Our survey respondents acknowledge that finding employees with the right technical capability is a major challenge, along with having too many disparate sources and having difficulty connecting those sources.
National security today is a large-scale data problem. Cyber is now a major battlespace. Traditional intelligence domains of SIGINT, HUMINT are being augmented by OSINT sources. The merging of classified information with open sources of information is now a critical part of the national security landscape.
Much of Law Enforcement is a searching exercise. Looking for useful data when investigating crime with digital forensics, electronic documents, email, complete digital footprints. Tactical investigation or broader Policing Intelligence is such a huge challenge for many Law Enforcement agencies. Often trying to process unrelated data with 30 year old desktop technology is very challenging and it is today a challenge for every Law Enforcement Agency in the world.
Fraud, insider threats and risk are huge issues for corporations globally. Many corporates are struggling with the scale of the fraud, risk and threat dynamic internally. They are standing up teams to act as an internal policing service for these threats. The trend is for cyber threat, fraud, financial crime and internal risk to come under a single operating unit to manage these corporate level risks. These units are now struggling to find a single unified platform to manage all the challenges they have on front of them.
Those tasked with protecting the most sensitive and critical networks are proactive in their threat stance. They have lots of data, internal, vendor data, free open sources. But out of billions of rows of data how do you stay alert to what is relevant and a real and present threat? How do you know what matters? What if you miss something very subtle?
Our smartest customers get 70% of their time back so they can focus on their missions instead of battling with “swivel chair” searches.