Articles Tagged with ''Situational Awareness''

Existing infrastructure and new technology is helping the UCF emergency operations center to support the school through wins, losses and trying times.

American Airlines once received a tweet from someone with the Twitter handle @QueenDemextriax_, reading in part, “I’m part of Al Qaida and on June 1st I’m gonna do something really big.”

This line of cameras provides constant 360-degree situational awareness, and is available in indoor and outdoor versions, also with indoor mini and indoor concealed options for smaller venues.

Telecom facilities are home to a number of critical and highly valuable assets, and given the sensitive nature of a large number of these locations, it’s vital that telecoms be able to recognize potential threats as soon as possible.

With data production expected to be 44 times greater in 2020 than in 2009, city and public safety officials must be able to pull relevant information from multiple systems and apply big data analysis to make sense of it all.

The days of the CMO using monitoring tools only to track global brand mentions and sentiment are long gone.

To fully manage security operations, security leaders must place a high premium on preventive intelligence.

Editor's note: the following is a report courtesy of SDM Magazine, http://www.sdmmag.com/articles/91827-us-stadium-security-expert-reacts-to-paris-attacks

When terrorists attacked several locations in Paris last Friday night — including the Stade de France stadium where a friendly soccer match was taking place — U.S. venues immediately took notice.

In the last decade, security has become a multi-platform, multi-channel concern for businesses. Gone are the days when the only threats to a bank could be warded off by an armed guard standing in front of a bank vault to intimidate and dissuade potential robbers.

If you walk into most command centers, the first thing you’ll see at the front of the room is a video wall outfitted with an array of monitors.