Because Acts of Terrorism have stretched law enforcement and intelligence communities world-wide to exhaustive limits, JBISoft, Inc. developed Collaborative Intelligent Response Facilitator (CIRF), designed to go beyond current technical boundaries to infiltrate, monitor, collect, report, and alert critical events to the decision makers.
CIRF is an extremely flexible software application designed for Information Gathering, Knowledge Creation, and User Collaboration. The CIRF mission is to strengthen Homeland Security through development and deployment of effective intelligent software applications against terrorism.
CIRF is a collection of a number of data gathering, data analysis, and visualization tools, that when combined, create a unified view of possible terrorist activities on which Special Agents can act. The features include:
The Special Agent is able to create a query based information space upon which a JBISoft proprietary Clustering Algorithm creates knowledge and weighted associations. The information space is composed of both knowledge way point agents (KWA) which reside at the structured and unstructured data stores within DHS, other Federal, State, and Local government, and the internet, and knowledge service points (KSP) which act as analytical data repositories.
The KSP manage KWA that are contextual neighbors in the information space and returns the derived knowledge to the iAgent tool. The iAgent visualization component of CIRF presents the results to the analyst in a taxonomy based display.
"The core architecture of CIRF is based on our CyberWarfare, Intelligence & Knowledgebase Architecture surrounding the primary mission of the Department of Homeland Security."
CIRF provides one-stop access to review open and closed incidents and act upon incidents via an intuitive user interface. The end result is faster incident resolution for more reliable information assurance.
Features include the ability to sort incidents by severity level and time, view incident details, view individual events that comprise an incident, create and manage virtual teams to assist in incident resolution, and launch the iAgent GUI, Information Gathering, and taxonomy visualization tools.
The Team Building feature of CIRF is a database of registered users and Special Agents. In addition, CIRF can search user properties as defined in HR Management Systems. The database contains user properties such as name, contact information, user skills and proficiency ratings. Users easily update their profile information via CIRF.
The Expert Locator tools provide analyst team member recommendations based on the incident type and the expert skills and proficiency required to solve the situation. The Special Agent can also search the expert database to invite experts to a team on an as-needed basis. Experts invited to a team are notified via email and an alert message if an active CIRF user.