Case Study: Cambria County 9-1-1 prevents malware emergencies with Malwarebytes Endpoint Security

Cambria County 9-1-1 Prevents Malware Emergencies

Cambria County 9-1-1, which provides dispatch and emergency communications for 63 municipalities and 144,000 residents in Pennsylvania, needed to protect its mission‑critical phones, radios, computers, and dispatch systems from malware that could disrupt emergency services. Although the agency had firewall and antivirus protections, staff were spending significant time manually updating and scanning endpoints and public workstations were routinely exposed to PUPs and other risky software.

The county deployed Malwarebytes Endpoint Security (Anti‑Malware, Anti‑Exploit, and Management Console) and used the console’s push‑client to cover all endpoints in just hours. Automated scans, updates, and centralized management reduced administrative effort (saving about a day per month), caused minimal user impact, and blocked threats in the wild—detecting and stopping 11 Java shell payload attempts within two weeks—restoring confidence in the agency’s defenses.

Cambria County

Dan Blackburn

Operations Supervisor