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Public Safety in the Cloud: Agency Briefing Series

This series gives agencies short, practical briefings on the major issues that shape public safety cloud decisions: mission alignment, CAD, shared responsibility, availability, disaster recovery, connectivity, interfaces, security, contracts, readiness, and what good looks like.

The articles are adapted from themes in Public Safety in the Cloud: What Agencies Need to Understand Before Making the Move and are designed for agency leadership, operations, IT, procurement, legal, records, corrections, and vendor evaluation conversations.

Series Articles

Read in order or jump to the topic most relevant to the conversation your agency is having now.

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The briefing series is a web companion to the broader book and the practical readiness resources available from Public Safety Cloud Standards.

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Series Index

  1. Public Safety in the Cloud: The Cloud Is Not the Mission
  2. Public Safety in the Cloud: Why Agencies Are Moving
  3. Public Safety in the Cloud: Why CAD Is Not Just Another Application
  4. Public Safety in the Cloud: From Local Control to Shared Responsibility
  5. Public Safety in the Cloud: The Fear of Losing Control
  6. Public Safety in the Cloud: Availability, Uptime, and the Meaning of Down
  7. Public Safety in the Cloud: RTO, RPO, and Disaster Recovery
  8. Public Safety in the Cloud: Connectivity Becomes Mission-Critical
  9. Public Safety in the Cloud: Interfaces and Hidden Complexity
  10. Public Safety in the Cloud: Security, CJIS, Auditability, and Trust
  11. Public Safety in the Cloud: Upgrades, Patching, and Change Management
  12. Public Safety in the Cloud: The Human Side of the Transition
  13. Public Safety in the Cloud: Procurement and Contract Review
  14. Public Safety in the Cloud: How Agencies Should Prepare Before Moving
  15. Public Safety in the Cloud: What Good Looks Like