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Pulaski County votes to replace Code Red with Rave for emergency alerts after cyberattack
Summary
The Pulaski County Fiscal Court voted Jan. 9 to pursue replacing its Code Red emergency-notification provider with Rave (owned by Motorola) after a Nov. 11 cyberattack left vendor data months out of date; staff said Rave could have the county live within about two weeks and offered a five-year price lock.
The Pulaski County Fiscal Court voted Jan. 9 to pursue switching the county’s emergency notification vendor from Code Red to Rave, following a November cyberattack on Code Red that disrupted access and left the vendor’s data substantially out of date.
Chris Mason, who together with IT lead Jason Hancock is the county custodian for the Code Red system, told the court the vendor experienced a cyberattack on Nov. 11 that prompted the federal alert gateway iPAWS to pull the vendor’s certificate, leaving the county without reliable alerting for about 60 days.…
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