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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The Lessons of Umpqua

October 1, 2019

Four years ago today, a 26-year-old student at Umpqua Community College in Oregon fatally shot a professor and eight students and wounded eight others, before killing himself as police approached.

While perhaps lesser known than similar tragedies at Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech or Parkland, Umpqua nonetheless ranks as the deadliest shooting in the state.

So what have we learned from Umpqua and all the other school shootings that have occurred since then? The root causes of these incidents have been debated heavily, as have the remedies — and we’re not going to come to a consensus on those anytime soon. But we can agree that school safety can and must be each district and state’s highest priority as long as these types of school attacks are still possible.

In the wake of a campus shooting, it is always tempting for school safety stakeholders to focus all their preparedness efforts and dedicate their budgets to countering this exact kind of high-profile threat in the future. But it’s a mistake schools must avoid.

As we’ve noted in previous blogs, schools must instead take a balanced all-hazards approach to risk that doesn’t focus solely on the last attack. Haystax designed our cloud-based school safety solution so it can be used to prepare for and manage any man-made accidental or intentional threat, as well as a wide array of natural hazards — any of which could strike a school with little or no notice.

Additionally, the solution provides enhanced situational awareness and information sharing, which are critical to the ability of all agencies in the school safety community to be better prepared, detect emerging threats faster and respond more quickly.

Colleges and university campuses have their own unique challenges. They are typically spread over wide areas, and many of the larger higher-ed systems manage separate campuses across the U.S. and even abroad.

In these large-enterprise situations, the need for a common operating picture and up-to-the minute situational awareness is even more critical for security decision-makers.

Whether you run a small K-12 district with eight schools or a massive multi-campus university system, take this sad anniversary as a reminder to keep your focus on all-hazard preparedness.

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