Everbridge Risk Center - Global Highlights

Everbridge Global Highlights are brief, contextual reports of social, economic, travel risk, and geopolitical developments. Designed to complement our comprehensive analysis and real-time alerting, members use Everbridge Global Highlights to stay informed of world events that may affect corporate interests. The following is a list of event and topic categories specific to Everbridge Global Highlights and Everbridge Global Highlights briefing:

• Aviation & Air Travel
• Civil Unrest
• Crime
• Economic Development
• Environmental/Meteorological
• Fire/Explosion/HAZMAT
• Humanitarian
• Infrastructure
• Kidnapping
• Labor Action
• Maritime
• Military/Insurgent Activity
• Military Action
• Natural Disaster
• Political/Legal Development
• Protest
• Public Health
• Security Development
• Security Explosion
• Terrorism
• Transportation
• Travel Warnings and Restrictions

A single Global Highlights briefing may be:

• Assigned multiple categories when a development or event pertains to multiple topical issues, and/or,
• Tagged with multiple countries if a development, event or item impacts several different countries, a multi-national region or the entire world.

Global Highlights briefings are assigned a severity level on a five-point scale (Unknown, Minor, Moderate, Severe, Extreme). 

The category and severity of a Global Highlight can be viewed directly from the Situation Map, as shown here.

What You Need To Know

• Current Highlights– Within Global Highlights, the current day’s Highlights are grouped by region in alphabetical order. These brief, contextual reports provide timely details of social, economic, and geopolitical developments across the world. Events and topics that may be of extended duration may remain on the Global Highlights page for several days. In general, however, Highlights are created and appear throughout the day and night as conditions warrant and generally expire after 24 hours.

Global Highlights

• Search – The Global Highlights search tool enables users to search our archives for country- or region-specific Global Highlights and Analytical Briefs for a specific date or date range. Complete the desired fields to narrow your search criteria.

Analytical Briefs are a part of the optionally available Global Insights analysis module. Please contact your account manager for additional information.