From combating terrorism to addressing cyber threats to maintaining public safety, public-private partnerships have the potential to boost security and emergency management programs.

The AES Corporation owns and operates global sustainable energy and thermal and renewable facilities, expanding over four continents and 14 countries with more than 9,000 employees worldwide.

What does Anne Marie Zettlemoyer, President, Security Engineering at Mastercard, attribute to her professional success?

There is no better example of a technology with great benefits and even greater challenges than drones, or Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), specifically commercial drones. 

“For us, a game day activity is no small matter,” says James (Jimmy) Johnson, Assistant Vice President for Campus Safety at the University of Texas at Austin.

No kidding – Longhorn football games regularly sell out, hosting more than 100,000 fans in the Darrel K Royal (DKR)-Texas Memorial Stadium, not counting the small army of vendors, staff, security personnel and law enforcement that keep operations running smoothly.

Privately owned surveillance cameras are increasingly providing leads to law enforcement during investigations, and police departments, such as the Williamson County, Texas, sheriff’s office, are encouraging the public to register their video surveillance cameras.

More police and resident interactions in St. Louis will be captured by body cameras by the end of the year as eight area police departments jointly landed a $400,000 federal grant to equip about 260 officers with body cameras.