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Fivecast Honored with 2023 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Award

Fivecast recognized for Fivecast ONYX, taking home the Web Intelligence Award.

New York City, ISC East, Nov. 17, 2023 — Fivecast today announced it is the recipient of a 2023 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Award from American Security Today (AST) for its Fivecast ONYX solution.

Fivecast Tradecraft Advisor Evan Smith accepts the ASTORS Award for Web Intelligence.

American Security, Today’s Annual ‘ASTORS’ Awards, is the preeminent U.S. Homeland Security Awards Program, and now in its Eighth Year, continues to recognize industry leaders of Physical and Border Security, Cybersecurity, Emergency Preparedness – Management and Response, Law Enforcement, First Responders as well as federal, state, and municipal government agencies in the acknowledgment of their outstanding efforts to Keep our Nation Secure.

The ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program is specifically designed to honor distinguished government and vendor solutions that deliver enhanced value, benefit, and intelligence to end users in a variety of government, homeland security and public safety vertical markets.

The Annual ‘ASTORS’ program is specifically designed to honor distinguished government and vendor solutions that deliver enhanced value, benefit and intelligence to end users in a variety of government, homeland security and public safety vertical markets.

“As the nation continues to respond to escalating threats from home and abroad, the innovative solutions being implemented to meet those threats, has led to tremendous growth in the field of Homeland Security,” said Michael Madsen, co-founder and publisher of American Security.

“Today, the United States is increasingly focusing on protecting IT/cyber security networks and they are calling on innovative companies like Fivecast to help them do so.”

‘ASTORS’ nominations are evaluated on their technical innovation, interoperability, specific impact within the category, overall impact to the industry, relatability to other industry technologies, and application feasibility outside of the industry, ” according to Tammy Waitt, co-founder and editorial director of American Security Today.

Fivecast ONYX was selected as the winner in the Web Intelligence category for its ability to enable a safer world using open-source intelligence to be a force-multiplier for analysts across Law Enforcement, National Security, Defense Intelligence and more.

About Fivecast

The mission of Fivecast is to enable a safer world. As a world-leading provider of digital intelligence solutions, Fivecast helps the world’s most important public and private organizations explore masses of data, uncovering actionable insights which are critical to protecting global communities. Purpose-built to address the highest priority use cases in the national security, law enforcement, defense, corporate security and financial intelligence markets, Fivecast deploys advanced data collection and AI-enabled analytics to solve the most complex intelligence challenges. Based in Australia and with an established presence in the US, the UK and Europe, Fivecast is part of the trusted Five Eyes alliance and was born out of a unique collaboration between Government agencies and world-leading research institutions to tackle big data challenges in national security and law enforcement.

About American Security Today

American Security Today (AST), the ‘New Face in Homeland Security™’, is the premier digital media platform in the U.S. Homeland Security and Public Safety Industry, focused on breaking news and in-depth coverage of the newest initiatives and hottest technologies in physical & IT security on the market today. AST highlights the most cutting-edge and forward-thinking security solutions across a wide variety of media products delivered weekly, and monthly to over 75,000 qualified government and security industry readers, essential to meeting today’s growing security challenges to ‘Secure our Nation, One City at a Time™’.

To learn more visit www.americansecuritytoday.com, or contact AST by email at admin@americansecuritytoday.com or phone 646-450-6027.