Being Client First Means Showing Up: Samaritan Is Exhibiting at GSX 2026

Samaritan Protective Services will be exhibiting at ASIS International's Global Security Exchange (GSX) this year. While this is our first time exhibiting, we're no strangers to this gathering of the security industry's best and brightest.

From leading security technology to thought provoking workshops and networking, this is simply the place to be if security is part of your daily repertoire.

More Than a Trade Show

It's more than just another trade show. It gives us the opportunity to meet current and potential clients in a professional, open environment. Much can be learned from candid, unscripted conversations with clients: what's working, what needs improvement, and what they actually need from a provider. As a service and product provider, we have a responsibility to understand our clients' operating environment before offering solutions.

What most organizations miss about trade shows and industry conferences is how they can be a genuine opportunity to test assumptions, gauge market appetite, and gather real customer feedback, not simply repeat rehearsed marketing messages to close a sale. Those conversations let us improve our offering and provide real value to those who place their trust in Samaritan's services and protective intelligence capabilities. They help us understand our clients' pain points, determine whether we already have a solution that fits the need, and, if not, decide whether one can or should be developed.

When we set out to develop Samaritan Vigil™, our team set one clear guiding principle: customer feedback would dictate the platform's future capabilities. Period. GSX is a prime venue to meet with those on the fence about their security, executive protection, or protective intelligence solutions.

What We Learn From Being in the Room

When we speak with clients about their needs in person, we learn where their teams lose time evaluating evolving risks, and what makes an alert genuinely actionable versus just noise. One question we like to ask: "Which information gaps most often affect your operational decisions?" The answer helps drive our development priorities.

GSX 2026 is set to bring together 500+ exhibitors, each offering distinct expertise across the security industry. Last year's event, GSX 2025, drew nearly 15,000 registrants from 95 countries, a sign of how far this community now reaches. No single person or organization has every answer, or a complete solution, to the risks of today or tomorrow.

Learning From Our Peers Across the Industry

While sharing what we've learned with end users, we'll also have the opportunity to learn from our peers and benchmark emerging technologies and industry best practices. As physical, cyber, technology, information, and travel risk security increasingly intersect with protective intelligence, collaboration across the industry becomes even more important.

Samaritan Vigil™: Protective Intelligence for Lean Teams

Speaking of protective intelligence, and given that Samaritan is honored to exhibit this year, our focus will be on Samaritan Vigil™, our open source intelligence (OSINT) platform designed for lean teams, without the overhead or complexity of larger enterprise solutions.

With the advent of AI agents, low-cost news aggregation services, and scraping software, organizations no longer suffer from limited data. The real issue now is identifying what's truly credible, actionable, and verifiable.

What makes Samaritan Vigil™ different is that it was envisioned and built by practitioners, not a software sales team. Samaritan has been providing executive protection, travel risk management, and advisory services for over a decade, and we know what's needed by the people in the field doing the hard work: planning advances, running routes, and conducting risk analysis.

Samaritan Vigil™ was built to meet that need for actionable intelligence, and to make it accessible to organizations that have simply been priced out of enterprise platforms.

Now we get to demonstrate, in person, what Samaritan Vigil™ can do and how it's changing the landscape of protective intelligence globally, and to get immediate feedback as attendees challenge it with their own real world use cases.

What Samaritan Hopes to Achieve at GSX 2026

1. Better insight into the daily challenges security leaders face.
2. Direct feedback from practitioners that shapes Samaritan Vigil™'s roadmap.
3. A clearer view of where protective intelligence doctrine and technology are headed, and where today's capabilities still fall short.
4. Stronger customer support and closer collaboration with the teams who rely on Samaritan Vigil™ every day.

Samaritan believes that client first service begins with listening, and that starts with showing up.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is Samaritan exhibiting at GSX 2026?

To connect with existing clients and peers, and to showcase the capabilities of Samaritan Vigil™ to the security and risk management industry on a global scale.

What is Samaritan Vigil™?

Samaritan Vigil™ is our protective intelligence platform. It helps executive protection, corporate security, event management, and travel risk teams identify emerging threats, filter out irrelevant information, and make more informed operational decisions.

The platform brings real time monitoring, open source intelligence (OSINT), AI assisted sentiment analysis, geographic visualization, and configurable alerts into a single operating picture.

Who should visit Samaritan at GSX?

If you lead or are part of a lean security team, whether at a corporation, family office, security company, or government office, and you need real time, actionable intelligence without the overhead or complexity of larger platforms, Samaritan Vigil™ may be the solution you're looking for.

Where can attendees find Samaritan at GSX 2026?

The Samaritan team, including our Samaritan Vigil™ product manager, will be at Booth 1545 from September 14 to 16, 2026, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia.