Are you data-prepared?
The Big Problem in Data Preparedness
Many find themselves exposed due to stove-piped, incomplete, and inconsistent data collection, analyses, and products – not ideal for the execution of any mission.
- Complex systems' components are often “stove-piped” with each producing its own data stream, analysis, and products.
- At times, data produced by systems is not captured in a reliable and consistent manner, potentially leaving holes in any analysis.
- Many operations centers or test control rooms do not capture audio or video screens as a matter of course.
- Systems often do not take advantage of the ubiquitous data that can be harnessed, including the human element, fundamentally missing key data sources and rich data such as audio and video.
- System data that is captured is rarely properly time-stamped, synchronized, and stored in an organized manner as it relates to being data-prepared.
- One fundamental requirement in any cyber solution is comprehensive data capture and processing.
Each system’s analysis is very narrow and often misses key elements you might need to reconstruct the system-wide story.
The products being produced are unique, inconsistent, and hard-coded, making it hard to answer the questions you will be asked.
A few of the main costs of this situation include:
- Slow time to information (delay erodes confidence)
- Incomplete and/or misleading information (blind spots)
- Costly redo’s (in the case of test and evaluation)
A Different Outcome and Approach
- This approach prepares you with comprehensive, accurate, consistent, and timely answers to any question that may arise.
- It puts you into an Insight-Ready posture, which is made possible with a Comprehensive System-of-Systems Characterization.
- Think of this system like a fabric you put in place that constantly evolves along with your mission.
- It enables you to focus on your mission and others as they arise, from Training to Forensics to T&E, to Cyber and beyond.
- It takes advantage of the data being produced by your existing systems.
- It is augmented with rich audio, video, and additional data.…all time-stamped, synchronized, organized, recorded, and stored securely.
- This is all brought in via your capture layer, resulting in all data being time-tagged, organized, stored, and immediately available for any level of analysis.
- The analysis layer is used to answer any level of analysis question, from immediate playback to an in-depth investigation or anything in between. An extensive functional decomposition of the system has yielded a comprehensive set of performance measures, which have been configured into a consistent analysis framework.
- The deliver layer allows you to see uniform products.
- This all flows up to give you comprehensive system-of-systems characterization. Now you are getting better data, analysis, and answers from each system as well as among the systems to address all your different analysis needs, from DT, OT, and Follow-on Tests on the Test and Evaluation side to TTP Dev, Training and Forensics on the Operations Support side.
Here are some key benefits you will gain with this system in place.
- Your time to insights and accurate answers will be greatly reduced.
- You won’t be caught flat-footed with glaring blind spots.
- You will be able to reduce the risk of cost and schedule overruns by avoiding gaps and do-overs.
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