Serious Organised Crime - Features

The SiD offering from Superstructure has five distinct features that set it aside from the rest of the market:

Intelligence led investigation
Sophisticated criminal activity can be matched only by understanding the full model of an organised criminal process. Although that understanding takes a lot of hard grind investigative effort, the end result allows an attack on the pivotal points of the process. The result is a prosecution that maximizes the value for the investigation investment.

SiD provides full investigation support and the capture of related intelligence to focus investigative effort on the most cost-effective targets in terms of enforcement resource. SiD provides the information to take action and significantly reduces the prosecution delivery phase. (Prosecution Officers have quoted a 200% reduction in the prosecution delivery phase of an investigation.)

Security
SiD is certified to Security Level "In Confidence" (Security Level 5) and has been used in Top Secret operations by Police and Military.

SiD's n-tier web architecture allows the system to securely send and receive information over the web. Part of this capability is the SiD Smart Forms, which can be remotely deployed to allow other agencies to submit information in a fully secure manner.

	IP address filtering at the firewall to ensure traffic is only received from the authorised agencies (internally implemented within the organisation's network infrastructure)
	A windows authentication mechanism (such as RSA SecuID) to ensure that authentication is strengthened from pure password protection

SiD also provides a full audit trail of action taken on any information within the system.

Collaboration
A key intelligence collection capability is to inwardly and outwardly share intelligence with other agencies underpinned by appropriate inter-agency Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU). At the operational level these need to be protected with a security framework which maintains the integrity of the MOU and ensures other generic considerations (such as privacy legislation) are protected.

Such exchange must be selectively manageable in terms of content. The transfer of information must be totally flexible, mapping to the intelligence model at either end of the transfer - both in terms of detailed profiles and associations. Such intelligence sharing should be available at all levels of the intelligence collection model.

SiD provides a secure XML standard data sharing mechanism that will allow mapping of any data structure for inward and outward data exchange. The mechanism for inter-agency intelligence sharing is based on XML intelligence exchange which is compatible with the US Attorney General's Regional Information Sharing System (RISS - Matrix project). This protocol provides the core structure for a more open ended and extensible information exchange internally and externally with a SiD database.

Flexibility
The key to SiD is the flexibility to handle intelligence from such diverse fields as taxation fraud, money laundering, military intelligence, illegal drug supply, wildlife poaching, anti-terrorist intelligence, homicide or fisheries fraud.

SiD provides a highly flexible framework of information content and inter-operability. Dynamic meta-data structures allow definition of diverse and locally specific structures that can be matched perfectly to the domain The benefit of this structure is the adaptability to changing market requirements without a change to the core product, and with low cost of deployment on an operation by operation basis.

In terms of the specific information to be captured, the SiD Smart Forms capability provides open-ended data extension via the meta-data administration capability. This allows any information content to be recorded (or extended) at any time. To the user the forms look as though they are targeted to their domain.

SiD provides seamless integration with key support tools including the i2 Analyst Notebook visual analysis tool.

Scalability
Under a n-tier architecture with scalable application servers SiD is able to provide as much bandwidth as needed. Application Servers operate independently so you can duplicate as many times as is necessary to scale to meet the requirements. For example in an emergency situation where high volumes of information need to be input into the system to provide an up to date picture as quickly as possible. Part of this capability is the SiD Smart Forms, which can be remotely deployed to allow other agencies to submit information in a fully secure manner.