ZeroEyes, known for its multi-analytics weapons detection and threat intelligence platform, has initiated the Harborwatch Association, LLC.
This affiliated membership organization focuses on risk management and financing programs for firearm-related threats, initially serving K-12 schools and districts utilizing ZeroEyes' visual firearm detection technology. Harborwatch aims to enhance preparedness, response, and resilience by providing members with resources for school safety and firearm threat prevention.
Enhancing School Safety Measures
The association offers a range of resources to its members, tailored to their needs, such as educational materials, preparedness tools, camera network guidance, detection case studies, and school security best practices. Optional advisory services may also be accessible to members, aiding in better managing campus firearm risks. The goal is to assist participants in evaluating, planning, and mitigating risk effectively.
Harborwatch's offerings extend beyond prevention and include risk financing and crisis management programs designed to assist schools in recovering from firearm-related incidents. These programs address not only immediate challenges but also the extended repercussions of such events. Schools can face unforeseen costs, including operational disruptions, crisis communications, counseling, extra security, and other recovery expenses that may tax limited budgets.
Addressing Secondary Financial Impacts
Harborwatch's integrated solutions aim to help schools manage these challenges effectively
Some secondary expenses following an incident include increased student absenteeism, staff absences, spoiled perishables, transport disruptions, and overtime pay. Harborwatch's integrated solutions aim to help schools manage these challenges effectively.
ZeroEyes employs AI-powered threat detection and situational awareness software, integrating it with existing security cameras. If a visible firearm is detected, ZeroEyes Operations Center (ZOC), staffed by U.S.-based military and law enforcement veterans, evaluates and validates threats round-the-clock. Verified threats prompt immediate alerts, providing detailed intelligence to law enforcement and school security.
Pioneering Secure Learning Environments
"As schools continue to navigate an increasingly complex security and risk environment, solutions like ours represent a new approach to proactive safety, combining advanced threat detection with seamless recovery support when communities need it most," stated Mike Lahiff, co-founder and CEO of ZeroEyes.
"By bringing together risk management and risk financing resources within a single membership organization, Harborwatch will help school districts take a more comprehensive approach to firearm-related risk while supporting safer, more secure learning environments."
ZeroEyes, creators of the multi-analytics weapons detection and threat intelligence platform, launches Harborwatch Association, LLC, an affiliated, risk-focused membership organization. Initially focused on K-12 schools and school districts that use ZeroEyes visual firearm detection technology, Harborwatch's purpose is to give eligible members access to risk management and risk financing programs connected to firearm and weapons-related threats.
The association is designed to help members strengthen preparedness, response, and resilience by connecting them with resources related to firearm threat prevention, visual firearm detection, and school safety.
Optional advisory services
Depending on member needs, risk management resources and services such as educational content, preparedness tools, practical camera network guidance, detection case studies, school security best practices, and optional advisory services may be available. Such capabilities can help participating members better organize methodology to evaluate, plan for, and manage campus firearm-related risk.
Harborwatch will also provide access to seamless risk financing and crisis management programs to help members strengthen resilience and better navigate the aftermath of qualifying firearm-related events. When a school experiences a firearm-related incident, the impact often extends far beyond initial emergency response. Harborwatch’s risk financing and crisis management will assist schools with unforeseen expenses in the following hours, days, and weeks, including:
- Operational disruptions
- Crisis communications
- Counseling resources
- Additional security measures
- Other recovery-related costs that can strain already limited budgets
Situational awareness software
Some of the unforeseen, second-order financial expenses include heightened student absenteeism, staff absence following the event, spoiled perishables, transportation disruption, and overtime hours.
ZeroEyes' AI threat detection and intelligent situational awareness software layers onto existing digital security cameras. If a brandished firearm is identified, images are instantly shared with the ZeroEyes Operations Center (ZOC), the industry's only U.S.-based, fully in-house operation center, which is staffed 24/7/365 by specially trained U.S. military and law enforcement veterans. If these experts determine the threat is valid, they dispatch alerts and actionable intelligence — including visual description, gun type, and last known location — to law enforcement and school security teams, often in a matter of seconds from the moment a gun is detected.
Secure learning environments
“As schools continue to navigate an increasingly complex security and risk environment, solutions like ours represent a new approach to proactive safety, combining advanced threat detection with seamless recovery support when communities need it most,” said Mike Lahiff, co-founder and CEO of ZeroEyes.
“By bringing together risk management and risk financing resources within a single membership organization, Harborwatch will help school districts take a more comprehensive approach to firearm-related risk while supporting safer, more secure learning environments.”
