In recent years, governmental organizations have been transforming the
way investigations are conducted. After working in siloed units and systems,
more and more organizations understand the need for collaboration,
Fusion of structured and unstructured data with vast capacities. Of course,
this methodology varies between different organizations and countries.
Today's all-source investigations include three main pillars:
Based on domain expertise and customer feedback, we have attempted
to profile the all-source analyst working on prospective and retrospective
investigations, including his leading traits and characteristics.
Most security organizations consist of multiple units that monitor the
same target, where each unit contributes its unique domain perspective.
In many organizations, the all-source desk leads the investigation. Most
organizations understand the need for collaboration between domains.
For organizations that have not yet reached this conclusion, it is easy to
demonstrate the value of having a unified all-source investigation picture.
This trend in no way diminishes the importance of other roles – the
Network Intelligence analyst, Web Intelligence analyst, or operational
teams. On the contrary, their unique expertise and powerful systems
are critical to all-source analysis and to taking the investigation to the
next level.
Prospective & retrospective investigations in which the
analyst is responsible for investigating events that have
occurred and assessing potential risks.
Insight extraction in which the analyst gathers data-
driven insights to support and enrich an upcoming
operation.
Strategic research in which the analyst provides prediction
and analytics from a ‘birds’ eye view.’
After speaking with our customers, we can cite the many challenges of the all-source analyst:
Extract insights from different domains,
analyze them and integrate them into a
single comprehensive picture
Discover the unknown - meaning targets
that are, as of yet, unnamed
Use the holistic investigation picture to
identify possible threats
Gain an in-depth 360° understanding of
targets, including their activities, locations,
connections, motives and intentions
Predict possible target intentions in an
effort to prevent incidents
Identify patterns and anomalies
in targets’ behavior
Ask the right questions and provide search guidelines for others –
to gain an intelligence picture with maximum accuracy
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