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Counter-Terrorism in the UK
The threat of terrorism has created a need to enhance security services to prevent further atrocities being committed in the UK. Secure information management, the creation of intelligence and the sharing of that intelligence are fundamental in helping reduce this threat.
The government, in response to terrorism, has set an agenda which encompasses recent legislation in the shape of the Terrorism Act 2000 and the development of “CONTEST”, a long term counter-terrorism strategy built around the four ‘P’s: prevent, pursue, protect and prepare.
This is an unprecedented programme of work involving many government agencies. The strategy represents a multi-threaded policy with a clear aim of reducing the risk and impact of terrorism.
Traditional agencies, such as the intelligence communities and the police, are now joined by civil authorities and agencies to deliver a more integrated response to the threat.
The steps taken require those tasked with our safety and protection to have accurate, personalised and pertinent information delivered to them in a timely manner, wherever they may be. This information can then enable them to make decisions to prevent or seriously disrupt terrorist activity.
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The secure sharing of filtered information to create new knowledge, is a key element in the successful prosecution in the fight against terrorism.
To minimise risk and ensure a speedier adoption, HP suggests that an infrastructure which enables collaboration is what is required, not necessarily a big new system. Joining up the information can then be a pragmatic journey based upon business and operational needs, not technologically driven.
We understand that cultural change, process transformation and technology all have to come together to ensure that this vision is realised. Technology is not the barrier.
HP is a provider of solutions that can underpin the realisation of this vision. Systems that support collaboration and enable information sharing are crucial in meeting the threat created by terrorists acting on a global stage.
The key to this issue is to link and properly coordinate local assets, whilst maintaining the security of the service.
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HP’s Vision will: |
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Enable the sharing of information from many sources. |
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Ensure the ownership of this information can still reside with the individual organisations. |
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Ensure that information can be shared in a secure manner on a real-time basis. |
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Ensure that security issues are not an obstacle. |
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Ensure that all information and decisions can be tracked and are fully auditable. |
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Recognise that in an emergency people are not always in the office. |
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Provide a single, centralised view of the incident and the available response. |
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Be able to work across different security domains in an intuitive yet secure manner. |
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Hewlett Packard has extensive, proven experience of designing and developing solutions which combine flexibility with security, providing a working environment which supports the way people need to work.
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US Department of Justice
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Information sharing across multiple agencies. |
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Integration of wide variety of legacy systems. |
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Design showed how disparate systems could be integrated and information managed from all the different sources. Full project now being deployed in 2006. |
New York Police Department
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Deliver correct information to the officer at the right time so that they can understand the situation they are placed in.
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Coordinate the emergency services’ response. |
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Share information across wider government and agencies. |
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Real-time information enabled a joined-up response of the emergency services. |
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Information presented as a geospatial representation. |
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National Homeland Security Client
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Provide integrated threat indicators and intelligence. |
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Integrate immigration, police, border, military and other agencies with intelligence to prevent terrorist actions, including illegal entry. Maintain privacy rights.
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Based upon commercial products. |
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Quick access to critical information from all sources, preventing criminal actions.
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Available 24x7, no loss of data or data integrity. |
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An open, real-time solution. |
CWID 2005
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Cross-organizational boundary information sharing. |
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Infosec Policy-based security environment. |
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Publication of information into a controlled environment. |
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Sharing information between multiple-level security domains. |
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Collaborative work environment established based upon Microsoft "Federated Secure Collaboration Information Environment". |
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Information accessible to multiple agencies through Microsoft "Active Directory Federation". |
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Multi-level security environmental solution allowing cross-level sharing intuitively on a single screen. |
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Simple to use, commercial-off-the-shelf based. |
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Effective joined-up working across agencies. |
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Ownership of source information remains with owning authority. |
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More effective response to situations. |
Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstrator
| Portsdown West, June 2005 |
| HP and Microsoft participated jointly in the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) 2005, with a Federated Collaborative Information Environment showing how "trust-based" relationships among Police Forces, and between Forces and the Ministry of Defence, will: |
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Provide the context for rich, secure collaboration. |
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Allow the sharing of digital identities and access rights. |
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Provide a single sign-on experience for the user. |
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Give flexibility in making, breaking and re-forming trust between collaborating parties. |
| The demonstration took the form of computer-simulated role-play following the events within a scenario of heightened credible intelligence that indicated an imminent threat of a terrorist attack on UK mainland. |
Building a More Adaptive Internet Environment
To deliver better services, government agencies and departments need to be able to interoperate instantly and easily, and reach out effectively to citizens, businesses, suppliers and other organizations. A unified view with access from the Web can provide all this and more.
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