RESTON, Virginia / Abraxas Applications is pleased to announce that version 4.0 of its flagship product, TrapWire^®, has been released to all domestic and international TrapWire customers.

TrapWire 4.0 includes a number of significant new features designed to assist security directors and law enforcement officials in protecting critical infrastructure and other high value targets by contributing materially to the prevention of terrorist attacks. These features include:

• A new dashboard-style home page providing the user with immediate access to site-specific threat profiles, current intelligence information, and system usage data
• New information sharing capabilities, including network-specific Bulletin Boards, for distributing alerts and data regarding suspicious activity reports;
• New analysis tools to help identify and monitor incident trends;
• Additional training resources to alert users to various types of terrorist and criminal pre-attack behavior patterns.

TrapWire is a unique, state-of-the-art, predictive system that was designed to detect patterns of surveillance and pre-attack planning activity. TrapWire provides an easy to use, structured information collection and analysis capability supported by a proprietary rules engine which was designed by Abraxas personnel with extensive experience in the areas of counter-terrorist operations and intelligence collection practices. TrapWire was commercially introduced in 2007 and is deployed across a wide range of public and private facilities with the active involvement of federal and state and local law enforcement agencies. TrapWire and its associated services can be purchased by U.S. federal, state, and local agencies via the GSA Schedule (contract GS-35F-0501U).

Jack Reis, President of Abraxas Applications said, “The threat of terrorism is real and we are reminded of it virtually every day.  Coincident with these heinous reminders, there is growing recognition that to defeat terrorism and similar forms of criminal activity, we must intercede when the perpetrators are most vulnerable – during the pre-attack intelligence gathering and planning processes. Since TrapWire was introduced in 2007, as a technology and a methodology designed to exploit this vulnerability, our customer network has grown substantially. As a result, it is important for us to continue to implement new features to support the developing needs of our users as they seek the tools to help them identify and disrupt pre-attack planning and surveillance activities in an effort to prevent future attacks. We remain committed to further application and services enhancements as our network continues to grow.”

About Abraxas Applications

Abraxas Applications is a risk mitigation technology and services company that designs, builds and markets software products intended to prevent terrorist and other criminal attacks against critical infrastructure, key assets and personnel. TrapWire^®, the Abraxas Applications flagship product, leverages the company’s deep domain expertise in the areas of counterterrorism, surveillance operations, surveillance detection techniques, and intelligence analysis by enabling security personnel to detect patterns of pre-attack surveillance activity and issue threat warnings in sufficient time to intercede, apprehend the perpetrators and prevent attacks. Abraxas Applications is headquartered in Reston, Virginia and can be found on the web at www.abraxasapps.com.

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