For over 25 years, Haystax has been the provider of world-class commercial software products for direct use by individuals in the agencies charged with protecting our communities, cities, and country. Thus, our product is one of the most widely deployed risk management software solutions, used by school, law enforcement, fire, emergency management, and other government agencies across the United States.

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Haystax for School Safety

Haystax meets the constantly evolving challenges of providing safe learning environments for students, faculty, staff, and local security partners by integrating all vital incident and school facility information into a single, online platform.  Physical assessments and behavioral assessments along with the ability to report and monitor incidents on or near campus are hallmarks of Haystax for School Safety.  Know your threats sooner, respond faster, and effectively coordinate actions for all stakeholders.

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Haystax for Public Safety

Law enforcement professionals are called upon daily to perform a broad range of tasks—from routine patrols, intelligence gathering and investigations to major crime and incident responses. Their challenge is to ensure public safety despite incomplete intelligence, limited cross-jurisdictional information sharing, and tight budgets. Haystax helps law enforcement agencies prepare for and respond to any crisis with a dynamic picture of emerging threats, rapid  intelligence-collection and incident-reporting tools, and a seamlessly integrated user environment that  ensures maximum collaboration and analytically sound command decisions for rapid response.

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Haystax for Enterprise Security

Haystax has developed a suite of applications designed specifically to help corporate security decision-makers and analysts navigate this challenging environment. Haystax alerts corporate leaders to their most likely threats and natural hazards, provides critical security and operational information about each physical facility, regardless of its size or geographic location, and allows risk managers to identify and mitigate their biggest vulnerabilities. Moreover, the Haystax platform enables security teams to manage incidents and major events—from the ops center or out in the field.

Equipped with these insights, CSOs can better anticipate their risks, communicate with leadership and limit their company’s exposure to financial, legal and reputational liabilities.

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Information Sharing is Key to Countering the Crime-to-Jihad Pipeline

April 3, 2016

A disturbing pattern has emerged in the recruiting tactics of hyper-violent organizations like ISIS: nearly all foot soldiers who have carried out mass-casualty attacks recently are already violent criminals known to police.

According to a recent Washington Post article, those responsible for the deadly attacks in Brussels were all known criminals – one an auto thief and carjacker; another an armed robber who had previously shot a police officer; and others with numerous drug and burglary convictions.

This recruiting tactic has spread from the streets of the Middle East to the streets of Europe with deadly consequences. Now more than ever, local police agencies must collect and share information and insights into criminal activity and suspicious situations in order to stop this recruiting tactic.

In a November 2015 article for the French publication Le Monde, Olivier Roy, professor at the European University Institute near Florence, argues that we are not facing the radicalization of Islam, but rather the Islamization of radicalism. Olivier argues that rebellious, often second-generation Westerners, seeking justification for their individualism, angst and criminality, find it in Islam. The “nice guy” who had a few problems suddenly displays new-found religious fervor and pride.

The pattern can be seen in numerous events involving the Tsarnaev brothers, the Kouachi brothers and now the perpetrators of the Brussels attacks. If this pattern holds, the need for police to be able to collect and analyze criminal information – especially including suspicious activity observances through field interview reports – will grow increasingly important not only in solving local crimes, but in preventing terrorist attacks. Officers should be trained to recognize suspicious activities that represent early indications of this transition and must have the tools to capture such observations and share them within and beyond their agencies and jurisdictional boundaries.

Technologies such as Haystax’s Mobile Field Interview capability should be used to capture those observations, and our Haystax for Incident Management platform is optimized to blend this data with other streaming information to analytically prioritize threats immediately across the community.

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