{"id":774646,"date":"2026-08-18T05:55:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=wherenext&p=774646"},"modified":"2026-08-18T06:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:26:24","slug":"nexttech-accelerating-security-decisions-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"wherenext","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/nexttech-accelerating-security-decisions-with-ai","title":{"rendered":"NextTech: Accelerating Security Decisions with AI"},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1741,404762,493569],"department":[488822],"wherenext-category":[],"industry":[],"class_list":["post-774646","wherenext","type-wherenext","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ai","tag-business-risk","tag-security-operations","department-sustainability-risk"],"acf":{"short_description":"In the face of violent storms and other threats, AI and GIS rapidly deliver intelligence to protect business assets and employees. ","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"It\u2019s the fall of 2026, and the global security team of a Fortune 200 company has a problem it can no longer overlook: its global security operations center (GSOC)<\/a> isn\u2019t identifying and responding to business risks as fast as executives would like."},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Left","content":"Snapshot<\/strong>: Executives aim to shrink the time it takes to spot and manage business risks. New AI tools are built for quick insight, as this demo reveals.","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Analysts lose time flipping between screens and reports, trying to gauge whether severe weather, access breaches, political unrest, or transportation strikes will impact the company\u2019s operations. They\u2019re missing alerts as they try to sift real threats from noise, and some are burning out.\r\n\r\nThe security team meets with management and proposes a fix: To protect operations, the GSOC needs an intuitive technology that gives business leaders quick, data-rich context.\r\n\r\nThe global VP of security hears them out, then offers a challenge:\r\n\r\nLet\u2019s go back to Hurricane Ian. We all know it was one of the costliest storms in decades, and it battered our operations in the South. How would the system you want to install have protected us better?<\/em>\r\n\r\nThe team opens the sandbox and shows the VP a demo of geospatial technology, powered by AI:"},{"acf_fc_layout":"kaltura","video_id":"1_4x99rqv2","time":false,"start":0,"stop":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Security Decisions, AI Queries, and Intelligence in Seconds<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nManufacturers, retailers, utility companies, tech firms, insurers, and others are using AI-enabled location software <\/a>to shrink the time needed to understand and act on operational threats.\r\n\r\nFor those companies, an encroaching Category 5 hurricane provokes urgent questions: How exposed are our employees? What\u2019s the potential revenue loss?\u00a0 Which assets are inside the impact zone, and what should we do to get ready?"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"A GSOC outfitted with AI-enabled location technology has:<\/strong>\r\n