SIMS Software, the leading provider of security information management software to the government and defense industries – and the 2023 Platinum ‘ASTORS’ Award Champion for Best Security Workforce Management Solution, is delighted to announce that Mary Rose McCaffrey has joined the company’s distinguished board of advisors.

SIMS Software‘s board of advisors comprises national security thought leaders and influencers. In her new advisory role, Ms. McCaffrey will provide strategic guidance to the company’s executive management team and help increase awareness of the company’s differentiated product capabilities to the national security community.

SIMS Software is committed to supporting customers’ evolving security needs, supporting government compliance, and developing advanced technologies to help protect the United States and its allies’ critical assets and vital information.

Ms. McCaffrey has an acute understanding of the growing security threats and challenges that affect both the government and private sector. Throughout her career, she has demonstrated expertise in developing security programs, risk and crisis management, program execution, insider threat programs, alliance building, and stakeholder communication to discover innovative solutions.

“Mary Rose had an exemplary career in public service and the defense industrial base, working in critical capacities in the intelligence community and national security,” explains Michael Struttmann, CEO and President of SIMS Software.

“We are incredibly fortunate to have her on board as a company advisor, bringing her wealth of knowledge and expertise in our space.”

“She will provide significant value-add to our product roadmap and customer base.”

“I am very excited to join the SIMS Software board of advisors,” added Ms. McCaffrey.

“I have seen firsthand how SIMS has delivered innovative technology to harness data and enable mission solutions. SIMS Software is a crucial partner to the defense and national security community.”

Ms. McCaffrey was the Vice President of Security for the Northrop Grumman Corporation for seven years, enabling personnel and security to meet customers’ ever-evolving needs worldwide within the defense, aeronautics, space, and cyberspace verticals. She protected their employees, facilities, and proprietary and sensitive information. She received the ISOS Resilience Award for creating a world-class crisis management organization during her tenure.

Before her time at Northrop Grumman, Ms. McCaffrey held an extensive career at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), spanning over thirty years, culminating with her appointment as the first female Director of Security. She held numerous assignments across the Intelligence Community, the Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of the Navy, the National Reconnaissance Organization (NRO), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in senior security positions.

At the NRO, she combined the counterintelligence and security organizations into one entity to better serve the agency’s mission. At the ODNI, she participated in the creation of the original ODNI structure in 2003. Her exceptional leadership and groundbreaking professional accomplishments have made her widely recognized as a role model and trailblazer for women within national security.

Ms. McCaffrey has a bachelor’s degree from St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT. She has completed numerous leadership programs, including the Kellogg School at Northwestern University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and government leadership programs.

She has received numerous awards, including the DCIA’s Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal in June 2017, the Presidential Rank Award in October 2015, the National Intelligence Reform Medal in November 2008, and the National Reconnaissance Leadership Award in 2006.

She is currently on the Board of Advisors for the Council on Intelligence Issues (CII),  and is the President of the SIGNA Society, a CIA retiree association. She has served on numerous boards, including the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) Board of Advisors and the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) Security Policy and Reform, and was a member of the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), National Defense Industry Association (NDIA), and the American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS).

Other distinguished members of the SIMS board of advisors include Dr. Kathleen Kiernan, President of NEC National Security Systems (NSS), and Major General William J. Walker, USA (Retired).

In addition to being named the 2023 Platinum ‘ASTORS’ Award Champion for Best Security Workforce Management Solution, SIMS Software took home the Gold for Best Threat Intelligence Solution for its SIMS Insider Threat Tool and a prestigious Extraordinary Leadership and Innovation Award in the 2023 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security, Public Safety, and Government Excellence Awards Program.

SIMS Software allows security professionals to develop secure and compliant operational efficiencies through a centralized data management system.

For over 40 years, SIMS Software has been the leading provider of security information management software to the world’s most renowned government agencies, defense contractors, high technology giants, academic institutions, and research facilities.

SIMS Software helps security professionals centralize dispersed data sources to achieve operational efficiencies, government compliance, risk mitigation, and visibility across their security domain.

To learn more, please visit www.SIMSsoftware.com.

SIMS Software Takes Triple Awards in 2023 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards

American Security, Today’s Annual ‘ASTORS’ Awards, is the preeminent U.S. Homeland Security Awards Program, and now entering its Ninth Year, continues to recognize industry leaders of Physical and Border Security, Cybersecurity, Emergency Preparedness – Management and Response, Law Enforcement, First Responders, as well as federal, state and municipal government agencies in the acknowledgment of their outstanding efforts to Keep our Nation Secure.

SIMS Software

Best Security Workforce Management Solution

• • • SIMS (Security Information Management System)

• SIMS Software is the leading industrial security information management software provider to some of the world’s most renowned government agencies, defense contractors, high technology giants, academic institutions, and research facilities.

• For 40 years, its flagship product, Security Information Management System (SIMS), has been the most trusted solution on the market to protect classified and high-value information.

• As the role of security professional continues to transform with increased responsibilities, evolving compliance requirements, and multifaceted, aggressive threats towards their organization, having a complete solution has never been more imperative.

• SIMS Software provides security professionals with powerful management-level metrics and a 360° view of their organization at their fingertips: reducing data calls, allowing for tracking of assets specific to the organizational requirements, and providing on-demand trend analysis for early detection and insider threat prevention.

• Purpose-built, SIMS provides all the features and functionality necessary to run a powerful, paperless industrial security program with a single system of record and includes 17 fully integrated modules for a fully automated 360° view of every physical, virtual, and human asset inside your security domain.

• SIMS is a robust solution that supports the development costs and interoperability issues associated with in-house developed solutions, which are often more expensive and require in-demand IT resources.

• It has been designed to meet the hosting needs of organizations of all sizes and types, offering both on-premises and cloud hosting options. 

• Focused on evolving customer needs and government regulations, SIMS Software combines proven performance, consistent innovation, and unmatched customer service to deliver a uniquely powerful security information management system.

• By equipping security stakeholders with the tools to protect the lifeblood of their organizations, SIMS Software is proud to play a vital role in advancing the interests of our nation and its allies at home and abroad.

• SIMS provides all the features and functionality necessary to run a powerful, paperless industrial security program with a single system of record so that clients can escape the development costs and interoperability issues associated with in-house solutions.

SIMS Software 

Best Threat Intelligence Solution

• SIMS Insider Threat Tool

• The proliferation of insider threats is a complex and persistent challenge for all national security stakeholders. From the surge in super-malicious personas to simple carelessness on the job, insider threats are pervasive and elusive and are increasing at an alarming rate.

• As the leader of industrial security information management for almost four decades, SIMS Software has elevated insider threat detection into a science, providing a fully automated 360° view of every physical, virtual, and human asset inside a security domain.

• Companies often operate in siloed cultures and practices across their organization, which may interfere with information sharing; however, SIMS helps to break down those silos to harmonize data and see the patterns for a unique system-of-record for any compliance program where security operations, cyber security, and other functional areas such as HR and Risk Management can work together, share information and track insider threat cases.

• SIMS includes an Insider Threat Utility that empowers organizations to establish proprietary threat models based on their existing data and the risk indicators that matter most to each unique organization so security professionals can view key metrics across the enterprise, track, and catalog cases, view what was reported, investigated, and adjudicated to help the enterprise reduce risk and spot trends.

• From negligent or disgruntled employees to hostile nation-state actors, the costs and consequences of insider threats can be staggering. SIMS Software offers a strategic opportunity to deliver a genuine ROI for businesses and saves organizations costly expenses by providing security stakeholders the opportunity to deter and mitigate, protect the company brand reputation, and retain customer trust.

• Focused on evolving customer needs and government regulations, SIMS Software combines proven performance, constant innovation, and unmatched customer service to deliver a uniquely powerful security information management system.

• SIMS supports all National Industrial Security Operating Manual (NISPOM), Special Access Programs (SAP), and Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) requirements and equips security stakeholders with the tools to protect the lifeblood of their organizations, speed detection, improve accuracy, and stay ahead of the threat.

• *SIMS Software is also a Returning Premier Sponsor for their Third Consecutive Year and was recognized as an ‘ASTORS’ Awards Champion in their Fourth AST ‘Homeland Security Awards Program.

Nominations are currently being accepted for the 2024 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program at https://americansecuritytoday.com/ast-awards/.

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Homeland Security remains at the forefront of our national conversation as we experience an immigration crisis along our southern border and crime rates that are dramatically higher than before the Pandemic across the United States.

These challenges have become a national priority with an influx of investments in innovative new technologies and systems.

Enter American Security Today, the #1 publication and media platform in the Government Security and Homeland Security fields, with a circulation of over 75,000 readers and many tens of thousands more who visit our AST website at www.americansecuritytoday.com each month.

The pinnacle of the Annual ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program is the Annual ‘ASTORS’ Awards Ceremony Luncheon Banquet, an exclusive, full-course plated meal event in the heart of New York City.

The continually evolving ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security, Public Safety, and Government Excellence Awards Program will highlight the trail of Accomplished Women in Leadership in 2024.

So be on the lookout for exciting upcoming announcements of Speakers, Presenters, Book Signing Opportunities, and Attendees at the 2024 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Presentation Luncheon in November of 2024 in New York City!

In 2023, this exclusive sold-out event featured at ISC East, well over two hundred representatives of law enforcement, public safety, and industry leaders came together to honor the selfless service of those who stand on the front lines – and those who stand beside them – providing the capabilities and technologies to create a safer world for future generations.

Comprehensive collaborations between these private and public sectors have led to the development of innovative intelligence and technologies that serve to protect our Nation.

Steven Dettelbach, Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms (ATF) and Explosives, delivered the keynote address at the 2023 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security and Excellence in Public Safety Awards Ceremony and Banquet Luncheon.

Director Dettelbach spoke with passion on the epidemic of Gun Violence by Illegal Guns taking place across the United States, which results in over 125 deaths daily and impacting generations of families – leaving open chairs at holiday events.

Firearm injuries were the leading case of death for children for the third year in a row, he explained, and have doubled in the U.S. since 2021, levels that are simply intolerable.

Director Dettelbach lauded the strong partnerships with Federal, State, Local, and Tribal Policing that ATF has earned and relies upon to reduce violence and spoke with admiration as a former prosecutor on the selfless sense of mission and drive that is universal across the entire First Responder Community.

The prestigious Annual ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program highlights the most cutting-edge and forward-thinking security solutions coming onto the market today to ensure our readers have the information they need to stay ahead of the competition and keep our Nation safe – one facility, street, and city at a time.

The ‘ASTORS’ was specifically designed to honor distinguished government and vendor solutions that deliver enhanced value, benefit, and intelligence to end-users in a variety of government, homeland security, enterprise, and public safety vertical markets.

(See a few highlights during the 2023 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security and Government Excellence Awards Ceremony and Banquet Luncheon in NYC during ISC East on November 16, 2023. Courtesy of AST, My Pristine Images, and Vimeo.)

AST puts forward the Largest and Most Qualified Circulation in Government with Over 75,000 readers on the Federal, State and Local levels.

AST Digital Publications are distributed to over 75,000 qualified government and homeland security professionals in federal, state, local, and private security sectors.

‘PROTECTING OUR NATION, ONE CITY AT A TIME’

AST Reaches Private and 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 the Government at the federal, state, and local levels, as well as from private firms allied to the 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 and Dams, Bridges and Tunnels, and other potential targets of terrorism.

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

To learn more about ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Award Winners solutions, Be On the LookOut for the 2023 ‘ASTORS’ CHAMPIONS Edition Fully Interactive Magazine – the Best Products of 2023 ‘A Year in Review.’

The Annual CHAMPIONS edition reviews ‘ASTORS’ Award Winning products and programs, highlighting key details on many of the winning firm’s products and services, including video interviews and more.

It will serve as your Go-To Source throughout the year for ‘The Best of 2023 Products and Services’ endorsed by American Security Today and can satisfy your agency’s and/or 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 – to name a few), the 2023 ‘ASTORS’ CHAMPIONS EDITION will have WHAT YOU NEED to Detect, Delay, Respond to, and Mitigate today’s real-time threats in our constantly evolving security landscape.

It will also include featured guest editorial pieces from some of the security industry’s most respected leaders and recognized firms in the 2023 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program.

For more information on All Things American Security Today, as well as the 2024 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program, please contact Michael Madsen, AST Publisher at mmadsen@americansecuritytoday.com.

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