How the AEGIS Solution Enhances Airport Security

Users across many varied industries turn to KapLogic for an easy-to-use, customizable and powerful unified security platform solution that seamlessly integrates disparate security products.

Airports benefit from KapLogic’s software solutions, as they face myriad challenges. Aviation is indeed a complex industry and one that’s constantly growing. In addition to ensuring passenger and personnel safety, safeguarding the over 16 billion USD worth of goods that also are transported by air ranks as another chief priority.

One of the most obvious challenges faced by the industry are security threats. These can come from several sources including terrorist organizations, lone wolf radicals, even insider threats involving the use of firearms and other explosive devices.

Passenger checkpoint screening and cabin baggage screening personnel are tasked with dealing with large volumes of people and items flowing through. These require screening methodologies, the following of standard procedures, and detection of potential threats and/or prohibited items.

Societal problems that challenge our cities are also creeping into airports, which can be used as a haven for homeless, mentally ill, and drug addicted individuals, as well as those looking to commit acts of civil disobedience. Security directors are tasked with balancing assets, personnel, and operations to mitigate both public disorder and homeland security risks.

Swift response to any possible security breach at airports is hugely critical. The airport and aviation clients have come to rely on the Aegis integration software solution. Ideally suited to installations ranging from the very simple to the very complex, Aegis software provides one simple to use common user interface for multiple security and information subsystems. The various components of a security system can all be integrated to deliver a seamless, user-friendly control point for monitoring station operators.

While the benefits that Aegis provides meet the needs of the most challenging security concerns, they also meet some of the simplest! We found, for instance, that one of our airport clients was able to solve a very basic problem they were experiencing in their monitoring center with Aegis software.

The issue occurred every time an alarm was triggered. It required the operator on duty to access information from three different security systems. The operator literally had to run from one desk to another desk to get to the computers that held the security systems they needed in order to respond to an event. This created a very hectic environment that increased mistakes in responding to a security incident. There’s simply no room in an airport’s security protocol for this kind of inefficiency which could result in the inability to properly respond to a potential security threat

Installing Aegis allowed the operator to work from one desk and manage/respond to alarms from all three systems. Because Aegis unifies disparate security systems into one common graphical-user-interface, monitoring operators are provided the required information from Aegis to properly respond to an event. With the Aegis guided action plans which detail the step-by-step procedures for each event, the operators became more effective and efficient and ensured a more secure environment for the airport.