LONDON's CSO Alliance, a global digital network serving company security officers (CSOs), has been launched to provide a 'real time' coordinated approach in tackling maritime crime.
The network is designed to deploy interactive online tools to enable maritime CSOs to meet, share market intelligence, and assess the mutual risks their crews and assets face.
CSO Alliance shares information within a private and secure platform where over 12,000 CSOs manage security of 120,000 maritime assets.
Geospatial mapping is used to document incidents and attacks against ships, crew and cargo from around the world, aligned with an intuitive database, said the CS0 Alliance network.
Reports are provided by CSOs in addition to more than 30 regular sources, before being verified by an expert team, with each contributor vetted and credited.
"The uniqueness of the alliance lies in its increasing number of users, leveraging the suite of tools that accompany geospatial mapping to share intelligence, ideas and comments in a 'real time' forum.
"While captains rely on VHF to protect one another, CSOs now have their own web-based tool to instantly pick up on issues," said CSO Alliance director Mark Sutcliffe.
"Vitally, captains relaying an incident via their CSO and the alliance can inform an entire region in an instant," he said.
Said Thome Ship Management CSO Benny Low: "We hope that the CSO Alliance will share best management practices and push ahead unity as the main 'Security Body' to provide a clear voice in IMO Security Conventions."
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05 June 2014 - 20:57
Company security officers form online alliance to tackle maritime crime
LONDON's CSO Alliance, a global digital network serving company security officers (CSOs), has been launched to provide a 'real time' coordinated approach in tackling maritime crime.
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05 June 2014 - 20:57
Company security officers form online alliance to tackle maritime crime
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