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Practice 04 / Public safety resilience

Public Safety & SLED Infrastructure Resilience

Keep an administrative problem out of the dispatch room.

By Braxton BarberFee-only / Buyer-side / Vendor-neutral
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The operational risk

Keep an administrative problem out of the dispatch room.

Shared administration, inherited remote access and undocumented dependencies can connect a municipal office outage to mission-critical dispatch operations.

What vendors tell you

“The modernization project includes security.”

What the buyer needs to establish

Make the responsibility visible.

A project label does not establish the boundaries between CAD, call handling, municipal IT and outside maintenance access.

The B3 deliverable

What you receive

  • An ECC / PSAP dependency map spanning call handling, CAD, connectivity and third-party support.
  • A review of administrative-to-dispatch access paths and separation evidence.
  • An NG9-1-1 transition risk register and change-acceptance checklist.
  • A procurement review of security obligations, service boundaries and cooperative purchasing assumptions.
  • A continuity tabletop and handoff pack with operational owners and escalation contacts.

Who this is for

Emergency communications leadership, municipal IT directors and public-sector procurement teams.

Evidence needed to begin

  • Approved network and dependency diagrams
  • Support and carrier agreements
  • RFP or cooperative purchasing documents
  • Continuity and escalation plans

Acceptance criteria

A result you can inspect.

Mission-critical dependencies and vendor access paths have owners; readiness gates and outstanding risks are visible before project acceptance.

Show us the approved evidence that municipal administration and vendor support cannot bypass the dispatch network’s access boundaries.
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Roles and boundaries

No live emergency-system testing occurs without an explicitly authorized method, maintenance window and operational safeguards. This service is not a CJIS certification.

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