—they’re the fire alarms, elevator phones, and other critical systems nobody has physically looked at in fifteen years.
A California city declared a state of emergency last month after a cyberattack took down its dispatch systems. We performed the same maneuver for a Georgia county on a planned weekday. The difference between those two days is the whole subject of this article.
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