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County to consider Genesys after mass-alert vendor data breach
Summary
Staff told commissioners a data breach in the county’s current mass-alert system disrupted IPAWS access and recommended moving to Genesys, which offers geographic targeting, a public app and shared cost with Lexington and Thomasville. Board agreed to place the contract on the upcoming Monday agenda.
Davidson County staff on Jan. 8 recommended switching the county’s public-alert system to Genesys following a recent data breach in the existing vendor’s platform that interrupted emergency-notification capability.
An emergency-communications staff member told commissioners the county’s present system lost access to IPAWS — the federal…
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