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Rave Mobile Safety announces record first quarter with growth across industries


FRAMINGHAM, Mass.—Rave Mobile Safety (Rave), the critical communication and collaboration platform customers count on when it matters most, has announced record growth in the first quarter, with 95 percent of its business deals resulting from clients upgrading from competitive systems.

The trend underscores Rave’s success over the last 18 years helping community and business leaders prepare better, respond faster, and communicate more effectively during emergencies, in crisis situations, and planned events.

Rave’s stellar first quarter achievements come on the heels of 12 consecutive years of revenue growth and demonstrates that a wide array of organizations and businesses are increasingly relying on Rave’s easy-to-use technological solutions to communicate with key stakeholders before, during, and after adverse events.

“The challenges that state and local governments, public safety officials, and corporate leaders are facing today – whether it’s a global pandemic, natural disaster, hostile event, or any other incident that requires integrated strategies and outreach to key audiences – is of the utmost importance to those charged with safety, security, and business continuity,” Rave CEO Todd Piett said. “Rave is playing an active role in helping our clients improve their ability to respond to time-critical incidents and life safety events, as demonstrated by the number of customers choosing to replace their previous safety solutions with an upgrade to Rave.”

California Chooses Rave for Statewide Mass Notification

In February, Rave was selected by Atos Public Safety, LLC (Atos) as the Next Generation 911 (NG911) Alert and Warning System platform for the state of California. Rave was awarded the business, replacing a competitive emergency notification solution, by offering the nation’s most populous state the enhanced flexibility and configurability required for large scale events including earthquakes, wildfires, mudslides, tsunamis, civil unrest, and major sporting events. California is the ninth statewide deployment of Rave solutions.

Panic Button Use Cases Expand into the Public Sector

Rave Panic Button is currently used in K-12 schools across North…

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The Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Cyberattack — Part 2 – rAVe [PUBS]


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What motivates a hacker or group of cyberattackers? The answer is typically money.

For each column in this series, rAVe writer Paul Konikowski takes a deeper dive into a recent security event or data breach, shedding light on supply chain vulnerabilities, infrastructure and cyber-physical security.

The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in May of 2021 caused many gas shortages. It also resulted in an Executive Order from the Biden administration to “improve the nation’s cybersecurity and protect federal government networks.” The EO press release noted, “public and private sector entities increasingly face sophisticated malicious cyber activity from both nation-state actors and cyber criminals.” But what motivates these attackers?

Hollywood movies and television series have long depicted hackers as teenagers huddled in a basement or dorm room, hacking into systems to change their grades or just to cause a little mayhem. The mischief-minded nerdy teens or collegiate hacker groups do exist in real life, for sure. But those stories are rare, and the impact of hacks by mischievous “script kiddies” is usually very minor. It’s more of competition at that age. While the pride of “cracking” a device or “pwning” someone is a real feeling among cybercriminals, most don’t do it for fun. Instead, most cyberattackers are motivated by money. Let’s look at the Colonial Pipeline as an example.

On May 7, 2021, a group of cybertattackers known as DarkSide used ransomware to attack the business networks of Colonial Pipeline, and the pipeline management quickly shut down the pipeline systems too.

A few days later, the Darkside website hosted a statement about the motivation of the attack, which said:

“We are apolitical, we do not participate in geopolitics, [you] do not need to tie us with a defined government and look for … our motives… Our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society. From today we introduce moderation and check each company that our partners want to encrypt to avoid social consequences in the future.” 

Granted, if this statement came from criminals, it could be a partial or complete lie. But for the…

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