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AlertMedia, the leading provider of risk intelligence and response solutions, today released The Security Maturity Benchmark Report, a new research study examining the operational, organizational, and technology factors that determine whether security programs can effectively withstand today’s evolving threat landscape.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading provider of risk intelligence and response solutions, today announced the launch of AlertMedia Analytics, a powerful suite of new, AI-enabled reporting capabilities designed to help organizations better understand, measure, and improve their operational effectiveness during critical events. With Analytics, customers can rapidly access and build fully bespoke dashboards, leverage AI-assisted queries to surface critical data, and configure automated alerts that notify administrators when thresholds are reached or anomalies are detected. Together, these capabilities significantly reduce the time required to analyze and understand security program performance.

AlertMedia, the leading provider of risk intelligence and response solutions, today announced four executive leadership promotions. Alex Vaccaro, formerly Chief Marketing Officer, has been named the company’s first President, reporting to CEO Christopher Kenessey. As President, Vaccaro will lead strategic initiatives, including AlertMedia’s AI strategy, as the company continues releasing AI native products and embedding AI across its platform and operations. The company also appointed Eric Curwin as the company’s first Chief AI Officer, where he will work closely with Vaccaro on AI strategy and lead AI design and development across the platform and business. Additionally, Stuart Gray has been promoted to Chief Customer Officer and John Yarbrough to Chief Marketing Officer, with both joining the executive leadership team.

AlertMedia, a leading provider of risk intelligence and response solutions, today announced it has selected Healix as its global travel assistance partner. The partnership incorporates direct access to Healix’s medical, travel, and security response services within the AlertMedia platform, creating a single path from alert to action when travelers need help. Through the partnership, AlertMedia customers can benefit from a fully connected travel risk and response solution that empowers organizations to identify, assess, and respond to threats impacting their global workforces faster and more effectively.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading provider of risk intelligence and incident response solutions, today announced major enhancements to its Risk Intelligence suite, delivering powerful new agentic AI capabilities to enable security teams to accelerate threat identification, monitor emerging narratives on social platforms, and coordinate threat response workflows with greater speed and visibility.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading provider of risk intelligence and critical event management solutions, today announced the launch of Incident Response, a powerful addition to its AI-enabled platform designed to help organizations mitigate risks and resolve incidents faster.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management provider, today announced it has been named to Inc.’s annual Best Workplaces list for the fifth time. The list honors companies that have built exceptional workplaces and vibrant cultures that support their teams and businesses.

AlertMedia, a leading provider of risk intelligence and critical event management solutions, today announced the acquisition of Pyrra Technologies, a pioneer in AI-enabled social media monitoring and intelligence. The acquisition significantly enhances AlertMedia’s ability to help organizations rapidly identify, assess, and respond to nascent and emerging threats to people and assets and reinforces the company’s commitment to providing AI-driven insights for security teams tasked with keeping employees safe.

AlertMedia, a leading provider of threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management solutions, today announced it is the only vendor recognized as a Customers’ Choice in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Emergency/Mass Notification Services Solutions report.¹

AlertMedia, the world’s leading threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management provider, today released its highly anticipated 2025 Employee Safety Report: Closing the Workplace Safety Gap. The report reveals that workplace safety remains a top priority for employees worldwide—but significant gaps persist between employee expectations and employer efforts.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading emergency communication, threat intelligence, and travel risk management provider, today announced the launch of AI Assistant, a generative AI-powered tool designed to help organizations communicate faster and more effectively during critical events. With AI Assistant, crisis management and response leaders can now dynamically draft, edit, and translate emergency notifications in seconds natively within the AlertMedia platform, reducing response time when every moment counts.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading provider of threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management solutions, today announced it was recognized by Built In as one of the top employers in the U.S. as well as Austin, Texas, where the company is headquartered. AlertMedia was recognized with four distinct awards, earning inclusion as a top workplace in the following categories:

AlertMedia, the world’s leading threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management provider, today released its highly anticipated 2025 Threat Outlook report, Emerging Trends in the Threat Landscape, which offers detailed insights concerning global business risks to guide resilience planning in 2025 and beyond. The report, now in its third year, sheds light on significant trends shaping the risk landscape, including accelerating climate change, economic instability, rising cyber threats, and geopolitical conflicts, among others.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management provider, today announced the launch of Visual Intelligence, a new offering delivering powerful mapping and geospatial analysis tools that maximize visibility into emergencies and other critical events. With AlertMedia Visual Intelligence, organizations can unify disparate data sources, rapidly assess risk potential, and get actionable insights faster—all from a single platform.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management provider, today announced Jeff Dean has joined the company as Vice President of Global Intelligence Operations. In his new role, Dean will leverage his extensive experience gained over 35 years in physical security, risk management, and crisis management leadership roles to enhance the depth and breadth of AlertMedia’s coverage of the global threat landscape.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading provider of threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management solutions, today announced a new integration with BCD Travel, one of the world’s largest corporate travel management companies.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management provider, today announced it has been named to Inc.’s annual Best Workplaces list for the fourth time. Inc.’s Best Workplaces list honors top U.S. employers based on an independent review of each organization’s culture as well as an extensive survey of its employees.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading provider of threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management solutions, today announced a new integration with Microsoft Teams, adding to its extensive catalog of reliable communication channels. The integration, available immediately worldwide, further enhances organizations’ ability to communicate with employees during emergencies and critical events, no matter where they are in the world.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management provider, today released findings from its third annual State of Employee Safety Report, which details employees’ perceptions of safety in the workplace. The 2024 report validates a trend AlertMedia has been tracking since 2022—employees are calling for more training, better safety communication, and greater transparency around their employers’ efforts to maintain a safe workplace.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading provider of threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management solutions, today announced it is the only vendor recognized as a Customers’ Choice in the 2024 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Emergency/Mass Notification Services Solutions report.1

AlertMedia, the world’s leading provider of threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management solutions, today announced it was recognized by Built In as one of the top employers in the U.S. as well as Austin, Texas, where the company is headquartered. Specifically, AlertMedia was recognized with four distinct awards, earning inclusion as a top workplace in the following categories:

AlertMedia, the world’s leading provider of threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management solutions, today announced it has been named a Strong Performer by Forrester Research in The Forrester Wave™: Critical Event Management Platforms, Q4 2023 report.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management provider, today announced it has hired Marc Ostryniec as its Chief Revenue Officer. As CRO, Ostryniec will lead all aspects of AlertMedia’s global sales organization, including go-to-market strategy, channel partnerships, and personnel development to support AlertMedia’s continued momentum and rapidly growing customer base.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading provider of threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management solutions, today announced it ranked number 442 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech companies in North America, now in its 29th year. AlertMedia grew 273% during this period.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading provider of threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management solutions, today announced a new integration with WhatsApp, further enhancing organizations’ ability to reach and communicate with global employees during emergencies and critical events. Available worldwide, the integration enables organizations to securely send and receive notifications through WhatsApp’s multiplatform messaging service, in conjunction with AlertMedia’s full suite of threat intelligence and emergency communication capabilities. WhatsApp notifications work seamlessly with AlertMedia’s complete catalog of communication channels, allowing companies to respond to emergencies faster from a single interface.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading provider of threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management solutions, today launched an integration with Concur Travel. The integration allows joint AlertMedia and Concur Travel customers the ability to automatically sync travel data from Concur® Travel into AlertMedia Travel Risk Management, providing travel risk and security teams a real-time view of employees’ locations while traveling for work along with a powerful suite of tools to prepare employees ahead of business trips, monitor emerging travel risks, and respond quickly to keep travelers out of harm’s way.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading provider of threat intelligence, emergency communication, and travel risk management solutions, today announced a new integration with Navan, a globally recognized travel and expense management company. Through the integration, joint AlertMedia-Navan customers can now automatically sync travel data from Navan into AlertMedia Travel Risk Management, providing travel risk and security teams a real-time view of employees’ locations while traveling for work, along with a powerful suite of tools to prepare employees ahead of business trips, monitor emerging travel risks, and respond quickly to keep travelers out of harm’s way.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading threat intelligence and emergency communication provider, today announced it has hired Jenna Eichberg as its Chief People Officer. With extensive experience building and scaling HR programs for fast-growth companies, Eichberg will lead talent acquisition, workplace experience, and employee development initiatives to support AlertMedia’s growth strategy.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading threat intelligence and emergency communication provider, today announced Travel Risk Management, a new offering that enables organizations to better prepare employees for business trips, identify potential travel risks, and quickly reach travelers in the event of an emergency—all from a single solution. Available immediately worldwide, AlertMedia Travel Risk Management provides a holistic view of organizations’ traveling workforce along with fully integrated risk monitoring and powerful communication features to help travel safety and security teams keep employees informed and out of harm’s way when traveling for work.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading threat intelligence and emergency communication provider, today released findings from its second annual State of Employee Safety Report, which details employees’ perceptions of safety in the workplace. The study found that 71% of employees don’t think their employers are following through on safety promises, and 65% believe their employers are not making an active effort to improve safety training.

AlertMedia today announced it continues to see strong demand for its threat intelligence and emergency communication solution as organizations across every industry invest in employee safety and business continuity amidst an increasingly severe and unpredictable threat landscape. In 2022, AlertMedia achieved its ninth consecutive year of annualized revenue growth exceeding 40% year-over-year. Additionally, the company announced it onboarded more than 600 new customers and dozens of Fortune 1000 companies during its 2022 fiscal year, including Equifax, Genuine Parts Company, Party City, RH, and Tenet Healthcare. Customers’ adoption of AlertMedia’s emergency communication solutions can be attributed to a growing need for always-on employee safety and reliable threat intelligence to respond to a wide range of organizational risks.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading threat intelligence and emergency communication provider, today announced the grand opening of its new, 68,000-square-foot headquarters at RiverSouth. AlertMedia’s offices now occupy the top two floors of the state-of-the-art, 15-story building, recently dubbed the “smartest” office building in Texas, located in the highly desirable Town Lake neighborhood positioned between South First Street and South Congress Avenue. The space boasts numerous smart and environmentally friendly features, hotel-style amenities, and stunning panoramic views of Lady Bird Lake, Auditorium Shores, and the Downtown Austin skyline.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading threat intelligence and emergency communication provider, today announced the global availability of Analyst Access, the first solution to offer organizations direct, around-the-clock access to a team of expert threat intelligence analysts during emergencies and other critical events. Through Analyst Access, customers now interact directly with AlertMedia’s Global Intelligence Team via an in-product, secure chat experience to obtain context, clarity, and insight on developing threats occurring near employees, facilities, and assets. The capabilities represent a significant enhancement to the company’s Threat Intelligence product, providing an industry-first combination of a verified threat intelligence feed, dedicated analyst support, and the ability to collaborate in real time with like-minded safety and security professionals from multiple organizations.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading threat intelligence and emergency communication provider, today announced it will host its inaugural Employee Safety Conference from October 26-28, 2022, at the JW Marriot in Austin, Texas. The three-day event, exclusive to AlertMedia customers, will feature speaker sessions and workshops with safety, security, and business resilience experts from a wide range of leading organizations, including JetBlue, GitHub, the San Diego Padres, AlertMedia, and more.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading threat intelligence and emergency communication provider, today released findings from its inaugural State of Employee Safety Report, which details employees’ current perceptions of safety in the workplace. The study found that 90% of American workers believe their organization has a duty of care—a legal and moral obligation—to protect employees from unnecessary risk of harm when working or traveling on their behalf. Furthermore, 82% of employees stated employers’ obligation to keep employees safe extends to those working remotely.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading threat intelligence and emergency communication provider, today announced that Cheryl Steele has joined its board of directors. Steele brings a depth of experience working in physical security, enterprise resilience and employee safety to her role on AlertMedia’s board. Steele will help guide the company’s strategic growth as it continues to deliver best-in-class solutions and exceptional customer service as the leader in emergency communication software.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading emergency communication provider, today announced a significant enhancement to its Global Threat Intelligence solution, providing organizations with access to verified, historical data about a wide range of physical threats in any location of interest around the world. Using Threat History, which is immediately available to AlertMedia customers worldwide, organizations can conduct detailed assessments to identify at-risk employees and locations, determine trends in threat activity, and inform strategic decision-making concerning the future of their businesses.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading emergency communication provider, announced today it has hired Elizabeth Loucheur as Chief Operating Officer. With an extensive background in customer success and product development, Loucheur will help drive AlertMedia’s growth strategy, scaling operational and functional capabilities across all teams while developing new services for AlertMedia’s global customer base.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading threat intelligence and emergency communication provider, announced today it saw massive demand for its solution in 2021, especially among enterprise organizations. As of December 2021, the company supports more than 3,000 organizations, making it one of the most widely used emergency communication solutions in the world. Aided by a continued commitment to product innovation, extensive industry recognition, and strategic hiring, the company onboarded more than 600 new organizations onto its platform since the beginning of the year, including dozens of Fortune 500 organizations.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading emergency communication provider, today announced the launch of several new mobile app features designed to keep today’s hybrid workforce and anywhere workers safe and connected to their organization while traveling, working remotely, or on the go. Employees of organizations with an AlertMedia account can now access real-time information about emerging threats happening anywhere in the world through the AlertMedia mobile app, with the option also to leverage dynamic location tracking to receive instantaneous threat intelligence alerts about environmental hazards, crime, and other potentially dangerous incidents happening nearby. Additionally, through a new partnership with GeoSure, employees can access detailed neighborhood and city-level safety scores for any work or travel destination to help them quickly and accurately understand their surroundings when in unfamiliar places.

AlertMedia, the world’s leading emergency communication provider, today announced the release of a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, The Total Economic Impact™ Of AlertMedia’s Emergency Communication and Threat Intelligence Solutions. According to the study, enterprise organizations using AlertMedia experience benefits of $1.7 million over three years, on average, representing a return on investment of 329 percent over the same period.