Atos: Scenarios for the Future of Defence and Security

Knowledge centricity – creating strategic advantage through predictive analytics

There is a growing demand for specific filtering of information and its transformation into knowledge. This requires a smart data fusion from all kinds of sources; and data, covering financial transactions, forensic information and many other kinds of content. 

Atos is one of the main players that aim to reduce complexity and support decision making, and makes effective use of semantic web technology for this purpose. Semantic web characteristics include intelligent services and networks and self-healing systems, as both people and non-sentient objects reason and communicate together through connected intelligences, an omnipresent web (Web 4.0).

Atos helps its Defence and security clients move towards these Network Enabled Capabilities, by taking complex and divergent data streams and using them to create actionable intelligence. These capabilities contribute directly to more effective command and management structures in Defence and security organisations. Atos’ secure intelligence collection and assessment system supports the entire workflow of an intelligence service, from the collection of the information, through processing and analysis to distribution. 

Cyber security – securing cyberspace as an integrated part of life

Cyber space technologies and applications are an integral part of many technologies, products, solutions and services. Cyber criminality is rapidly increasing, and in Defence and security we need to take cyber warfare and cyber terrorism fully into account. There are many different systems, all communicating with each other and as additional players join the ecosystem, complexity increases and so does the possibility of a security problem in one place that could end up infecting all the others. 

Cyber Risk & Business Impact Assessments focus on identifying crucial business processes, the crucial information in those processes and the required technology necessary for a minimum baseline in cyber security. Atos ScoutForce is a unique Cyber Threat Assessment solution using best of breed technology, combined with our proven analysis and testing techniques. This allows to rediscover the IT systems and to know the weaknesses and risks. That leverages the data generated from multiple sources to answer three key questions (3Ws) and to provide a snapshot of what it really happening inside the organization. The result is the information needed to reduce the overall risk and to avoid the cost of potential security breaches.

Next-generation crime control

Today there is a cyber world that exists in parallel to and integrated with the real world. This needs to be effectively policed, and that demands efficient management and intervention by trained executive forces equipped with  technology. Next-generation crime control requires specific solutions for real-time knowledge exchange as well as biometric and forensic analyses monitored by specialist cyber police or cyber Defence forces.

The main features of next-generation crime control technologies that Atos focuses on are:

Smart combination of future technologies like automated reasoning or semantic storage;

Highly efficient collaboration between applications;

Permanently available, real-time and intelligent detection of criminals by next generation identity management;

Advanced expert systems with artificial intelligence in efficient cooperation with conventional security forces;

Creation of security experience able to anticipate crime situations.

People mobility and network security

The continued, apparently unstoppable increase in mobility has a strong influence on the IT and communication security of organisations. We now need the most effective solutions for protection against unauthorised access to computers and networks, which will be based on advanced technologies for access management, authenticity, encryption, mobile devices, and other technology assets. 

Using Atos deployable IT and communications solutions, it is possible to be up and running at high speed and secure in any part of the world, and to keep working normally, no matter what the conditions may be. 

Joining it all together 

Defence and security organisations do not operate on their own but as components within a large ecosystem. Atos has worked closely with the Defence and security community for decades, and has deep and detailed knowledge and understanding of Defence equipment and support requirements.

At Atos, there exist the depth, reach and stretch to cover the complete ecosystem demands. Atos’ extensive track record covers work for Ministries of Defence from the US, UK, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Australia, international organisations such as NATO and Armed Forces from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe to Latin America and Asia. 

Developing a MoD-wide IT strategy defines the corporate security policy and establishes the main directions and trends in terms of information systems, technical architecture, IT processes and organisation and communications networks belongs also to our field of play. Communication equipment, identity management infrastructure, BPO, ERP, Web-Based Training, Joint Command and Control Information Systems are also all fields of work that Atos has developed a broad experience in with respective MoD’s and NATO. AirC2IS from Atos Turkey will be NATO’s first network-enabled capability by design. It will be a system that is forward-looking and will equip the operational users to face the changing NATO environment and security challenges. Atos also supports the NATO automated personnel management based on widely used technologies.

Atos has also enabled and ensured automated data exchange between C2 systems of several NATO and non-NATO nations, which have heterogeneous data structures and technologies, delivering on predefined information exchange requirements. 

In many different countries, including Turkey, Spain, Germany, The Netherlands and Arab Emirates, Atos provides a great variety of Command & Control Centers to police forces. These range from single site to country-wide; from purely police to integration with fire brigades and emergency and rescue services. Atos is not only able to ensure integration into the command and control centre, but also sets-up entire PMR networks, from small event-related networks to permanent, country-wide solutions, such as the Polycom network in Switzerland.

For national police forces, border guards and other security services managed by interior ministries, Atos delivers electronic identification solutions. These range from ePassport to fixed and mobile border checkpoint, as well as surveillance of non-regulated borders. We now have many references for solutions of this kind, originating in Spain, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Croatia and Italy. For the Australian federal police Atos developed the General Evidence Management System (GEMS) to support any type of investigation, improving the efficiency of any investigation team.

Born out of the union of Atos Origin and Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Atos is an international information technology services company with annual revenues of EUR 8.8 billion and 76.400 employees in 47 countries. Serving a global client base, it delivers hi-tech transactional services, consulting and technology services, systems integration and managed services. Atos is focused on business technology that powers progress and helps organizations to create their firm of the future.