Tag Archive for ‘Identity Resolution’

Stay Alive with Information Sharing

Alex Eastman recalls a childhood game, and ponders how information sharing among government and law enforcement agencies can help ensure you don’t lose your marbles.

Uniqueness in the Eye of the NSTIC

The White House just released a draft of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). Jeff Huth examines how government must consider “uniqueness” while identifying Joe Citizen.

Recap: Connecting the Dots Isn’t What It Used to Be

Initiate recently hosted a webinar, Connecting the Dots Isn’t What It Used to Be, discussing how the definition of accuracy has changed as the intelligence community faces new challenges. Alex Eastman recaps the webinar and the resulting Q&A, and offers a link to the replay.

Connecting the Dots Isn’t What It Used to Be

Today, there is an intense push for accuracy in our data and, particularly, in our ability to accurately “connect the dots.” More information and more fragmented data is leading data analysts to look for ways to link information together to improve accuracy thereby improving the usefulness of systems depending on that data. Join us for this webinar to learn how we’re addressing the problem.

Hot Topics from Palantir GovCon5

Initiate recently attended Palantir’s GovCon5 in Tyson’s Corner. Jeff Huth was on site and had a few observations about the show’s hot topics.

Meeting an Olympic-Size Security Challenge

Imagine all the dots that must be connected in order to make an event like the Olympics a “non-event” from a security perspective. Imagine how much information must be accessed, correlated, matched and securely exchanged for everything to run smoothly. Scott Schumacher examines the three critical aspects for security: pre-event information analysis, personnel vetting, and a coordinated real-time reaction to any threat that may emerge.

Webinar: Relationships are the Lines that Connect the Dots

What is your data trying to tell you? In intelligence gathering, there is great value in understanding non-obvious relationships to multiple degrees of separation. Detecting non-obvious relationships – such as when two people share an address but not other identifying details – can be extraordinarily beneficial to law enforcement and counter-terrorism efforts.

What You Missed: Demystifying Multi-Cultural Name Matching

Our January 28 webinar, “Demystifying Multi-Cultural Name Matching in the Context of Entity Resolution,” drew quite a crowd, with attendees from various government agencies, systems integrators and consultants specializing in data quality and data governance issues. Download the replay to see what you missed.

Building a New Watchlist System

Perhaps more important than creating a tiered system of watchlists is developing means by which someone gets added to or removed from a list. If I was president of my own country and I wanted to build a new watchlist system, I would require the system to have two key characteristics: be dynamic, and risk-based.

Does Google Connect the Dots?

Data integration, along with entity resolution and complex event processing, should play a key role in counterterrorism and relieve some of the burden of manual processes that are required today to connect the dots. But can a search engine like Google handle the task?