Data Aggregation, Curation and analytics for security and situational awareness

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Bespoke Solutions for Data Curation, Analysis, Dissemination, and Visualization
PrescientTraveler™ leverages decades of success in high-stakes intelligence operations,
irregular warfare, crisis management, threat analysis, and complex systems design to keep
international travelers safe. Purpose-built software and advanced analytic systems are used to
aggregate, evaluate, distribute, and visualize threat and safety-related information.
DATA AGGREGATION, CURATION, AND ANALYSIS FOR
SAFETY SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
SECURITY & Emergent Threat Detection and Incident Alerting
 Continuous Monitoring of Asset-Threat Proximities
 Venue-specific Threat and Business Continuity Assessments
 Low-bandwidth, Secure Communications

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Bespoke Solutions for Data Curation, Analysis, Dissemination, and Visualization
DATA AGGREGATION, CURATION, AND ANALYSIS FOR
SAFETY SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
SECURITY &Flexible Models and Processes
Scalability
High Availability (DR/HA)
DEMANDS

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Bespoke Solutions for Data Curation, Analysis, Dissemination, and Visualization
DATA AGGREGATION, CURATION, AND ANALYSIS FOR
SAFETY SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
SECURITY &Flexible Models and Processes
Scalability
High Availability (DR/HA)
DEMANDS
TECH-HUMAN BALANCE (FOR BUSINESS PERFORMANCE)

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5. Mobile App Features and Capabilities
• Real-time threat alerts for your location & demographics
• Real-Time tracking and monitoring of travelers
• Country and City based reporting
• Selected points of interest and safe sites
Prescient Traveler Mobile Application
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6. While production analytics and operational
data are managed on premises,
autonomous failover to a remote data
center (on a different segment of the
national power grid) provides disaster
resilience. High Performance, Availability,
and Scalability were core design
requirements.
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Failover
Sites
Real-time Worldview for Safety and Security Stakeholders
sys·tem /ˈsistəm/ noun
1. a set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole.

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A Few Basic Questions that we all face
What is the problem to be solved?
Will the solution fit within a viable business
model?
What tools are best suited for the work to be
done?
How much is known, unknown but knowable,
and unknowable?
I.e. How complete is your model?

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A Few Basic Questions
What is the problem to be solved?
Improve Traveler Safety and Business
Continuity
Will the solution fit within a viable business
model?
Yes, with sufficient automation
What tools are best suited for the work to be
done?
For Prescient: Hadoop, SAP HANA,
MongoDB, NiFi
How much is known, unknown but knowable,
and unknowable?
I.e. How complete is your model?
Guestimate: 5%, 70%, 25%

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A Few Basic Questions
What is the problem to be solved?
Improve Traveler Safety and Business
Continuity
Will the solution fit within a viable business
model?
Yes, with sufficient automation
What tools are best suited for the work to be
done?
For Prescient: Hadoop, SAP HANA,
MongoDB, NiFi
How much is known, unknown but knowable,
and unknowable?
I.e. How complete is your model?
Guestimate: 5%, 70%, 25%
Project Phase 1 2 3
We Are Here

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Deeper Questions
How do you figure out what you know? Model → Ingest/Collect → Test → Refine → Repeat
What must you do to convert unknowns in to
knowns?
Extract Signal from Noise
What can you do to mitigate the risks created
by the unknowable?
Interpolate + Infer + Hypothesize
How much is known, unknown but knowable,
and unknowable?
I.e. How complete is your model?
Guestimate: 5%, 70%, 25%
Inference
PredictiveProject Phase 1 2 3
We Are Here

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Deeper Questions
How do you figure out what you know? Model → Ingest/Collect → Test → Refine → Repeat
What must you do to convert unknowns in to
knowns?
Extract Signal from Noise
What can you do to mitigate the risks created
by the unknowable?
Interpolate + Infer + Hypothesize
How much is known, unknown but knowable,
and unknowable?
I.e. How complete is your model?
Guestimate: 5%, 70%, 25%
Inference
PredictiveProject Phase 1 2 3
We Are Here

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Entities of Special Interest & Foundational Concepts
• Location – Geographic area characterized by cultural norms,
taboos, and chronic or emergent threats
• Traveler – Person with exploitable attributes, proximities to
threats, and an associated risk profile
• Itinerary – Traveler’s scheduled exposures to threats
• Threat Parameterization – Proprietary process by which threat
vectors are correlated with traveler attributes
Partially expanded data models upon which
linguistic, geospatial, and multi-variable
analyses are performed using SAP HANA,
Hadoop, and a variety of purpose-built tools.
Hundreds of defined entities and the
thousands of relationships between
them permit, among other things:
• Automated Entity Extraction for
Threat Detection and Identification
• Sentiment Analysis on Social Media
and News Feeds
• Threat-Proximity Alerting
• Quantification of Exposure Across
Threat Domains, Locations, and
User Populations
A small region of the
PrescientTraveler™ Ontology
Data Modeling for Advanced Analytics

13. Locate, Curate, Organize, Analyze, and Produce Information that Helps Users
stay safe and remain productive
Asset profiles and itineraries are correlated with
parameterized threats. Cultural and Safety
Parity Assessments are performed for Home and
Destination Locations.
Myriad sources are curated then translated into risk-mitigating recommendations.
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... + RSS Feeds + Social Media + Breaking News + Crime, Health, and Disaster Statistics + Economic Stability Indicators + ...
Proprietary Interfaces, Applications, and Methods
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14. Below The Surface
Advanced Tools for Big Data Aggregation and Analysis
Event-Driven
Realtime
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As of 08:00 CST on 24 JUNE 2016, a total of 48,217 distinct threat data sources had been indexed and ingested by the Prescient Platform
PT API DB
A BA B
QGIS
Proprietary
Parsers
PostGIS
ArcMap
SMART DATA ACCESS
Locations of Interest, Profiles, Timelines
REST API
PrescientTraveler Applications
Content
Builder
Dashboard
Mobile
MongoDB
Data Curation
Toolset
(DCT with NiFi)
REST API
Client
Authentication
Examples of Realtime Alerts
• Significant Environmental Events
• Infrastructure Shortfalls
• Civil Unrest
• Terror Attacks
• Emerging Pandemics
• Geopolitical Instabilities
RSS
Social Media
Local Sources
Crime Stats
Economic Data
News
Forums
...
...
Public Bulletins
Case Studies
...

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36. Protection of
international
travelers
requires real-
time,
actionable data
that is
analyzed and
simplified by
human experts.We’re Prescient,
and we’re humanizing
intelligence.
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