19 Jul 2010 | Ref. 166/2010
“Enhanced security in the current economic climate can only be achieved through innovating information intelligence,” says Detica
19 July 2010
Farnborough, UK – Detica, a BAE Systems company, today outlined its vision for achieving enhanced security, at lower cost, through groundbreaking information innovation. The company proposed a dual focus on exploiting and defending information and suggested looking at innovation in two key areas – delivering far more value from all information that is currently available and, equally, defending this information in the face of exposure to increasingly advanced, sophisticated and asymmetric threats, particularly from cyber space.
Across Government, the Armed Forces and in those businesses that are critical to our Nation’s success and security, it will be key to leverage existing data more effectively, use advanced analytics and take a data driven approach to enable information to work far harder than it has to date. Only by doing this will we be able to meet the contemporary threats at a time of increased pressure on resources.
Detica is exploring how this approach can be used to identify efficiencies in the support of military capability. If applied to the extensive volumes of supply chain, maintenance, failure and usage data that is collected on platforms, when enriched with other information - such as personnel involved - it is possible to identify previously unidentified root-causes of failure that can be used to reduce waste from the support chain and can bring significant cost rewards.
Tom Burton of Detica’s Defence Practice said: "Without collecting any new data, we have helped the British Army's personnel function to deliver direct benefits that were some ten times greater than the investment made in improving data governance and exploitation. On financial grounds alone, these returns should be sufficient motivation; when applied to missions where failure has a direct impact on life or national security, then the motivations are arguably overwhelming."
Detica also called for information intelligence innovation to focus on the protection and defence of information. In its work with a number of Government and commercial contracts, it has seen evidence that only by innovating will we be able to tackle the growing threats from cyber space that are increasingly on clients’ agendas and, more broadly, are having an impact on the economy as intellectual property and commercial information are stolen.
Henry Harrison, Technical Director at Detica said: “There has been an astounding period of innovation in the way we use and depend on information and communications systems - frequently known as "cyber space". Our adversaries are innovating at a furious pace and we have to fight innovation with innovation. Organisations have to accept that they are under siege and that determined attackers - whether criminals, activists or others - will ultimately succeed in penetrating their defences. “
Detica is working with its customers to put in place operations to catch these ‘cyber spies’ to help them detect infiltrations as early as possible so that they can be expelled before they have had time to identify and steal the most valuable information.
To find out more, please visit www.detica.com/en/insights to view white papers on the themes above, including “Cyber attack: death by a thousand cuts” and “Readiness and sustainment: exploiting data to achieve greater mission success”.
About Detica
Detica specialises in collecting, managing and exploiting information to reveal actionable intelligence. We use this capability to help government and commercial clients reveal intelligence, maintain security and strengthen resilience in today's complex operating environment. We also use our skills to assist clients with other information-intensive problems such as achieving regulatory compliance and understanding customer behaviour.
Detica is a BAE Systems company.
For further information, please visit www.detica.com.
Detica and Detica Limited product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of Detica Limited in the UK and in other countries. Other brand and product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies. Detica Limited is registered in England under number 1337451 and has its registered office at Surrey Research Park, Guildford, England, GU2 7YP.
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For more information:
Natasha Davies
020 7812 4274
07709 019 290
Natasha.davies@detica.com
Rachel Ringstead:
020 7853 2289
rachel.ringstead@porternovelli.co.uk
