Expert System has just joined AFCEA –Armed Forces Communications and Electronic Associations, Rome - an international association that aims to promote “active communication between the government, the military, the media, and other types of industry associated with the world of (tele)informatics.”
Latest news
OSINT Budget official picked for top cybersecurity post
The Seattle Times, 5-17-2012
The White House has selected the head of the intelligence branch in its budget office to be President Barack Obama's top adviser on cybersecurity issues, a move that comes as Congress and the Obama administration are at odds over how best to protect critical U.S. industries from crippling electronic attacks by cybercriminals, foreign governments and terrorists.
OSINT NSA Analyst: "We Could Have Prevented 9/11"
Huff Post, 5-14-2012
Thomas Drake, a brilliant intelligence analyst, software engineer, and IT management consultant, worked at the CIA in the 1980s, then as a contractor at the National Security Agency (NSA), and ultimately as an NSA senior executive in 2001. But from 2006 until July 2011, he became the government's and NSA's public enemy.
OSINT Behind Foiled Jet Plot, Stronger Saudi Ties
The Wall Street Journal, 5-9-2012
RIYADH-U.S. and Saudi intelligence services are sharing security information and surveillance technology in their covert operations against Yemen's branch of al Qaeda, according to people familiar with this cooperation, describing operations on a scale unimagined in the years of mutual blame for security failures surrounding the attacks of Sept. 11, 2011.
Intelligence (or information activity) is a way of gathering and analyzing information to support decisions and strategies.
All countries employ intelligence (in particular Open Source Intelligence, OSINT) for the activities of defence and Homeland Security, but it has also become an essential element and a critical success factor for the corporate world.
The pursued goals and the threats to be faced tend to be diversified, but for both the problem is the same: having to examine large volumes of ever-changing data, in order to find useful clues at the right moment. Such clues are contained in texts, conversations, news, email, web pages etc, i.e. unstructured information, more difficult to manage compared to data organized in a database.
Cogito Intelligence Platform is the Expert System suite that applies semantic analysis to support analysts and knowledge workers in all the phases of the intelligence process: establishing policies, acquisition, selection, ranking, exploitation, evaluation, validation, dissemination.
Cogito Intelligence Platform can process structured and unstructured data as well, acquired through HUMINT (HUMan INTelligence), IMINT (IMagery INTelligence), MASINT (MeAsurement and Signature INTelligence), COMINT (COMmunication INTelligence), ELINT (ELectronic INTelligence), SIGINT (SIGnal INTelligence) and OSINT (Open Source INTelligence).
