Allied Universal Collaborates With PlanetRisk To Provide GSOC Service And Product Offering

Allied Universal, a major facility services company and security force in North America, has teamed up with PlanetRisk to offer organizations an enterprise risk software as a service platform to stay informed of threats to their operation in real time. The service will be offered as a stand-alone solution or as part of the Allied Universal Global Security Operations Center as a service (GSOCaaS) product suite available in the company’s Monitoring and Response Center (MaRC), based in Richardson, Texas.

“Enterprises that go with PlanetRisk will gain a ‘single pane of glass’ common operating picture that combines multiple data feeds into one GSOC interface,” says Ty Richmond, Allied Universal President, Integrated Security Solutions and Technology. “Our support of custom integration with this product along with analyst services allows us to offer fully-managed situational awareness to help customers prepare for and prevent operational threats, minimize risk for employees and protect assets.”

PlanetRisk monitors all client assets and provides alerts and notifications when an event or incident occurs

Real-time Monitoring of Client Assets

PlanetRisk delivers actionable intelligence by accelerating the aggregation of global data to interpret connections between seemingly unconnected events. On a real-time basis, PlanetRisk monitors all client assets (offices, facilities, manufacturing, supply chain, travelers, executives, vehicles, aircraft) and provides alerts and notifications when an event or incident occurs. Using big data and analytics, the cloud-based platform identifies threat patterns and risk warnings relevant to clients’ business operations. These early indicators provide customers the ability to create informed response mitigation plans.

“Partnering with Allied Universal gives PlanetRisk’s product suite unprecedented exposure to Fortune 500 companies across North America,” said Paul McQuillan, President and CEO of PlanetRisk. “We are incredibly excited that our CSX platform will power Allied Universal’s GSOCaaS with situational awareness on a global scale, and rich contextual analysis with PlanetRisk’s 10,000+ data layers.”

PlanetRisk’s flexible third-party integration architecture enables CSX to work with other platforms

CSX Platform

PlanetRisk’s flexible third-party integration architecture enables CSX to work with other platforms for a seamless workflow process. The web-based CSX product, accessible anywhere, is supported through a custom dashboard compatible with desktop or mobile devices. Allied Universal clients can have their systems monitored 24x7x365 via GSOC operators and analysts dedicated at the MaRC, a client’s site or PlanetRisk’s Global Intelligence Operations Center. These resources are critical to the analysis, reporting, and communication of critical events as well as to managing all physical and operational information work flow.

PlanetRisk recently signed a contract worth up to $79 million over five years to provide the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Cybersecurity and Communications with Program Management Support.