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(Editor's Note: This article first appeared in GSN's "Essential Guide to Disaster Preparedness," which accompanied our November 2010 print issue.)

(Editor's Note: This article first appeared in GSN's "Essential Guide to Disaster Preparedness," which accompanied our November 2010 print issue.)

For many businesses, laptops are one of the most important tools in ensuring employee productivity, both in and away from the office. In the public sector, laptops are also an important productivity tool, but the data residing on them can become a liability if the laptop is lost during a natural or manmade disaster. 

(Editor's Note: This article first appeared in GSN's "Essential Guide to Disaster Preparedness," which accompanied our November 2010 print issue.)

Do you use social media to communicate with your public? Have you updated your disaster preparedness communications plan to include social media? If not, add that to your priority ‘To Do’ list!

(Editor's Note: This article first appeared in GSN's "Essential Guide to Disaster Preparedness," which accompanied our November 2010 print issue.)

When disaster strikes, every minute counts for emergency responders arriving on the scene. Amid the volatility and chaos inherent to most natural and man-made disasters, first responders must have reliable mobile computing and communications technologies to control the environment and quickly triage victims in need of medical attention.

(Editor's Note: This article first appeared in GSN's "Essential Guide to Disaster Preparedness," which accompanied our November 2010 print issue.)

Are you ready for a crisis? When a disaster strikes and terrestrial connections fail, it is critical for first responders and other emergency personnel to share information with each other and with key decision makers. 

(Editor's Note: This article first appeared in GSN's "Essential Guide to Disaster Preparedness," which accompanied our November 2010 print issue.)

Last winter’s “Snowmageddon” set weather records across the mid-Atlantic region. The fresh memories of roofs collapsing under heavy snow, thousands affected by power outages and the shutdown of government agencies due to road closures, may leave many government officials wondering what they can do to keep their agency functioning during the coming winter months. 

(Editor's Note: This article first appeared in GSN's "Essential Guide to Video Surveillance," which accompanied our September 2010 print issue.)

(Editor's Note: This article first appeared in GSN's "Essential Guide to Video Surveillance," which accompanied our September 2010 print issue.)

In recent months, security at the U.S.-Mexico border has become a highly contested issue, as drugs, weapons and illegal immigrants are smuggled across the border every day. Conflict between federal and state governments has arisen, and a new federal border security/immigration reform plan is in the works.

(Editor's Note: This article first appeared in GSN's "Essential Guide to Video Surveillance," which accompanied our September 2010 print issue.)

It was in the early 1990’s that many started examining the possibilities of using the Internet for sending video images from one point to another. But, as with all great ideas that are approached too soon, it was all “Pie-in-the-Sky.”

(Editor's Note: This article first appeared in GSN's "Essential Guide to Video Surveillance," which accompanied our September 2010 print issue.)