Everbridge Emergency Alerts Powered to Keep Citizens Safe (Multi-Video)
Everbridge, a global leader in critical event management software that helps keep people safe and businesses running, and a Double Award Winner in the 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program, has announced its mass...
ShotSpotter Returns to Compete in 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Awards (Multi-Video)
In urban communities across the country, gun violence has become one of the most critical challenges facing our cities.
At stake are public safety and public health, with cities seeing improvements increasingly...
LifeWay Christian Resources Upgrade Access Control for Nashville HQ
LifeWay Christian Resources, one of the world's largest providers of Christian resources, recently constructed a new building to house its Nashville, TN headquarters (HQ), with the objective of reducing square footage...
Axon Partners with CPD for Virtual Reality (VR) Autism Empathy Training
Axon is partnering with the Chicago Police Department (Chicago PD, or CPD) to pilot Axon's new virtual reality (VR) empathy-based training.
Chicago PD, a Major Cities Chiefs Association member, is the first...
SAM XT Extremity Tourniquet Recommended by DoD CoTCCC
SAM Medical, a leader in the pre-hospital, trauma care market, is pleased to announce the SAM XT Extremity Tourniquet (SAM XT) has been recommended by the U.S. Department of Defense's Committee...
11 Days. 3 Mass Shootings. 3 Heroes. Why Some Risk their Lives for Others?
May 9, 2019 – In Breaking News – USA TODAY
As shots fired inside a synagogue outside San Diego last month, Lori Gilbert Kaye, 60, put herself in between the shooter and the rabbi and died...
InformaCast Fusion Competes in the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program
Singlewire Software, a leading mass notification technology developer recognized in the 2018 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Awards Program, is pleased to announce the company's InformaCast Fusion hybrid cloud notification platform has been nominated...
The Value of Training – ‘ASTORS’ Award Winning True Security Design
By Joseph Pangaro, CPM, CSO
True Security Design, recently recognized as the 2018 Gold Award Winner of the Annual ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program for Best Risk Analysis Methodology, is a provider of...
UNCC Shooting Victim ‘Saved Lives’ by Tackling Gunman, Police Say
May 1, 2019 – In Breaking News – The Charlotte Observer
A gunman killed two people when he opened fire on Tuesday at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
One of those he allegedly murdered has been described by police as a "hero" because of...
Illinois Senate Votes to Allow Barricades in School Classrooms
The Illinois state Senate passed a bill in early April that will allow schools to add barricades to classroom doors, making it the fourth state in the Midwest to allow barricades,...