Map Cyber Indicators for Data Analysis, Privacy, and Sharing

Although it is the responsibility of government to safeguard citizens from foreign and domestic cyber attacks, vulnerable systems are often not government owned. Ultimately, organizations in both the public and private sectors must protect their own data while cooperating to share information about cyber threats. Only then can we detect attack patterns, attribute sources of advanced persistent threats, and take a truly holistic approach to assessing the vulnerability of our nation’s critical infrastructure.

But the volume, velocity, variety, and complexity of these attacks pose a daunting challenge to information management. As such, analyzing threats can quickly become a big data problem. Fusing intelligence-driven security data from multiple sources and coupling it with big data analytics has the potential to help enterprises address the complexity of advanced cyber threats. To gather, categorize, handle, store, and analyze threat data, organizations require sophisticated technology.

The Informatica Cyber Security Solution for Federal Government

The Informatica cyber security solution offers federal government agencies the ability to fuse, enhance, and transform into real intelligence the vast amounts of cyber indicators they collect. Big data analytics provides the key to synthesizing a cohesive picture from all the separate pieces. Investing in data enrichment, integration, and analysis in the short term will allow the government to diffuse threats by providing insights and revealing relationships concealed in data over the long term.

With this comprehensive solution, you can:

• Access and analyze large volumes of cyber indicators across systems regardless of source or format, including structured and unstructured data
• Determine non-obvious relationships and patterns across threats and attacks
• Provide real-time threat information across the organization and to an external portal
• Extract insights and deliver intelligence quickly and securely to computer emergency readiness teams (CERTs) and other interested parties

Key Capabilities of the Informatica Cyber Security Solution for Federal Government

Unlike competing offerings, the Informatica solution directly supports the gathering of intelligence by discovering, distilling, and delivering the information needed to detect and prevent new threats. This solution integrates, moves, and manages data, enabling IT departments, CERTs, cyber security teams, and law enforcement and intelligence agencies to support the three pillars of cyber intelligence: data fusion and analysis; data privacy and security; and data collaboration and sharing. By leveraging the solution’s capabilities in big data analytics, government organizations can dramatically improve their ability to detect and respond to cyber threats.

The Informatica cyber security solution for federal government is based on the Informatica Platform and features the following capabilities:

• Data Fusion and Analysis
  • Enterprise data integration to manage all enterprise data, including unstructured data
  • Data quality to cleanse the data and ensure its trustworthiness
  • Master data management and identity resolution to discover potential relationships among people, organizations, events, and transactions
• Data Privacy and Security
  • Data masking to securely manage complex and sensitive government data for privacy and regulatory compliance
  • Protection of personally identifiable information (PII) and personal health information (PHI)
• Data Collaboration and Sharing
  • B2B data exchange to manage and share data with an external cyber security portal, a government contractor, a state or local government, or another agency in a timely and secure manner
  • Complex event processing to detect events as they occur and enable immediate action