Tag Archive for ‘Persons of Interest’

A Reference Architecture for Connecting the Dots

Intelligence, national security, and law enforcement organizations have bits and pieces of the numerous technologies, including visual analytics, enterprise search and event processing. What’s lacking is a clear vision of how to effectively combine those pieces to solve intelligence and security challenges.

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.

Entity Resolution to Build a Better “Watch List”

Commentators have recently been calling for better information sharing. Information sharing is clearly a necessary part of the solution to prevent another terrorist attack, but it is not as easy as it sounds. Entity resolution and probability must be involved to really create an effective “watch list” system.

Connecting the Dots Before Boarding

Stopping a person from carrying a device on a plane is a good thing but is really one of the last lines of defense. While accessing and assimilating information about a person of interest is daunting – especially with millions of daily travelers – it’s possible.

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?

More Nuts and Bolts for Entity Resolution Success

When evaluating entity resolution, what must you take into account? This is part two of Jonathan McDonald’s list of the tools you need to succeed.

Agencies Sharing Information with Entity Resolution

One of the largest entity resolution implementations to date is the FBI’s National Data Exchange (N-DEx) Program – a criminal justice information sharing system that will provide nationwide connectivity to disparate local, state, tribal, and federal systems for the exchange of information.