Organizations of all types are struggling with a complex set ofpriorities associated with emergency preparedness, response andrecovery in today’s volatile environment. There are ever increasingthreats associated with manmade, environmental and naturaldisasters. Compounding these physical threats is an increasingproliferation of cyber-based intrusions into a variety of highprofile companies compromising sensitive personally identifiableinformation (PII) by very sophisticated "hackers". And thetechnology, safety and security personnel also find themselvestrying to combat these increasing threats with constrained manpowerand monetary budgets.

These variables were specifically addressed in the latest patentawarded to AtHoc for our hybrid-cloud deployment architecture. Thisdeployment method benefits an organization’s strategy of providingcrisis communication that leverages the speed, capacity andredundancy of a cloud based communication platform while isolatingsensitive PII behind the organization’s firewall.

Prior to this patented technology, organizations had only twosuboptimal options – either hosting their entire emergency massnotification solution onsite, with the added complexity, cost andrisk of overwhelming their internal communications during a crisis;or using a public cloud service, managing their PII and sensitiveinformation on a third party service.

The AtHoc’s networked crisis communication solution enablesorganizations to:

• alert employees of imminent danger to life and property

• collect information from devices, sensors and on scenepersonnel through traditional physical security monitoring systemsand a mobile application

• account for personnel and display their status on ageo-targeted map

• connect to out-side organizations for a coordinated andcollaborative response as the threat unfolds

This comprehensive solution can be deployed on premise, fullywithin a secure-cloud, or through our patented hybrid-cloud whichprovides the increased security of placing sensitive employee,contractor and family member data behind the customer’s firewallwhile leveraging all the advantages of a cloud-baseddeployment.