The surge in demand for intelligence programs and intelligence-oriented global security operations centers (GSOCs) and virtual security operations centers (VSOCs) has not emerged out of thin air. In fact, it has been driven by changing corporate security concerns, which themselves have been shaped by the fears of corporate leaders.

Underpaid or under-trained security officers are only one of the gaps in event security, according to a USA Today report. 

The Philadelphia project has spent roughly $2.3 million since 2006, but little has actually been accomplished on the counterterrorism center.

The intelligence community's fusion centers are set up to share information between federal, state and local authorities, but the information seems to be about more innocuous behavior than actual terrorist activity.