Tag Archive for ‘Identity Resolution’

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?

The Need for Real-Time Border Security

Officials and commentators have suggested that the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day was the result of inadequate information sharing, a deficiency in acting on available intelligence, and an inability to connect the dots. This latest revelation suggests another failing: that our security and counterterrorism efforts are sluggish rather than real-time or predictive.

Complex Entities: Tracking a Vehicle Across State Lines

Entities of interest can extend beyond individuals, vehicles or weapons. Tracking each of these can be very valuable to law enforcement or other authorities. Learn about complex entities and tracking a white Chevy Malibu across state lines.

Keeping Entity Resolution Cost Effective

Especially with stretched budgets, make sure you get the most bang for your entity resolution buck. What makes up your total cost of ownership? Consider these points.

Unraveling the Knot

Often, authorities have a lot of information about a given person of interest. However, when each piece of data is tied to a different application, how do you unravel the knot to enable information sharing?