Digital Sandbox and VidSys Team to Deliver Risk-Optimized Safety and Security Solutions
Sep 02 2009
September 2, 2009, McLean, VA – Digital Sandbox, Inc., provider of the Risk Analysis Center (RAC) analytic risk management software and services, announced that it has formed a marketing and technology integration partnership with VidSys, the leading provider of Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) software, to help organizations resolve business and security situations in real time. Digital Sandbox and VidSys are collaborating to deliver advanced strategic safety, security and risk management systems for public and private-sector customers.
“City, state, and federal agencies are rapidly deploying broad-based physical security and video surveillance systems to enhance citizen security and safety and minimize first responder risks,” explained Dave Fowler, Senior Vice President Marketing and Product Development, VidSys. “Often these systems are being acquired on an agency by agency basis, without an overall strategy for tying them together to address inter-departmental issues or the issues of the organization as a whole. The combination of Digital Sandbox risk assessment analytics and PSIM software from VidSys can help prioritize risks across agencies, and allow customers to integrate their different systems to create a coordinated approach to multi-department threats.”
“With the growing trend of government agencies looking at their overall risks, and both VidSys and Digital Sandbox working with a number of large jurisdictions today, this is a great partnership for two leaders in this market segment to team up to help reduce on-going risk and increase security and safety,” said Steve Hunt, Hunt Business Intelligence.
To realize these advantages, agencies first use the Digital Sandbox RAC to perform a general risk overview. This reveals the types of potential risks the organization faces (such as weather, special event management, hazmat spills, potential crime or terrorist targets, etc.), helps prioritize those risks, and identifies the agencies and assets needed to help address them. “Based on the results of this overview, we can move into a detailed, quantified baseline assessment for each risk scenario and determine the priority a customer should assign to each,” explained Digital Sandbox President and co-founder Anthony Beverina. “Our team can then help identify best practices to address each risk, recommend how to best take advantage of existing security assets and conduct a gap analysis of what might be needed to create a more complete security infrastructure.”
With a completed RAC baseline analysis from Digital Sandbox, the VidSys team is able to show how an organization can maximize the effectiveness of the existing physical security assets and skills scattered across the agencies by using PSIM software to dynamically pool and integrate them when faced with an emergency. A detailed technology gap analysis between available assets and defined procedures determines what incremental assets might be needed for a more effective response to the risks. The results are reduced risk, lower cost of operation, and faster, more effective situational response. The VidSys PSIM software is integrated with the Digital Sandbox RAC for ongoing feedback and strategic and operational risk management.
“Our intent is to optimize the effectiveness of an organization’s physical security investments,” added Beverina. “After our RAC system and recommended strategy are in place, both Digital Sandbox and VidSys combine to conduct ongoing performance assessments that monitor and measure the improvements delivered by the new security infrastructure.”
About VidSys
VidSys is the leading provider of Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) software that enables organizations to reduce operational costs and improve situation response times while reducing risks and increasing safety, security, and asset protection. Its award-winning Open PSIM PlatformTM and multi-vendor video and situation management software, VidShield™ and RiskShield™ respectively, are running in numerous command centers, including some of the largest in North America. The company works closely with its customers in federal, state, and local government as well as enterprises in the high tech, financial services, and transportation industries. VidSys is also the founding member of http://www.psimtrends.com, a thought leadership site dedicated to discussing the PSIM industry. Privately funded by Flybridge Capital Partners, Motorola Ventures, and JVax Investment Group, principal offices are located in Marlborough, Massachusetts and Vienna, Virginia. For more information, please visit http://www.vidsys.com/.
About Digital Sandbox
Digital Sandbox provides analytic risk management software and services to government agencies and large enterprises, enabling them to optimize their strategic, policy, and budgetary decisions for risk-based resource allocation. Since 1998, Digital Sandbox’s analytic risk management solutions have helped National Security, Homeland Security, and Corporate Security customers lower their risk exposure, increase the return on their risk management investments, and maximize the effectiveness of their finite resources. Visit Digital Sandbox on the Web at http://www.dsbox.com/.
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