When the average person is queried about homeland security, he or she generally thinks of fences, borders, coast guard forces, airplanes, satellites, and a host of other tangible defenses. Yet in this day and age, the bulk of the “heavy lifting” is on the technological side of the equation. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the field of data retention.
When the average person is asked about data retention, he will often consider it to be the storage of business transactions. Sales data, customer lists, credit card numbers, addresses and the like come to mind. But for the law enforcement professional, and the homeland security agent, data retention is a completely different animal. After the European Union took the lead in demanding that Telecom, and ISP data information companies store their records under the “2006 Data Retention Initiative”, it became clear that a viable solution to storing all that data needed to come to the forefront.
Although it was simple to see the logic in having all that data so that law enforcement could use it to track down terrorists, child pornographers and the like, there was no simple solution available to efficiently complete the task. Service providers were grumbling aloud at the expenses involved in storing all those terabytes of information, and struggling over how to categorize it and label it effectively. It was one expense to store it all, and yet another to try and find what one was looking for.
When looking into the possibility of terrorist activity, phone records, conversations, web sites visited and a host of other “tracks” need investigation. So, where can they find these electronic tracks? Intelligentias, Inc. (trading under the symbol ITLI.OB) is a global data intelligence company. With a worldwide network of technology and resale partners, Intelligentias provides homeland security products to law enforcement agencies, government agencies, telecommunications companies and ISPs in order to prevent terrorism, cyber-crime and child exploitation. Their portfolio company, Retentia, Inc., provides data retention, tracking and forensics software to some of the largest organizations in the world.
So what type of data retention can one expect Retentia’s solutions to provide? They can provide the proper authorities with such useful information as who you talk on the phone, where you are when you place a call, and what websites you visit. Their software has the ability to capture and store billions of telephone and web surfing records every day, allowing authorities find a single record among trillions of phone and web surfing records in a matter of minutes.
For an Internet Service Provider, for instance, Intelligentias software will store and categorize: e-mails sent and received, Instant Messages sent and received, websites visited, The date, time and duration of messaging, messaging types, device identity, location of mobile equipment, traffic analysis, IP address assigned, logon/logoff time and date, from, to, CC e-mail addresses, authentication user name, dial-up, CLI number assigned, ADSL endpoint, Mac address (if available) proxy server logs, and social connectedness (who’s messaging whom).
Not only will Retentia do all this, it will do it with an architecture and file system that allows for a 50-percent savings over traditional data storage. Law enforcement agencies and officials appreciate the usefulness, while ISP’s and telecoms appreciate the cost value. As global terrorism and threats from criminal activity increase, demand for ITLI’s products and services can virtually do nothing but increase, and that is what intelligent investors want to see; strong demand for a great product that could ultimately save lives. It doesn’t get much better than that.
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