THE HONORABLE JOEL BAGNAL TO KEYNOTE NC4'S READINESS CONFERENCE

Fourth Annual Conference Allows Customers to Interact with Peers and Maximize NC4 Solutions
 

EL SEGUNDO, CA - March 26, 2008 – NC4, Inc., a leader in situational awareness, incident monitoring, crisis management, and secure collaboration, today announced the Honorable Joel Bagnal, Deputy Assistant to the President for Homeland Security, as the keynote speaker for its Fourth Annual Readiness Conference April 21-23 at The Westin Resort in Hilton Head, S.C.

“We are proud to have the Honorable Joel Bagnal as the keynote speaker for our Readiness Conference,” said Jim Montagnino, president, NC4. “Seasoned in homeland security, counterterrorism, as well as incident management and response, his extensive experience will resonate with, and provide valuable insight to, our customer attendees.”

Aimed at customer organizations and individuals involved in Corporate Security, Business Continuity Management, Emergency Management, Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, and Highly Advanced Security, the Readiness Conference offers valuable information on how to improve prevention, protection, response, and recovery. The conference will provide opportunities for peer-to-peer discussion regarding NC4 solutions, as well as training sessions and product updates. In addition, attendees can meet with the NC4 executive team as well as exchange ideas with other NC4 customers and experts.

“Nothing is more important than our customers. We actively listen to their needs, and continually strive to provide solutions that empower organizations to improve Situational Readiness,” Montagnino said. “We work diligently to ensure our Readiness Conference is productive, informative, and enjoyable – providing a forum for our customers to share their experiences as well as learn more about NC4 and our products. Year over year we use this opportunity to garner customer feedback and constructive ideas in order to improve our solutions as well as the annual event.”

NC4’s solutions provide organizations with situational awareness, incident monitoring, crisis management, and secure collaboration. Offerings deliver real-time, global, 24x7 proactive incident information (External Situational Awareness [ESA]); the ability for emergency response personnel to collaborate and manage efforts, across multiple organizations, from a single common view and coordination point (E Team); and highly secure communications and collaboration of Controlled Unclassified Information (Extranet Security Portals [ESP]).

This year, registration is open for all current customers at no cost. For more information on the Fourth Annual NC4 Readiness Conference, please visit www.nc4.us/nc4/userconference08.php.

About NC4

NC4, through its incident monitoring centers, improves the Situational Awareness to both business and government clients by providing real-time, global, 24x7 proactive incident information and alerts. NC4 issues timely, relevant, and personalized alerts covering incidents near an organizations key locations that may impact life and safety, physical assets, and continuity of operations. This includes incidents such as transportation, severe weather, hazmat, law enforcement, fire, terrorism, and other incidents that have the potential to cause disruption.

Additionally, NC4 provides Situational Response through its E Team offering, which provides sophisticated software and planning tools to enable emergency managers to effectively process the massive amounts of information generated during a major event, crisis, or disaster. E Team’s Windows-based, browser-accessible software has been used for project management during events ranging from 9/11, multiple Olympics, and political conventions to hurricanes and other natural disasters.

NC4 also provides Secure Communications and Collaboration through its ESP offerings. ESP is an application service provider that provides government agencies and corporations with a common platform for secure communication and collaboration. ESP provides a thorough security solution for diverse organizations to share Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) through highly secure, compartmented, web-accessible portals.


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