Monthly Archive for February, 2011

i2 and PPM 2000 Demonstrate the Combined Capabilities of Partnership

On the heels of this week’s announcement that i2 and PPM 2000 have entered into a strategic channel partnership agreement, the two companies co-hosted a webinar showcasing the advanced capabilities of their combined offerings: PPM’s enterprise level investigation management solution Perspective and the suite of analysis products from i2, including Analyst’s Notebook and iBridge

Led by Brian McIlravey, co-CEO of PPM 2000, and i2’s Mark Massop, Director and Solutions Specialist, the webinar demonstrated how the products significantly reduce the time and effort required of analysts to turn routine data into actionable intelligence – the key to any successful investigation.

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Securing the Super Bowl: the Unheralded Role of Analysts in Protecting the Big Game

Far removed from the glamour and adrenaline of the game-day atmosphere that will descend upon Cowboys Stadium for Super Bowl XLV this Sunday, a just as intense but completely surreptitious battle is being waged, not on the gridiron, but among the analysts at the North Central Texas and Dallas Fusion Centers. These analysts are charged with helping support the security infrastructure around the biggest spectacle in American sports. Victory for them is to go unnoticed. Their foe, however, comes not in the form of a potent pass rush or disguised defensive scheme, but is itself invisible – a potential threat lurking amid the more than 150,000 people that have started to migrate to North Texas for the big game.

As the former CIO of the Los Angeles Police Department, I’ve had the privilege of being part of the security infrastructure for many large gatherings – the Academy Awards and the NBA Finals at Staples Center to name a few. The planning and coordination among many law enforcement agencies is critical to the success of securing any event of this scope. READ MORE