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July/August 2021 Published by ASIS International Open Secrets Threats are evolving, but are corporate security intelligence methods keeping pace? By Mark Ashford CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTUREU PROTECTION AND INCIDENT MANAGEMENT Natural disasters, active assailants, political unrest, crime, and terrorism refl ect the heightened need for coordinated preventive and response efforts and critical incident management. Protecting critical infrastructure demands planning, collaboration, and access to information. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) unifi es security teams, supports the early detection of risk, and aids rapid response and incident closure—enhancing your ability to SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY protect employees, customers, organizational Nearest Facility: 0.2 mi assets, and the public. Total Employees: 23 ASSAULT Nearest Facility: 0.7 mi Total Employees: 35 asis-summer-ad.indd All Pages Reasons to Choose GIS for Your GIS can help your organization with the following: Site Security Operations • Understand your area of operation (AOO)— GIS is a framework for gathering, managing, Protect critical infrastructure with powerful and analyzing data in real time. ArcGIS® software map visualizations and incident data that from Esri integrates many types of data and evolve with your event security needs. security feeds, supports analysis in the context • Design operational pre–plans—Leverage of location, and organizes layers of information a fully integrated framework to guide the using 2D and 3D maps and visualizations. planning, preparation, and execution of security With these unique capabilities, GIS reveals operations for critical incident management. deeper insights into data—such as patterns, • Build a tactical response—Manage incidents relationships, and situations—helping security with adaptable and confi gurable response personnel make smarter, faster decisions.
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