Next week on 19th and 20th May, PUBLIC is hosting its first defence and innovation summit: Defence Disrupted. Joined by an inspirational line-up of speakers including leading defence stakeholders, decision makers, and cutting-edge entrepreneurs from around the world, the summit will explore the cutting edge trends taking place within the Defence sector.
The Netherlands is at the forefront of the transformation of defence and security services. In 2018, the Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid published ‘Innovating and Innovation-Oriented Procurement’, a document mapping the processes for scaling innovative ideas within the security ecosystem, including SBIR contests, pre-commercial procurement mechanisms and innovation partnerships. These innovations are supported by funding from the Budget and Management Plan for the police, which is making €50m available for innovative solutions and has helped to fund a range of initiatives. Notable among them is the official app of the Dutch police, Burgernet NL, which notifies users when an incident occurs, and shares information about missing people. The Netherlands National Police Unit also recently announced a pilot with Vuzix Corp, to introduce augmented reality to policing.
This week we are profiling two of the leading companies driving this transformation in the Netherlands: EclecticIQ and Pandora Intelligence.
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CASE STUDY - ECLECTICIQ - INTELLIGENCE POWERED CYBERSECURITY
EclecticIQ enables intelligence-powered cybersecurity for government organisations. They develop analyst-centric products and services that align their clients’ cybersecurity focus with their threat reality.
The ElecticIQ Platform is an analyst-centric threat intelligence platform that sits at the center of a threat intelligence practice, collecting information from open sources, commercial suppliers and industry partnerships. The platform allows users to automatically configure multiple intelligence feeds, enrich this data and build integration platforms for IT security controls. This helps analysts to understand the threats they face and perform faster, better, and deeper investigations, while disseminating intelligence at machine-speed.
EclecticIQ’s Fusion Center also delivers thematic intelligence bundles, which provide users with a curated single source of relevant cyber threat intelligence from leading suppliers. These products enable intelligence analysts to deliver actionable intelligence and support detection, prevention and incident response through existing security infrastructure.
EclecticIQ has partnered with Z-Cert as part of a consortium to boost threat intelligence information sharing between Dutch healthcare organisations, and with other national and international CERTs. As a reaction to the Coronavirus pandemic, EclecticIQ has also been making COVID-19-related threat data publicly available for public organisations. With such projects, they help the critical infrastructure of nation states to act as one, sharing instant information and predictive intelligence.
CASE STUDY - PANDORA INTELLIGENCE - SECURITY SOLUTIONS FROM UNSTRUCTURED DATA
Modern organisations are faced with unprecedented quantities of data. Hidden inside this data is valuable information that can be turned into actionable intelligence. Pandora Intelligence is a data-science company that generates a scenario-based predictive model to help anticipate crime and terrorist events from these untapped resources.
Pandora’s scenario-based approach to intelligence solutions takes place in three principal stages: combining the data of customers with in-house datasets; algorithmic data harvesting to extract knowledge; and, using this knowledge to compare scenarios and create new ones. By generating novel scenarios, Pandora challenges its clients to improve their security by exposing the narrative of a thinking enemy
Pandora currently serves 21 different clients. Among them are police forces, defense departments and security services. The company is currently collaborating with the Ministry of Justice and Security on the Life Story project; an attempt to bring together data from different security organisations in the Netherlands, including the Police, Probation Service and the Central Judicial Collection Agency in place for predictive analysis.
The Hague Security Delta recently selected Pandora as recipient of the Blue Tulip Award for the most innovative company in the field of security, and its new premium partner for the coming year.