Getting protected
The best-run companies are getting smarter about how they protect their employees from kidnappings, terrorism and other threats
AT ITS intelligence operations centre in Annapolis, Maryland, iJET watches the world. As banks of monitors pipe in satellite television feeds from Asia, Africa and the Middle East, specialist intelligence analysts sift streams of filtered information collected by the firm's information-technology systems from websites and news organisations. On a typical morning, one analyst might have a watchful eye on the spread of avian flu through Vietnam, while another checks reports of a kidnapping in Lesotho. Most of the centre's analysts are veterans of government intelligence and defence agencies, recruited in nearby Washington, DC, and Langley, Virginia, home of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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