Today, i2 announced at the UASI Conference in New Orleans a new partnership with Digital Sandbox that promises a compelling and unique value proposition for organizations tasked with protecting critical infrastructure. The partnership is linked with the launch of Digital Sandbox’s new version of its Risk Analysis Center (RAC). Together, the solution empowers analysts with the tools to assess, manage, monitor and analyze threats to critical infrastructure.

By combining key pieces of the i2 Intelligence-Led Operations Platform with components of the Digital Sandbox platform, fusion centers, police departments and federal agencies will be able to:

• Better identify and asses critical infrastructure for risks.
• Leverage the combination of “human sensor” data from law enforcement data collection with automated open source monitoring and prioritization to identify risks.
• Conduct all-source analysis to mitigate threats.

Information Flow Between the Components

This diagram illustrates the information flow between the components and how each system leverages the information power of the other components. The data stored in a COPLINK node provides valuable information for use in the assessment of risk to critical infrastructure components. Within Digital Sandbox Risk Analysis Center, this information is combined with open source and proprietary information in order to assess critical infrastructure risks. The identified critical infrastructure is then pushed back to the COPLINK Activity Correlation Technology (ACT) module for automating suspicious activity alerting and reporting.

Once critical infrastructure is identified in ACT and monitoring begins, all law enforcement information geolocated to buffer zones around the critical infrastructure is evaluated and can be automatically pushed to the RAC where it is combined with open source monitoring to identify potential threats.

As potential threats are identified, the law enforcement data and open source data are available to analysts using Analyst’s Notebook to analyze the information for further action.

I’m personally very excited about this partnership and look forward to further endeavors with Digital Sandbox.  Check out Digital Sandbox’s blog entry on the combined solution as well.