TrapWire is a unique, predictive software system designed to detect patterns of pre-attack surveillance and introduce the basis for a paradigm shift in the methodologies traditionally applied to securing critical infrastructure and personnel; a paradigm shift from the currently accepted and widely adopted philosophy of damage mitigation through increased physical security to a new and proactive approach of attack prevention through the identification and disruption of pre-attack planning and surveillance activities.

TrapWire was specifically designed to enable security personnel and law enforcement officials to detect patterns of behavior and anomalies indicative of pre-attack surveillance activity and to issue threat warnings in sufficient time to prevent an attack. A unique rules-based engine encapsulates terrorist surveillance methodologies and employs them to analyze suspicious event reports as they are collected over periods of time and across multiple locations. Through the systematic capture of suspicious events and the correlation of those events with activities recorded by public and private facilities across a network, terrorist or criminal surveillance operations can be identified, appropriate law enforcement counter measures employed, and steps taken to apprehend the perpetrators, thereby preventing the attack.