End-To-End Cyber Resilience with SAP Solutions
Cyberculture is growing faster than cybersecurity, and this is placing everything that depends on cyberspace at risk. Private data, intellectual property, IT infrastructure, and even military and national security – it can all be compromised by deliberate attacks, inadvertent security lapses, and the inherent vulnerability of the Internet.
The fact is, cyberculture is growing rapidly, and it has taken on a life of its own that won’t stop. The Internet has made access to information ubiquitous. Almost all business and government activities now rely on digital connectivity. And even traditional aspects of everyday life – such as appliances and cars – may soon come with their own IP addresses.
As these examples illustrate, dependence on the cyber domain is no longer limited to advanced technologies, and participation in it is no longer a choice. The economic, governmental, and social advantages that a digital world can enable are difficult to even quantify – and there’s no going back.
For these reasons, governments and their citizens must tackle cybersecurity issues head on – and make necessary changes in habits and lifestyle to protect their processes and assets. Lack of effective cybersecurity threatens not only the gains made possible by information technology, but also other elements of daily life that are now dependent on the Internet. It’s time to refine the focus on what a secure digital world can enable, because an unsecured Internet is worse than none at all.
Real-Time Protection: Protecting Economies, Governments, and Citizens
In today’s volatile sociopolitical environment, governments have to carefully protect the information that they collect and process. To achieve this, they need a thorough information management policy combined with real-time cyber-reporting and analytical tools. The technologies they deploy to improve cybersecurity should also boost cost-containment efforts and empower leaders to make effective decisions.
To help governments realize these goals, SAP offers cyber-intelligence software that supports quick analysis of complex intelligence relation-ships and networks of IP-related information. Intelligence agencies can use it to share information securely across teams, agencies, and borders, as well as perform integrated intelligence analysis of structured and unstructured data. By integrating and simplifying previously complex, disconnected information sources, agencies can have a clear, shared intelligence picture that helps them uncover and address cyberattacks quickly and efficiently.
SAP software also supports cyberspace-related investigative processes from case initiation to close. Agencies can use it to gather intelligence, organize investigative data, and centrally manage all intelligence-led policing processes. In addition, investigators can classify incidents, assign leads, and decide on follow-up activities, increasing agency efficiency and effectiveness.
Managing the Cyber Resilience Lifecycle
With SAP software, governments gain a more complete view of intelligence data and can enable investigative best practices and evidence-based decision making. Agents can process investigative cases from initiation to close and get insights to anticipate, solve, and reduce incidents. They can also analyze complex intelligence relationships and networks of seemingly disconnected people, objects, locations, and events for a clear, common intelligence picture.
Identify and catalog critical infrastructures that are vulnerable to cyber compromises
Approach cybersecurity as the ongoing management of continuous risk, not as a safeguard against specific future attacks
Foster the view that cybersecurity is ultimately about protecting everything of value – not just digital assets
Plan for resiliency so the government can react swiftly when cybersecurity is compromised despite protective efforts
View bringing digital data into a government’s virtual space as a risk that must be managed similarly to food imports, immigration, and other customs
SAP Innovations for Cyber Risk Management
Breakthrough technologies from SAP can help governments of all sizes drive change and create best-run agencies that can cultivate true, effective cyber resilience. SAP solutions enable cyber risk management in real time to assure the security of government identities. They’re also designed to help agencies process Big Data in near real time, drive new online services, and “unwire” citizens and employees by providing mobile access to processes and data.
For example, in-memory databases, such as the SAP HANA platform, enable governments to get more from their data faster. Data is essential to making decisions, improving operational efficiencies, and providing government-to-government (G2G), government-to-citizen (G2C), and government-to-business (G2B) services.
SAP software powered by SAP HANA can also help agencies transform operations by stream-lining processes and integrating massive amounts of data on a single platform. They
can manage, access, and use large volumes of data in real time while enjoying fast, predictable application performance.
Best-run government organizations also need business intelligence (BI) solutions to extract and transform data into actionable insight for fast, informed decision making. Using BI solutions from SAP, they can deliver the right reports to the right people at the right time and even generate complex, ad hoc reports and queries. SAP solutions are designed to deliver superior performance for critical intelligence, analytics, and data warehousing activities on any standard hardware and operating system.
Identity Detection and Resolution
Identify and register IP-related information or unknown persons and organizations. Validate and classify known persons and organizations.
Investigation Processing
Process investigative cases from beginning to end; track relevant information, involved people, objects, locations, and events; and manage relevant data and documents.
Intelligence Analysis and Reporting
Analyze massive amounts of data with intuitive graphical tools, find hidden connections and patterns, draw conclusions, and share results. Run management as well as operational reports.
Identity Detection and Resolution
Government agencies can use SAP software to efficiently identify and register IP-related information or unknown persons and organizations. They can also quickly validate and classify known persons and organizations as part of an efficient identify detection process.
With governmental cyber resilience intelligence solutions from SAP, intelligence professionals have the tools to track accurate intelligence data related to IP-related information, persons, objects, entities, locations, and events, as well as understand their interrelationships. Key functions help people identify and categorize relevant details and their relationships to cases, leads, incidents, and activities, as well as store, upload, and classify outcomes.
By discovering, relating, validating, and evaluating identities, analysts and investigators can discover unknown persons and organizations of interest. At the same time, analysts and investigators gain a fuller view of intelligence data, enabling consistent investigative best practices and evidence-based decision making.
Capabilities: Use Intelligence More Effectively
Governmental cyber resilience solutions from SAP support investigation processing so agencies can efficiently manage the investigative work process.
For example, in the event of a serious cyber-attack against a federal government office, investigators can use a structured process based on best practices to track incidents and manage the investigation process. They can plan and execute activities in a coordinated manner; collect comprehensive structured information; and display, evaluate, and share this information in a transparent manner.
In addition, SAP software helps agencies organize the data and support the processes that are typically used in intelligence and policing, especially those processes used to investigate cybercrimes. This leads to faster decision making during the investigation process, a higher percentage of solved incidents, and reduced cybercrime rates.
Reporting and statistical analyses happen automatically, rather than manually. Predefined operational key performance indicators help management teams track effectiveness and view trends, as well as see “hot spots” and identify the likely source of them. Executives can then make better resource allocations based on this data.
Benefits: Get the Full Picture to Reach the Right Conclusions
With SAP software, government agencies can efficiently process investigative cases from initiation to close. At every step, analysts and investigators have the insights they need to anticipate, solve, and reduce criminal and terrorist incidents in cyberspace.
Intelligence Analysis and Reporting
Using SAP software, agencies can analyze massive amounts of data using intuitive, graphical tools. These tools reveal meaningful connections and patterns that aren’t obvious otherwise. Agents can draw conclusions and share insights with stakeholders. And at any time, they can run management and operational reporting.
SAP software supports quick analysis of complex intelligence relationships and networks of IP-related information, people, objects, locations, and events. Intelligence agencies can share information securely across teams, agencies, and borders. The software also provides integrated intelligence analysis of structured and unstructured data with source tracking, access control, visual analysis, and flexible modeling of complex data sets.
The result? Agencies can integrate and simplify previously complex, disconnected information sources to get a clear, common intelligence picture. This consolidated data can be analyzed using visual, interactive tools that even support fast, ad hoc analysis on raw data; no data modeling is needed. As a result, investigators can work freestyle without dependence on IT and spend their time on true analysis rather than technical issues.
Find the Hidden Knowledge in Data
Developing a detailed intelligence picture is vital to the success of any cyber resilience operation. But to target serious and organized cybercrime, analysts and investigators need to focus on hidden associations and connections between disparate, disorganized data sets. This requires having the right analytical and reporting tools.
Governmental cyber resilience solutions from SAP provide a robust, intuitive tool set that helps analysts and investigators conduct full investigations that can lead to intelligence breakthroughs and more informed decisions. For example, the SAP Intelligence Analysis for Public Sector application by Palantir is a complete software solution for intelligence analysts and investigators. It integrates structured and unstructured data across classification and security levels. At the same time, it helps analysts perform advanced searches efficiently, leverage enterprise-wide knowledge management, and collaborate within and across agencies.
In addition, SAP software supports data cleansing and consolidation on even the largest data stores, improving data quality. This helps ensure more accurate analyses.
More Pictures, Less Words Make Insights Easy
SAP software provides graphical interfaces with intuitive, built-in user guidance that facilitates efficient handling of large masses of structured and unstructured data. These features help investigators quickly find the needle in the haystack – and bring perpetrators of cybercrimes to justice.
SAP software empowers decision makers at every level by providing robust analytics that help them combine fragments of data from multiple sources and gain a unified view of crimes and threats. It also offers powerful tools for information management – complete with full-source tracking, fine-grained access control, flexible data modeling, and data integration. All of this functionality is available through a powerful, intuitive interface.
For example, with the SAP Intelligence Analysis for Public Sector application,
an analyst or investigator can begin an investigation and achieve results within hours or days rather than weeks. The software efficiently automates hundreds of tasks that are currently performed manually within most agencies. By putting advanced features at the fingertips of information analysts, the solution breaks down barriers to expedite intelligence analysis, discovery, and sharing.
Public Security Value Map with End-to-End SAP Solutions
Cyber Resilience is an integral part of SAP solutions that aim to provide value to organizations in the field of security. Please check SAP web site and SAP Solution Explorer.
