The government places great emphasis on issues of national security. Infoglide Identity Focused Solutions enable government agencies to assess security risks in real-time.

One challenge the government faces is accessing data from multiple agencies to form a complete risk assessment. Through secure, remote access to multiple, disparate databases, organizations can leverage other organizations’ data while the data owner maintains complete control over what is shared and in what form (e.g., encrypted). Identity Focused Government solutions facilitate access to public and permission data sources and allow for custom access to those data sources. Because scores rather than actual data are returned, data privacy is guaranteed.

Our technology was chosen from hundreds of applicants by the US Department of Homeland Security as the framework for the next generation airline passenger screening solution. Derived from this same technology, our Identity Resolution Engine (IRE) enables better decision making about the people with whom agencies interact and the schemes in which they operate. Unlike most business intelligence solutions, the IRE performs “identity focused” analysis to:

• Identify hidden relationships between identities such as customers, service providers, locations, vehicles, and property;
• Highlight multiple occurrences of the same identity without modifying or standardizing the data; and
• Reduce false positives or “noise” from search results to focus human analysis where it is best utilized.

Fusion Centers Focus on Identity Resolution

Identity Resolution is a vital technology for law enforcement fusion centers. When overlapping and adjacent jurisdictions share data with each other, uncovering hidden identities and linkages greatly accelerates the detection of criminal activity.

Seventy-two fusion centers have been put in place in the U.S. and are operationally stable across the country. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in conjunction with the Justice Department, has addressed the need for consistent operating principles. Starting in 2005, they published and continue to maintain a set of guidelines suggesting how to establish collaboration and data sharing between agencies while protecting the privacy and civil liberties of citizens.

Identity Resolution technology addresses many concerns of privacy advocates. By keeping details about individuals private while enabling similarity searching and hidden relationship detection, law enforcement does its job effectively while protecting the confidentiality of each individual’s private data.

Jack Thomas Tomarchio, former deputy undersecretary for intelligence and analysis operations at DHS, said, “These things are brand new. They haven’t been around 20 years, and even the ones that have been around three or four years are still in their formative years. In many cases, they don’t have a track record.”

Identity Resolution software addresses both privacy and security issues. While the ultimate decision to use it wisely falls to the people who run the fusion centers, Identity Resolution gives them the weapon they need to get the job done while protecting privacy.