C5IS reviews CSRA GangNET. With gangs contributing to some 80 percent of violent crimes in the U.S., analytics solutions that can identify and track criminals in real time are always popular with law enforcement. One player in this marketplace is Washington, DC-based CSRA. While primarily known as a private contractor serving the US Department of Defense and Intelligence … [Read more...]
Expert System – Grading Italy’s Deep Semantic Analysis Leader
C5IS reviews the Cogito Intelligence Platform, a deep semantic analysis solution by Italy's Expert System. Often forgotten in today's rush to embrace COMINT and SIGINT is that targets are recognizable not only for what they communicate but how they do so, a field known as deep semantic analysis. Among the leaders in semantic analysis is Expert System of Rovereto, … [Read more...]
NORSI-TRANS Vitok-CLUSTER: Data Retention, Analytics & Visualization
C5IS reviews the NORSI-TRANS Vitok-CLUSTER, a class act Data Retention solution for Big Data analytics and visualization. The NORSI-TRANS Vitok-CLUSTER solution is set to make a splash at ISS World Europe this week with a pair of product demonstrations. Variously described as a NoSQL database that provides real time access to streaming information - with Lambda architecture … [Read more...]
SYSTRAN: Mastering the Tower of OSINT Babel
C5IS reviews SYSTRAN, a market leader in machine translation for Military and Government Intelligence clients worldwide. While 100G monitoring systems can intercept data at unprecedented speeds, merely capturing content is, of course, not equivalent to understanding it. We live in a world of 6,500 languages. Of these, 10 are spoken by half the world’s population. Some 2,000 … [Read more...]
Verint Situational Awareness Platform – “Safe City”
C5IS reviews the Verint Situational Awareness Platform, a central hub integrating ISS, social media, OSINT and video surveillance for "safe city." Earlier this month, Verint made a big “to do” at the ISC West security conference about one of the company’s prize solutions - the Verint Situational Awareness Platform (VSAP), designed to help assure the “safe cities” … [Read more...]