how hadoop enables analytics for law enforcement and national security
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The US National Security enterprise must fight and win the nation’s wars, protect and defend Americans citizens and US friends and allies, at home and abroad, and preserve the US democratic form of government and fee markets. Government leaders, although facing different budgetary and institutional goals and constraints than actors in the commercial world, must come to terms with the volume, velocity, and variety of data in the world and across their enterprises. Hadoop has recently arrived in federal office buildings in a big way, at least as a term to be discussed if not yet a data store deployed. As of June 2013, Hadoop appears destined for widespread adoption in the federal government, although the path forward remains uncertain. This session will provide a strategic view of the US federal government “big data” landscape as a marketplace, and suggest areas for highest return on investment for the national security community. Focusing on analytics—the use cases and the end customer at the “pointy end of the spear” seems likely to illuminate the most efficient way forward. Gary M. Shiffman is an economist, professor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and CEO of Giant Oak, a data analytics company focusing on detecting fraud, crime, insurgency, terrorism, and other forms of organized theft and violence.TRANSCRIPT
Dr. Gary M. ShiffmanPresident and CEO
Giant OakBackground:• Georgetown University• The Chertoff Group• L-3• US Customs and Border Protection• US Senate • Pentagon and US Navy Gulf War
Veteran
War Among the People
Complex Threat Vectors-- but all human
Ahmed Ressam
Mohamed al-Kahtani Mohamed Atta
Data => reaction l action
Challenge = Opportunity
Privacy, Civil Liberties
Assessment: hadoop is Inevitable
• HAWHAT? • Big Data Big Errors• Cloud ≠ Cloud Analytics• Share and Control Data• No “Easy” Button, Yet?
Gary M. Shiffman
Giant Oak• Big data• Behavioral science• Bad guys
