Two years have passed since analytics guru Ravi Kalakota penned his now famous screed lampooning Big Data hype & the profusion of market entrants -- and soothsaying the inevitable bursting of the Big Data Bubble. Hasn’t happened yet, but that doesn’t mean Big Data analytics providers and government clients shouldn’t keep an eye open. In his Big Data Fatigue and Company … [Read more...]
Rasmussen Takes Over at National Counterterrorism Center
When the U.S. Senate approved the nomination of Nicholas J. Rasmussen as Director of the U.S. National Counterrorism Center (NCTC) on Dec. 18, the timing and nature of this momentous event fit the character of a man who has held vital positions at the highest reaches of The Intelligence Community -- but always quietly and in the background. Rasmussen's appointment was one of … [Read more...]
Lone Wolf Terrorist Attacks: Can Narus Help?
More than a decade has passed since public exposure of the NSA’s reliance on Narus deep packet inspection (DPI) to help analysts build connections that expose terrorist groups. Overall, the technology has proved invaluable. But whether it works for “lone wolf” attacks -- not as broadly devastating but every bit as high profile as massive terrorist assaults -- remains an open … [Read more...]
Raytheon: Driving Big Data Evolution for Local Police
A look at Raytheon’s Big Data solutions for law enforcement agencies shows that local police definitely benefit from leveraging analytics to pursue criminal investigations -- particularly when they share data with other police departments. The most common use of Big Data is to conduct searches for available data on a target: to identify patterns, detect anomalies and … [Read more...]
Palantir: Visualizing the Future of Crime and Terrorism
Is Big Data the next dot.com -- a field of limitless potential, spawning countless startups and true believers, and perhaps for those very reasons ripe for something to let the air out? Not if the Big Daddy of Big Data, Palantir, has anything to say about it. Big Data, in case you’ve missed the hype, is the result of rapid growth in the volumes/types of data, so extreme that … [Read more...]