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Awareity is honored to be a winner of the Security Sales & Integration Magazine 2019 SSI MVP Award. Our proven, and award-winning Connecting the Dots Platform for Intervention and Prevention won a top spot and recognition in the category of “Central Station/Monitoring” as well as a finalist position in the category of “Business Operations”. Security Sales & Integration Magazine Most Valuable Product (MVP) Awards, honor superior products and services for electronic security industry professionals. The MVP Awards recognize superlative security products that make a substantial impact on integrators. “Each year, thousands of electronic security products are introduced. SSI has launched the MVP Awards to distinguish andRead More →

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Making new year predictions about Information Security and Hackers is not difficult based on knowledge, evidence, and lessons learned from previous years. 2018 Prediction:  Hackers will continue to hack your weakest links, unaware people (employees, contractors, vendors, third-party service providers, etc.) and unpatched systems, to gain access to unauthorized information. 2018 Prediction: Hackers will continue to steal information from organizations (like yours) which they gained access to and then sell it or use it to make money. 2018 Prediction: Hackers will continue to encrypt information from organizations (like yours) which they gain access to and request a ransom payment for in order to unlock theRead More →

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With a strong focus on community-based prevention, Umonhon Nation Schools is providing a new resource called TIPS to report potential school safety concerns. Community members (students, parents, employees, neighbors, etc.) almost always observe red flags and warning signs prior to a violent event, but too often, this information is not shared with the right people and the opportunity for early intervention is missed. The TIPS (Threat Assessment, Incident Management and Prevention Services) Platform from Awareity allows students, parents, faculty, staff and community members to anonymously or confidentially report bullying, drugs/alcohol, abuse/neglect, harassment, self-harm, suicide risks, vandalism, threats to harm, weapons, truancy or other potentially disruptiveRead More →

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Hutchinson Community College Launches Awareity’s TIPS Prevention Platform: A Community-wide Connection to Improve Safety and Security Hutchinson Community College recently implemented Awareity’s web-based incident reporting and prevention platform, TIPS (Threat Assessment, Incident Management and Prevention Services), to improve campus safety and increase efficiencies in threat assessment and investigation processes. A pioneering leader for their region, HutchCC is the first college in Kansas to take advantage of TIPS, and joins colleges nationwide in an effort to improve bias reporting and violence prevention. HutchCC is dedicated to maintaining a safe campus and secure learning environment for all students and employees, and launching Awareity’s TIPS empowers members ofRead More →

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Centralized and Secure Record-Keeping is Key for Virginia Colleges By now, most colleges and universities have taken steps to form threat assessment teams – groups providing consultation and assistance on campus regarding potentially dangerous situations. The teams investigate a range of possible cases, including threats made by students, employees, faculty members, and others in the community, and should be notified anytime someone in the college observes or learns about a threat of violence or a situation that appears to be threatening. Check out this recent article featured in Security Products Magazine discussing how several colleges in Virginia have taken advantage of TIPS to help manageRead More →

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As colleges across the nation continue to face growing challenges, dialogues about diversity, bias, safety and security are happening and pointing toward the need for change. As Secretary Duncan recently said, it is critical for college presidents to “lead from the top”, and “when an incident occurs, institutional leadership have a key role in assuring students of their commitment to a safe and welcoming environment for all students and faculty.” Rick recently sat down with William Nunez, Chief of Staff and Associate to the Chancellor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, to discuss how UNL is taking advantage of TIPS to monitor their campus climate andRead More →

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Switching gears back to education, Rick met with Bradley County Public Schools Safety and Security Director, Scotty Hernandez. Scotty is really leading the way in providing his school and SRO team with the TIPS secure platform to both report concerning behaviors and document all investigation efforts and daily activities to create an ongoing database of information that can be used to ensure all students are being responded to appropriately. As Scotty mentions in the interview, ensuring all incidents are tracked from beginning to end to show what steps were taken to prevent incidents from escalating provides the accountability necessary for a school community. An excerptRead More →

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Moving over to the financial sector and connecting with the Chief Operating Officer for Cornhusker Bank, Steve Lindgren! Financial institutions and their customers continue to be defrauded by increased incidents of account takeover, ACH and wire fraud incidents that have led to the theft of millions of dollars. So, how can institutions meet new requirements and improve their abilities to prevent fraud and detect and respond to suspicious activities? Cornhusker Bank has been utilizing Awareity’s TIPS platform for over 9 years and continues to evolve and take advantage of all the system has to offer. They are leading the way and allowing all bank employeesRead More →

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These counselors are making a huge difference! Another interview, this time with High School Counselor, Christina Miller from Twin Rivers Schools in Missouri. After the Twin Rivers Schools participated in a student survey following the Stand for the Silent anti-bullying presentation, it was clear the students were asking for solutions. TIPS was a perfect fit for their school community, and the customization capabilities allowed Twin Rivers to make it their own and reach their students in a whole new way. Christina is very forward thinking, and TIPS is allowing her team to immediately handle small situations when they start, whether that be comments made onRead More →

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Another great interview with Middle School Counselor, Craig Spinner, from Westfield Washington Schools. In 2014, Westfield Washington Schools had the honor of participating in a presentation by David and Tina Long, of Everything Starts with One and featured in the “Bully” movie, in which they spoke about their son’s tragic suicide. Tina shared that she believed the TIPS platform may have helped prevent Tyler’s death. Westfield had also recently experienced a suicide of their own and Craig recognized that the school needed to be more proactive. Awareity’s TIPS platform now allows Westfield Washington Schools to not only receive incident reports (anonymously or non-anonymously) from allRead More →