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Secret Service procures new software to analyze huge amounts of identity data Thu, 2011-06-30 12:47 PM By: Jacob Goodwin <http://www.gsnmagazine.com/author/3134/jacob_goodwin> http://www.gsnmagazine.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/Informati ca%20WEB.JPG The U.S. Secret Service has purchased an advanced tool, known as Informatica's Identity Resolution (IIR), which is a robust, highly scalable software that enables government organizations to search and match identity data from more than 60 countries in batch and real-time. The Secret Service now needs to install the latest version of this IIR software and migrate its existing data from an earlier system, known as the Informatica Data Clustering Engine. According to Informatica Corp. <http://www.informatica.com/> , a company based in Redwood City, CA, its IIR software can enable a government agency to "correctly identify entire populations or a particular segment -- such as citizens, legal residents, overseas visitors, employers or employees, registered organizations, and multinationals." The IIR installation and migration effort will take place at the Secret Service's headquarters at 950 H Street, NE, in Washington, DC. "By its very nature, identity data is subject to unavoidable error and variation that can compromise the performance of basic identity search and match processes, generating false positives or missing matches entirely," explains Informatica on its company Website. "In addition, most large identity databases now contain identity data from multiple languages, countries and cultures that often have different structures, follow different parsing rules, and have different variation characteristics. Also, if transliteration, Romanization, character set conversion and other such transformations are employed, a new class of error and variation is introduced. The key to effective software, says the company, is overcoming spelling and phonetic errors, while offering sufficient speed to provide high-volume searches. In a solicitation <https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=b124f2737a9c0cc694834d73a54 eb878&tab=core&_cview=0> it released on June 28, the Secret Service did not spell out precisely what kinds of data it plans to crunch with its new IIR software. "Software is used to analyze and group diverse data records into clusters," the Secret Service explained. "This data is increasingly important in developing strategies for deterring and preventing crime, as well as developing tactical plans for dealing with today's crimes and security measures." Informatica points out that in order to conduct such searches, an organization's IT team "must be able to search and match identity data records from multiple countries that use different alphabets -- such as Latin, Arabic, and Cyrillic." With 20 years of experience in the field, Informatica says its solutions can help a government agency "search, match and link identities within a single database or across multiple sources and multiple languages despite intentional or random variations in the data." Further information about this IIR installation effort is available from Gregory James, the Secret Service's project manager, at 202-406-9330 or gregg.ja...@usss.dhs.gov. <mailto:gregg.ja...@usss.dhs.gov> In a separate procurement, the Secret Service announced on June 29 that it wants to acquire <http://www.gsnmagazine.com/node/%20http:/www.secureview.us/secureview3> Secure View 3 software, a tool for the cell phone forensic investigator, including svProbe investigative technology and a one-year maintenance and support contract. Using the svProbe capabilities, a Secret Service cell phone examiner can collect all sorts of useful information. "Data is sorted by contact (phone book entry), call history (outbound and in-bound calls), message (SMS-text, MMS-text with an attachment, and Email), calendar, and other data (internet history)," says the supplier, Susteen, Inc. <http://www.mobileforensics.com> , of Irvine, CA, on its Website. "The examiners have the ability to filter the period of time, enter/load as many key words as needed, pick from normal or timeline views, and drill down on data details." The solicitation for Secure View 3 envisions a 100 percent small business set-aside contract, says the Secret Service. The software will be delivered to the National Computer Forensics Institute in Hoover, AL. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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