TIES for Microsoft CityNext Next-Generation Situational Awareness

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1 BROCHURE A CLOSER LOOK AT! TIES for Microsoft CityNext Next-Generation Situational Awareness

2 INTRODUCTION! TIES for Microsoft CityNext (TMCN) is an all-hazard threat monitoring and situation awareness service that enables highly secure targeted delivery of critical information to security professionals and corporate leaders. Identify and manage the most relevant emerging risks and threats with a full suite of intelligence management tools. Deliver the precise information your people need, when they need it, using Smart Alerts. TMCN is a highly scalable and robust platform, operating on the Microsoft Azure cloud with 99.95% uptime. Read on to find out how we can help your enterprise identify threats and respond to them more effectively. Distilling the flood of information! into actionable intelligence.! 2

3 MASTER THE KEY ELEMENTS OF SITUATIONAL AWARENESS.! A 4-PILLAR, 360 DEGREE PLATFORM Cities face more threats than ever. Finding and acting on relevant intelligence is vital.! TMCN streamlines the extraction and delivery from around the world, or down the street.! 1 Intelligence Channels Gather late-breaking intelligence from an expansive gallery of highly filtered, trusted sources or import and manipulate your own feeds. 2 Smart Alerts Deliver only relevant alerts and updates to concerned parties, tailored to each recipient s authorization, preference and profile. 3 Dashboards Monitor relevant threats in real-time on a common operating picture dashboard. Determine an incident s proximity to your assets. 4 Secure Communities Create trusted networks of alert recipients and collaborators to share sensitive information within and across organizations. 3

4 NEWS & ALERTS FROM TRUSTED ORGANIZATIONS.! INTELLIGENCE CHANNELS WITH SMART FILTERING Why scour the web looking for relevant threats when we ve already done that for you? Browse the world s biggest gallery of news, updates and alerts sources or add your own.! Choose from thousands of Channels in our public gallery or add premium Intelligence Channels from 3 rd party vendors. Create your own Channels from any number of data structures: CAP, RSS, Atom, social networks, emergency dispatch data, etc. Aggregate Channels into single feeds to be filtered and displayed in Dashboards. Filter feeds by Boolean keyword, location, asset proximity, CAP properties, and more! Pipe your filtered Channels out to any endpoint with a dedicated API. 4

5 MAXIMUM RELEVANCE. MINIMUM NOISE.! SMART ALERTS When disaster strikes, getting the right information to the right people is crucial. You need an alerting system that can accommodate a wide range of interests and delivery preferences.! Manage recipients individually or in groups, with easy opt-out or mandatory opt-in. Allow recipients to define their own contact preferences, asset-associations and interests, then create alerts that respect those settings. Send alerts via , SMS, text-to-voice, social networks, and more. Facilitate two-way communication: subscribers can receive and publish alerts. Leverage Swan Island s decade of experience in developing the policies, procedures, and best practices of Smart Alerting. 5

6 MAINTAIN A HOLISTIC VIEW OF THREATS AND INCIDENTS.! DASHBOARDS Sometimes the best way to triage an incident is to get a bird s eye view. Visualize threats proximity to your assets in a common operating picture.! Centralize and monitor threats in real time on a customizable dashboard. Visualize a threat s proximity to your buildings, people, areas, and trade routes. Track finely-filtered social network activity on a map or in a dashboard gadget. Easily add map overlays from our library of trusted GIS datasets or add your own. Populate maps with any location-specific data source: GeoRSS, GPS, sensor data, etc. 6

7 COLLABORATE, RESPOND, AND SHARE INTEL SAFELY.! SECURED COMMUNITIES Sometimes you want to broadcast information to the public; sometimes your organization s survival depends on highly secure sharing. With TIES, you decide who sees what.! Create highly secure networks within and across organizations to support the sharing of both open and sensitive information. Mayor/City Leadership First Responders City Emergency Mgmt. Utilize policy and security controls to extend TIES access to a specified group comprised of internal or external personnel or both. City Public Schools Govt. / State Emergency Mgmt. Uphold confidentiality and privacy protection while also enabling designated dashboards and alerts, shared by a small group or a large community. Enable fast, automated distribution to groups in a crisis, adhering to previously established information sharing protocols. Cri7cal Infrastructure Par7cipants Neighbor City Public Schools Neighbor City First Responders Neighbor City Mayor s Office 911 Emergency Comm. Center 7

8 A FULL SUITE OF SITUATIONAL AWARENESS TOOLS.! ADDITIONAL CAPABILITIES More than just Intelligence Channels, Smart Alerts, Dashboards, and Secured Communities, our feature-set is constantly expanding to address new challenges.!! Easy sharing of custom Channels, Dashboards, and Asset Collections in Workspaces! Support for custom alert properties with which to filter and deliver alerts! Asset-proximity Smart Alerting! Social media monitoring, including Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, Reddit, and more! Bing Search map overlays! Simple asset and user management! Resiliency, security, and scalability from the Windows Azure cloud! White label and reseller account options! Highly scalable easily add and remove users during times of crisis 8

9 INTELLIGENCE TAYLORED TO YOUR AGENCY S NEEDS.! FIVE EDITIONS TO CHOOSE FROM 1 CITY LEADERS Empower city leaders to improve communication within and across agencies, private sectors, communities and city partners. 2 SAFE SCHOOLS Monitor nearby threats and at-risk students via social media and law enforcement feeds. Open lines of communication between departments, other schools and first responders. 3 DISASTER RESPONSE Gather late-breaking intelligence from a myriad of trusted agencies into one common operating picture, and inform responders via by text, and text-to-voice. 4 CYBER SECURITY Receive and disseminate the latest news and updates on cyber threats, vulnerabilities, breaches and best practices, customized precisely for your organization s technology. 5 SPECIAL EVENTS Get an overview of potential event disruption with real-time dashboards and social monitoring. Connect multiple vendors and allow them to easily contribute to a common operating picture. 9

10 APPLICABLE TO A VARIETY OF ORGANIZATIONS.! PUBLIC SECTORS THAT WE SERVE TIES for Microsoft CityNext is designed to support a variety of public sectors. Swan Island is extremely agile, and well-equipped to provide surge capacity in a crisis.! Sector Government and Law Enforcement Healthcare K-12 Education Public Safety Retail & Manufacturing Energy/Utilities Financial Services Initiatives Security & Command Center Operations Business Continuity & IT Events Management Executive Protection Asset Monitoring Human Factor Cyber Security Disaster Response To learn how Swan Island can help you optimize your security and risk management,! contact us at or sales@swanisland.net! 10

11 About Swan Island Networks: Situational Awareness and Smart Alerting. Made Easy. Swan Island Networks has been a leader and innovator in situational intelligence and Smart Alerting for over a decade. Swan Island s TIES for Microsoft CityNext platform helps you make faster, better informed decisions with highly relevant real-time alerts and a comprehensive common operating picture. Headquarters 6420 SW Macadam Ave. Suite 160 Portland, OR Tel: Founded in 2002 by 20-year veterans of the cyber security industry, Swan Island Networks began as a software engineering lab working with the US government, focusing on R&D programs. The company has participated in a dozen contracts with government agencies such as the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, and various intelligence organizations. In 2009, Swan Island Networks launched the Trusted Information Exchange Service (TIES). Designed to optimize intelligence aggregation, filtering, and distribution for the physical and cyber security industries, TIES now supports and helps protect more than 250 large enterprises and 20% of Fortune 100 companies every day. In 2014, Swan Island announced a new partnership with Microsoft and launched TIES for Microsoft CityNext, providing situational intelligence services to city, state, and county leaders; schools safety officers and administrators; CIOs; and emergency management and safety personnel. For more information contact us at or sales@swanisland.net