As an engineer, Emmanuel VILLERS has a long lasting and international experience in Intelligence for Naval Defence Industry. Since 2006, he has set up the Maritime Security Department in the EADS Defence & Security Division in Paris and is responsible to develop this activity, promoting worldwide the EADS IMARSEC™ offer (Integrated MARitime SECurity).

Maritime Security: the Integrated Security Systems answer

The importance of maritime trade cannot be underestimated and has increased progressively over the past 15 years. Nevertheless, although globalisation has introduced new opportunities, it has also introduced to ports, coasts and seas new threats such as piracy, illegal immigration, trafficking or terrorism against a variety of vital assets.
The maritime stakeholders have to face simultaneously complex threats, constraining international rules and multiple organizations involved in security. This explains why today, customers demand for an integrated and operational solution to their global concerns.
This presentation will explain, for ports and coastal areas examples, how the EADS IMARSEC™ offer (Integrated MARitime SECurity) can discriminate threats, detect over the horizon and integrate the information into a national command centre.