Kansas City is encouraging parade spectators to register for alerts by texting CHIEFSPARADE to 888777.

In each case, text messages may include safety, traffic, weather, and event alerts, including street closures and detours, transit delays, potential disruptions, and updates throughout the day.

The City of Miami also deployed the Everbridge market-leading platform to alert residents, visitors and attendees during the Super Bowl LIV in the event of an emergency, disruption or need to share important information on Sunday.

In the event of a win, San Francisco had also make preparations to utilize the system for their team’s homecoming celebrations.

This is the first time that Everbridge’s platform was used by all three cities involved in the Super Bowl, the host city and the two competing teams.

The annual championship game is watched by more than 100 million viewers worldwide, who tune in to catch the action on the field as well as the prestigious half-time show.

The City of Miami saw over 150,000 fans converge on the city for major events leading up to the game, impacting local roads and businesses, and transportation hubs like Miami International Airport (also an Everbridge customer) and the Metro public transit system.

Everbridge also powers Miami’s emergency alerting system, which is part of the statewide AlertFlorida program.

Everbridge’s Critical Event Management software suite provides one unified platform for monitoring and managing these critical events by creating an integrated view of external threats, using more than 100 different data types, including weather and global risk data.

(Experience how Critical Event Management improves organizational resilience by combining real-time monitoring, automatically correlating threats to your most important assets, anticipating risks, automating response activities, and enabling team collaboration globally. Courtesy of Everbridge and YouTube. Posted on Aug 30, 2019.)

The Everbridge Critical Event Management platform enables security, resilience and IT professionals across any industry to better prepare for – and even avoid – sudden, unexpected incidents.

By combining real-time threat detection, situational awareness and integrated response and collaboration, CEM enables effective communication between responders, staff and all affected parties to ensure employee safety and business continuity.

The Everbridge Critical Event Management platform enables organizations to significantly speed up responses to critical events and improve outcomes by mitigating or eliminating the impact of a threat.

Everbridge’s CEM core capabilities include:

Intelligence

• Proactively assess potential threats before they become critical events with built-in risk data and intelligence.

Correlation

• Align risk events to assets using a dynamic correlation engine that combines static location, expected location and last known location of people and assets.

Orchestration

• Automated workflows ensure that even when you and your team are not watching for threats, the system is doing it for you.

Analytics

• With CEM, metrics are built-in throughout the process to ensure the right action is taken by the right people, at the right time, and to understand how effective actions were and how you can do better in the future.

“In the event of a security threat or major disruption, the Everbridge platform is in place to allow officials to quickly alert locals and visitors to any risk and to communicate an appropriate response,” explains Tracy Reinhold, Chief Security Officer for Everbridge, and former head of the FBI’s intelligence division, where he also served as a Special Agent for over 20 years.

Sunday’s Big Game was only the latest large-scale event to deploy Everbridge’s critical event management platform and keyword-based alerting solution.

The CEM platform has been widely adopted by public safety agencies across the country and around the globe to manage large crowds, most recently by the City of New York for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and New Year’s Eve in Times Square, along with the City of Pasadena for the Rose Parade.

(The Boston Marathon is the oldest annual marathon in the world and one of the most celebrated. 30,000 athletes from around the world gathered in April 2019 to take part in the 123rd running of the prestigious race. To help make the day go smoothly and safely for runners and spectators alike, Everbridge partnered with the Boston Athletic Association to coordinate its vast network of volunteers, including its medical teams. In addition to using the Critical Event Management platform, Everbridge also embedded staff within the BAA’s Operations Center.  Hear from the Boston Athletic Association directly in this brief video about making race day a big success. Courtesy of Everbridge and YouTube. Posted on Aug 2, 2019.)

Everbridge technology was also deployed during last year’s Big Game in Atlanta, the Boston and Philadelphia Marathons, the Pride Parade in San Francisco and elsewhere, and Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

The platform is also regularly used by officials during severe weather situations, including Hurricane Dorian in Florida, the California wildfires, and Cyclone Fani in India.

Everbridge Takes Platinum in 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program 

Everbridge

• Best Mass Notification System – Application

• Everbridge Critical Event Mgmt Platform

• The Everbridge Critical Event Mgmt Platform is a enterprise-wide platform to aggregate risk data, locate people and assets under threat, initiate action and manage incidents, and analyze after-action performance.

• *Everbridge was also recognized in the 2018 and 2017 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Award Programs.

The 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program surpassed expectations with a record number of nominations received from industry leaders and government agencies, and drew over 200 attendees to the ‘ASTORS’ Awards Presentation Banquet – an exclusive gourmet luncheon and networking opportunity which filled to capacity, before having to turn away late registrants.

The event featured an impassioned and compelling keynote address by William J. Bratton, former police commissioner of the New York Police Department (NYPD) twice, the Boston Police Department (BPD), and former chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), as he walked attendees through 50 years of American policing history, the impacts on the communities, and the evolution of critical communication capabilities in our post 9/11 landscape.

Commissioner Bratton, one of the world’s most respected and trusted experts on risk and security issues and Executive Chairman of Teneo Risk a global advisory firm, was recognized as the ‘2019 ‘ASTORS’ Person of the Year’ for his Lifetime of Dedication and Extraordinary Leadership in Homeland Security and Public Safety.

Why the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program?

American Security Today’s comprehensive Annual Homeland Security Awards Program is organized to recognize the most distinguished vendors of physical, IT, port security, law enforcement, and first responders, in acknowledgment of their outstanding efforts to ‘Keep our Nation Secure, One City at a Time.’

Over 200 distinguished guests representing Federal, State and Local Governments, and Industry Leading Corporate Firms, gathered from across North America, Europe and the Middle East to be honored among their peers in their respective fields which included: 

• The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)
• United States Marine Corps
• The Federal Protective Service (FPS)
• Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
• United States Postal Inspection Service
• DHS S&T 
• United States Marshals Service (USMS)
• The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Police (PAPD)
• The Department of Justice (DOJ)
• The New York State Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services (NYS DHSES)
• United States Border Patrol
• AlertMedia, Ameristar Perimeter Security, Attivo Networks, Automatic Systems, Bellevue University, BriefCam, Canon U.S.A., CornellCookson, Drone Aviation, FLIR Systems, Hanwha Techwin, HID Global, IPVideo Corp., Konica Minolta Business Solutions, LenelS2, ManTech, Regroup Mass Notifications, SafeLogic, SolarWinds, Senstar, ShotSpotter, Smiths Detection, TCOM LP, Trackforce, Verint, and More!

Why American Security Today?

The traditional security marketplace has long been covered by a host of publications putting forward the old school basics to what is Today – a fast changing security landscape.

The traditional security marketplace has long been covered by a host of publications putting forward the old school basics to what is Today – a fast changing security landscape.

American Security Today is uniquely focused on the broader Homeland Security & Public Safety marketplace with over 75,000 readers at the Federal, State and local levels of government as well as firms allied to government.

American Security Today brings forward a fresh compelling look and read with our customized digital publications that hold readers eyes throughout the story with cutting edge editorial that provides solutions to their challenges.

Harness the Power of the Web – with our 100% Mobile Friendly Publications

The AST Digital Publications is distributed to over 75,000 qualified government and homeland security professionals in federal, state and local levels.

‘PROTECTING OUR NATION, ONE CITY AT A TIME’

AST Reaches both Private & Public Experts, essential to meeting these new challenges.

Today’s new generation of public safety and security experts need real-time knowledge to deal with domestic and international terrorism, lone wolf attacks, unprecedented urban violence, shifts in society, culture and media bias – making it increasingly difficult for Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, First Responders, Military and Private Security Professionals to implement coordinated security measures to ensure national security and improve public safety.

These experts are from Government at the federal, state and local level as well as from private firms allied to government.

AST provides a full plate of topics in our AST Monthly Magazine Editions, AST Website and AST Daily News Alerts, covering 23 Vital Sectors such as Access Control, Perimeter Protection, Video Surveillance/Analytics, Airport Security, Border Security, CBRNE Detection, Border Security, Ports, Cybersecurity, Networking Security, Encryption, Law Enforcement, First Responders, Campus Security, Security Services, Corporate Facilities, and Emergency Response among others.

AST has Expanded readership into integral Critical Infrastructure audiences such as Protection of Nuclear Facilities, Water Plants & Dams, Bridges & Tunnels, and other potential targets of terrorism.

Other areas of concern include Transportation Hubs, Public Assemblies, Government Facilities, Sporting & Concert Stadiums, our Nation’s Schools & Universities, and Commercial Business Destinations – all enticing targets due to the large number of persons and resources clustered together.

To learn more about the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Award Winners solutions, please go to the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Championship Edition Fully Interactive Magazine – the Best Products of 2019 ‘A Year in Review’.

The ‘ASTORS’ Champion Edition is published annually and includes a review of the ‘ASTORS’ Award Winning products and programs, highlighting key details on many of the winning firms products and services, includes video interviews and more.

It is your Go-To source throughout the year for ‘The Best of 2019 Products and Services‘ endorsed by American Security Today, and can satisfy your agency’s and organization’s most pressing Homeland Security and Public Safety needs.

From Physical Security (Access Control, Critical Infrastructure, Perimeter Protection and Video Surveillance Cameras and Video Management Systems), to IT Security (Cybersecurity, Encryption, Data Storage, Anti-Malware and Networking Security – Just to name a few), the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ CHAMPIONS EDITION will have what you need to Detect, Delay, Respond to, and Mitgate today’s real-time threats in our constantly evolving security landscape.

It also includes featured guest editorial pieces from some of the security industry’s most respected leaders, and recognized firms in the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program.