Swan Island Networks – Leveraging high-trust information services that help keep people, assets, information, and critical infrastructure safe

Situational awareness is mandatory for the modern security professional. Understanding where threats originate and their vector relative to your principals and assets helps companies mitigate risk and protect their operations. In the past, corporate security teams relied heavily on deterrence, hoping that high enough walls, cameras in the right places, and a visible guard force were enough to prevent crime, violence, and other security threats. Awareness was limited, and the situational awareness techniques companies and security providers used relied on a relatively narrow view of the threat landscape. Now, however, situational awareness plays an essential role in helping companies manage risk and resources. Situationally aware businesses anticipate threats and navigate challenges more deftly, creating optimal conditions to pursue their missions. Knowing how to spot threats early and provide common-sense security advice will help keep people safe no matter where they are. One of the significant advantages of the best situational awareness software tools is that they make real-time threat detection and report-making a reality. By integrating security systems that matter to your organization, your teams gets one view with all of the critical information so they can effectively detect and respond to threats with confidence.

Swan Island Networks is one such firm that provides rapid situational awareness solutions and services for security and business continuity teams in corporate enterprises. Swan’s cloud-based software is ideal for public/private resilience, information sharing initiatives, and integrates easily with other platforms. The company has been building security and situational awareness tools since 2002. The top physical security companies in the world are using its technology.

TX360^® Platform: Global Threat Monitoring Customized for Your Enterprise and Teams

The threats have been building; Houston is barely in recovery/cleanup mode, IRMA is threatening the Florida and the East Coast, the West is on fire, and Kim Jung Un is threatening. All the long term threats remain; earthquake, pandemic, cyber and many others. Having a solid method of monitoring these and other threats is critical to your organization, and can give you precious time to prepare and mitigate your risks, and better information if response and recovery is inevitable. This capability has to be a 24×7 capability, and integrate into your other capabilities; incident response, mass notification, crisis communication. Information sharing with other regional organizations for geographically oriented threats, or industry sector for vertical threats is also an important element that can enhance your risk posture.

TX360 is a powerful enterprise SaaS platform that can tailor intelligence for all aspects of your situational awareness and information sharing needs. Custom alerts and dashboards can be enabled without programming, and can tap into Swan Island's library (4000+) of information channels from around the globe. Protecting a modern business can be overwhelming. So the company designed a world-class situational awareness platform to streamline threat monitoring for global security teams. Respond to threats in real time, so you can keep your business running and assets secure. The full suite of cloud-based intelligence tools provides 360° situational awareness, threat monitoring and smart alerting at the enterprise level. TX Global Smart Alerts provide timely and succinct coverage of global security and risk events delivered to email or text message. Alerts span a range of worldwide hazards from current crises in global health (COVID-19/Coronavirus) to severe weather, hurricanes, wildfires, civil unrest, and acts of terrorism. Alerts are also available through the TX Global web portal. In the Smart Alert Queue, alerts are sorted in reverse chronology and can be viewed by map or list view and further filtered by region and topic. TX360 is an all-hazards threat monitoring and situational awareness service that enables highly secure and targeted delivery of critical information to security professionals and corporate leaders, often in a Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) setting.

Every TX Global subscriber has access to a comprehensive, curated collection of COVID-19/Coronavirus information on their crisis monitoring dashboards. Tier 1 includes a set of basic dashboards covering major global incidents, as well as a North America regional view, and official government travel updates worldwide. Tier 2 and 3 subscribers can unlock additional dashboards and features, including geospatial visualization of up to 50 assets. Topical Dashboards are available for Government-Issued Travel Advice, Aviation, Health, Severe Weather, and more. Key event Dashboards monitor specific incidents and issues of concern such as COVID-19/Coronavirus, hurricanes, wildfires, etc. Alerts are issued continuously by the unique hybrid publication model, from their analyst duration process and their machine automation alerting system. The number will vary based on the current conditions in the world and the number of feeds you have selected to subscribe to.

The Visionary Leader Upfront

Pete O’Dell is the Chief Executive Officer of Swan Island Networks. Pete is a seasoned business executive in technology, security, and software. Before joining Swan Island, he served as the Chief Operating Officer for a number of high growth startups and was president of Autodesk Retail Products. He is the author of Silver Bullets (interoperable data) and Cyber 24/7: Risks, Leadership, Sharing. His new book, Global Shared Resilience, is slated for publication in Q1 of 2021, but will likely be delayed by the pandemic and his continual procrastination. He is a poor golfer, avid fly fisherman and volunteers with www.fishingcommunity.org, a nonprofit focused on veterans and their families. He’s also an NCR InfraGard member.