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White Paper WP-2017-12: Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) in the law enforcement sector according to Directive (EU) 2016/680 – A comparative analysis of methodologies

Ms Haider — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 12:26:58 +0000

Keywords

Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), law enforcement, EU Directive 2016/680, Visual Analytics

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VALCRI-WP-2017-12 DPIA Guidelines – Methodological Comparison

Demo tour

valcriTeam — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 10:57:57 +0000

VALCRI has recently been showcased at various events and to law enforcement agencies across Europe, Australia, Hong Kong, and the US. The system was well received and often compared against other analysis systems such as iBase, COPLINK, and Palantir. While the systems have some common functionality, VALCRI was praised for the ease with which it allowed performing analytical tasks.

Prof. William Wong, Aleksandra Bielska and Chris Pallaris showcasing to Hong Kong Police Force, August 2017. Technical members of the audience were impressed by the speed at which over a million records processed remotely in London to provide analytics.

Baltic security and law enforcement professionals demo, September 2017.

VALCRI stand within the 2017 edition of The IEEE Visualization Conference held in Phoenix, Arizona.

Second Mid-Term Review Completed

Ms Haider — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 12:12:55 +0000

VALCRI has completed its second Mid-Term Review (MTR-2). The review was held in Brussels on 24 March 2017. The Consortium presented the integrated prototype.

VALCRI in the News, May 2017

Ms Haider — Mon, 22 May 2017 07:37:28 +0000

The New Scientist’s article: AI detective analyses police data to learn how to crack cases.

West Midlands Police Tweets: Exiting New Developments

Ms Haider — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 14:18:54 +0000

Exciting new developments by https://t.co/x4neUGdsSY being tested by @WMPolice intelligence and performance analysts #insights pic.twitter.com/mlk1628rFL

— Esther Martin (@Baggieboysrule) March 7, 2017

OpenPMF 4.0 – patented technology from partner Object Security and VALCRI launched at RSA 2017

Ms Haider — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 15:05:31 +0000

The launch of our new OpenPMF 4.0 Security Policy Automation Platform during RSA 2017 was a great success

The new OpenPMF 4.0 release was very well received by the press, by new and existing clients, partners and the ecosystem.

“One of the best launch events at RSA 2017. A real proven product without the hype and snake oil you see too often. OpenPMF Security Policy Automation is here to stay.” – John Mullen, CEO, Promia, Inc.

“OpenPMF 4.0 is in a league by itself, including the only security policy automation platform with natural language policies… “ – Mike Davis, CISO,ABS & Cyber Evangelist

“OpenPMF 4.0 provides comprehensive security policy management. RTI is looking forward to partner with ObjectSecurity to secure DDS-based systems.“ – Stan Schneider, CEO, RTI, Inc.

Everyone at ObjectSecurity would like to thank you for your support during the OpenPMF 4.0 launch events!

What is next?
This new release launch was just the start. We will continue to move cybersecurity forward by helping new clients worldwide with implementing their technical security policies – and by supporting and educating the global market with security automation events like webinars, technical and industry information and great products like OpenPMF and OpenPMF Security Policy Auditor.

Security Policy Automation 360
One of the first events you can sign up for is our very well-received Security Policy Automation 360 webinar series. Our webinars will help you to understand the benefits and advantages of security automation and in particular security policy automation. This one hour webinar is free and is a “must attend” for CISO’s, CIO’s and security managers and directors.

Sign-Up Today
To find out more and to sign-up for the Security Policy Automation 360 webinars go here.

The ObjectSecurity team wants to thank you again for your support during the OpenPMF 4.0 launch events. To experience virtually what happened during the launch, go to the OpenPMF 4.0 Launch Events Recap pages here.

Thanks, and please let me know if you have any questions.

With regards,
Ulrich

Ulrich Lang
CEO/Founder
ObjectSecurity LLC

PhD Week Review

Ms Haider — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:27:13 +0000

Between the 23rd and 26th of January a couple of events took place in the course of a PhD week at Middlesex University, London. A lecture on human-factor based design principles on the first day made the start, followed by a demo-session of the VALCRI system. On the second day presentations of the PhD students included an overview of their work and updated research questions. Valuable discussions and feedback helped to plan future work and individual meetings enabled to work on concrete problems. The results of these workshops were manifold from ideas on dissemination to new studies to be planned.

White Paper WP-2017-011: Applying Visual Interactive Dimensionality Reduction to Criminal Intelligence Analysis

Ms Haider — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 11:04:45 +0000

VALCRI provides a challenging and overwhelming high-dimensional dataset that comprises of hundreds of extracted semantic features in addition to the usual spatiotemporal information or metadata. To overcome the curse of dimensionality and to generate low-dimensional representations of these semantic features we apply interactive high-dimensional data analysis techniques with the goal of obtaining clusters of similar crime reports. However, it is still a challenge for crime analysts to make sense of the results and to provide useful interactive feedback to the system. Therefore, we provide several tightly integrated interactive visualizations that allow the analysts to identify clusters of similar crimes from different perspectives and interactively focus their analysis on features or crime records of particular interest.

Keywords

Criminal Intelligence, High-Dimensional Data Analysis, Feature Extraction, Dimensionality Reduction, Visual Analytics

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VALCRI-WP-2017-011 Interactive Visual Dimension Reduction

White Paper WP-2017-010: Roadmap for the Operationalization of Legal and Privacy Requirements in VALCRI Analysis

Ms Haider — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 11:03:35 +0000

This White Paper seeks to illustrate how the LEP guidelines and several legal requirements are set to be further operationalized in the VALCRI project. Based on VALCRI’s data management policy for the live data tests of February 2017, it formulates technical solutions and concrete measures to meet legal data protection requirements adapted to the working environment of criminal analysts.

Keywords

Visual Analytics, Criminal Intelligence Analysis LEP Guidelines, Crime, Analytics, Data Management, Data Protection Principles, Operationalization.

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VALCRI-WP-2017-010 Operationalisation Legal

White Paper WP-2017-009: Analytical Provenance for Criminal Intelligence Analysis

Ms Haider — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:55:44 +0000

In criminal intelligence analysis to complement the information entailed and to enhance the transparency of the operations, it demands logs of the individual processing activities within an automated processing system. Management and tracing of such security sensitive analytical information flow originated from tightly coupled visualizations into visual analytic system for criminal intelligence that triggers huge amount of analytical information on a single click, involves design and development challenges. To lead to a believable story by using scientific methods, reasoning for getting explicit knowledge of series of events, sequences and time surrounding interrelationships with available relevant information by using human perception, cognition, reasoning with database operations and computational methods, an analytic visual judgmental support is obvious for criminal intelligence. Our research outlines the requirements and development challenges of such system as well as proposes a generic way of capturing different complex visual analytical states and processes known as analytic provenance. The proposed technique has been tested into a large heterogeneous event-driven visual analytic modular analyst’s user interface (AUI) of the project VALCRI (Visual Analytics for Sensemaking in Criminal Intelligence) and evaluated by the police intelligence analysts through it’s visual state capturing and retracing interfaces. We have conducted several prototype evaluation sessions with the groups of end-users (police intelligence analysts) and found very positive feedback. Our approach provides a generic support for visual judgmental process into a large complex event-driven AUI system for criminal intelligence analysis.

Keywords

Analytic Provenance, Visual Analytics, Transparency, Visualization Design, Sensemaking.

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VALCRI-WP-2017-009 Provenance