Michael Coppola

CJIS Offers Comprehensive Data Protection for Law Enforcement Agencies

A resident of Totowa, New Jersey, Michael Coppola is the former chief of police for the Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department, and is the founder and president of CJIS Solutions. In his current role as president, Michael Coppola has substantially grown the organization into a half-million-dollar revenue company without external investment. Mr. Coppola’s organization provides a range of data management and technology solutions, including data backup protection that complies with the CJIS Security policy.

The comprehensive data protection services available through CJIS include built-in, two-factor authentication, retention policies, FIPS 140-2 encryption, and data destruction when required. This extensive range of services provides clients with a reliable and safe level of data protection required by law enforcement organizations across the nation.

CJIS also offers on-site data protection in combination with virtual server images, replication completed off site, hardware images, additional backup jobs, data deduplication and compression, and rapid operation restoration when hardware fails. Products offered at CJIS also identify ransomware-caused anomalies.

Without sacrificing compliance, CJIS can use their cloud environment or appropriate appliances for data backup to test a server that has failed. Clients never need to worry about a server being down for repair, since CJIS will maintain data processes while the repair is in progress.

What is Data Destruction?

Skilled law enforcement leader Michael Coppola leverages more than 20 years of field experience to lead CJIS Solutions as founder and president. Through his company, Michael Coppola and his team provide law enforcement professionals with CJIS-compliant solutions, from cloud computing and cloud hosting to data destruction services.

All businesses rely on data of some sort, either as a record of their internal processes and financials or customer contracts. When this data is physical, destroying it is more straight-forward: companies or individuals can simply shred the documents to destroy. But this isn’t the case when the data is digital. Unless digital data is properly destroyed, it can be leaked or stolen, thus resulting in a loss of revenue, loss of customers, or many other negative consequences.

Destroying digital data involves the permanent erasure of information contained on an electronic device. This does not mean simply deleting a file. While deleting a file does remove it from the computer, it often remains on the hard drive or in another storage area. People can often still access or recover this information. The same is true even if the hard drive or other physical technology is destroyed. In some situations, data stored on a broken or smashed hard drive can be recovered with enough effort.

Rather than relying on these methods, companies must destroy the data and ensure it is non-recoverable before any technological component is sold or ruined. Usually, this involves data sanitation, a process that leaves highly sensitive data irrecoverable via data erasure, physical destruction, cryptographic erasure, or a combination of the three methods.

An Introduction to Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS)

A graduate of the 201st municipal class for police officers from the New Jersey State Police Academy, Michael Coppola serves as the president of CJIS Solutions, the first Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS)-compliant cloud hosting company in the United States. As such, Michael Coppola has successfully managed the company’s operations while directing its focus on, among other things, CJIS policy.

A comprehensive and precise set of cybersecurity rules, CJIS policy serves national interests by protecting national security. Government entities such as law enforcement agencies and companies tasked with managing sensitive information of the United States Department of Justice must ensure that they comply with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s CJIS policies in their wireless networking and data encryption activities.

The FBI’s CJIS policies encompass the standards and implementation requirements of 13 areas of security policy. To determine whether network access is CJIS compliant across all 13 of these areas, a CJIS compliance checklist can be used.

Miranda Rights and Custody

Michael Coppola serves as the president of CJIS Solutions in New Jersey. Before this position, he steadily rose through the ranks at the Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department and held titles of Detective, Detective Sergeant, Lieutenant, and Chief of Police. During his time with the department, Michael Coppola conducted thousands of arrests.

Some people incorrectly assume that they have not been arrested correctly if they are not read their Miranda Rights (also called Miranda Warning). Miranda Rights are only required when there is an arrest AND an interrogation or questioning. Therefore, you could technically be arrested and not read your Miranda Rights should the office feel that he has no need to question someone. However, any evidence police officers obtain from the suspect during an interrogation cannot be admitted in court unless the Miranda Rights have been administered. The only exception to this requirement is the Spontaneous Utterance test. This is when a suspect provides information before an officer has had a reasonable chance to read the Miranda Rights.

For instance, if police officers obtain an admission of guilt from a suspect during an interrogation, that admission cannot be used in the suspect’s trial unless he or she was read the Miranda warning before the interrogation. However, the Miranda warning must be given only when a person is in police custody. Being in police custody means that the person cannot leave the police department, the scene of the crime, or any other location where police are holding the person.

Individuals not in police custody do not have to be read the Miranda warning even if the police decide to arrest them later. Any information the person shares when not in custody can be used in a trial even though no Miranda warning was given.