News – Valcri

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

Gestoos won the 2nd place in the Cisco Innovation Grand Challenge

Ms Haider — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 19:03:06 +0000

Exipple Studio has some great news to share: Their product Gestoos won the 2nd place in the Cisco Innovation Grand Challenge out of 5718 total submissions from companies worldwide.

Exipple had the opportunity to meet the executive chairman of the Board, John Chambers, as well as CISCO’s CTO and the Innovation team. They started to formalise a partnership to accelerate their global expansion through CISCO’s network. The team is looking forward to begin this great collaboration.
Read the CISCO announcement here:
https://blogs.cisco.com/innovation/this-years-innovation-grand-challenge-winners-show-growth-maturity-and-diversity-of-digital-solutions-for-industry-and-government

First VALCRI Strategic Foresight and Scenario Planning Workshop for European police analysts

Ms Haider — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:17:36 +0000

The first VALCRI Strategic Foresight and Scenario Planning Workshop for European police analysts was carried out at Middlesex University in London from 31 Oct – 2 Nov 2016. The three-day workshop involved 22 police analysts from 6 European countries. The workshop leader, Chris Pallaris, Director of i-Intel, a partner of the VALCRI consortium, taught the course – which covered a variety of strategic forecasting and planning tools and techniques. Course participants used the frameworks to prepare strategic forecasts and assessments of their impacts on their Forces. The course was developed through i-Intel’s research in VALCRI. This course is one of the exploitable outcomes from the project that has already led to invitations from police forces to run similar courses at their sites but to be directly employed in the Force’s strategic planning activities. More courses will be trialled in next few months, for example, an Advanced Analyst Course to be held early November 2016 at the West Midlands Police.

Professor B.L. William Wong
Project Coordinator – VALCRI FP7-IP-608142
Head Interaction Design Centre
Middlesex University, London, UK

Engaging with stakeholders at the British Academy

Ms Haider — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 14:29:46 +0000

On the suggestion of our partners at West Midlands Police, VALCRI was invited by the C-LINK Network to present a talk and provide a demonstration of VALCRI at the recent British Academy Conference on ‘Using Behavioural Science to Target Prolific Criminals’, on 17-18 Oct 2016, in London. The Conference was focused around advancing our understanding of issues surrounding the accuracy and reliability of the algorithms for Comparative Case Analysis and Comparative Link Analysis. This has obvious overlaps with how VALCRI computes similarity measures, the use of a self-evolving ontology, and ElasticSearch.

This inter-disciplinary community of computer scientists, forensic psychologists, sociologists, criminologists, and police crime analysts, use Signal Detection Theory as the method for assessing accuracy. Estimating the Area Under the Curve (the Receiver Operating Characteristics or ROC curve), sensitivity thresholds, and the occurrence of false positives, help us understand the usefulness of the algorithms used to predict the likelihood of linkages between crimes, e.g. were two crimes committed by the same person. Many UK police forces attended. A joint scientific workshop with C-LINK and VALCRI is being considered for the new year.

IEEE Infovis 2016 Best Paper Honorable Mention

Ms Haider — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 13:11:57 +0000

A VALCRI research paper has been awarded Best Paper Honorable Mention at IEEE InfoVis, the premier venue for research in Data Visualization. The paper, entitled Map Lineups: Effects of Spatial Structure on Graphical Inference, considers perceptual biases introduced by Choropleth maps. As well as providing new evidence around how well humans are able to discern structure in maps, the paper contributes towards an emerging theory in data analysis of graphical inference. The award places the work amongst the top 3 of 165 papers submitted to this year’s InfoVis conference. The full paper, along with experiment data and analysis code, can be accessed from the paper’s website.

The paper will be presented on Tuesday, 25th Octoberin the InfoVis: Geovisualization paper session at IEEE InfoVis 2016 in Baltimore, US.

London – Hackathon 2016

Ms Haider — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 04:59:03 +0000

Between the 18th and 20th of July, a hackathon took place at Middlesex University, London. 12 people attended the hackathon. They looked into different issues regarding the assembly box, concept explorer, associative search, search bar, provenance components, touch interaction, 3D mid-air gestures, and how to integrate the different views into the new development branch.