SMART DATA SAFE & SECURE PLANET

INNOVATIVE COLLABORATION
In this 21st century, we face unprecedented and complex challenges to ensure the sustainability of our civilisation. We face rapidly emerging risks from so many areas of our lives, from global warming to the collapse of banking, from the abuse of human rights to nation state sponsored cyber warfare. These risks impact people, cities, organisations and nations. Many risks are interdependent and cant be addressed in a silo. We must collaborate innovatively across the boundaries of our organisations and nation states. We must better understand, model, monitor and analyse risks, to enable the development of more effective policies and strategies to create greater resilience.

LOOK AT THE WORLD THROUGH THE LENS OF HUMANITY

WE NEED NEW TOOLS

Existing infrastructure and methods of managing risks to create a safe and secure planet are inadequate for the challenges ahead. But now Big Data, Cloud Computing, mobile and the Internet of Things are leading the way to open our minds to the possibility of better exploiting technology to address these challenges. We have progressed from managing information in relational databases and spreadsheets to new tools that allow us to create rich virtual representations of the world around us. These tools gather data from sensors in our environment, process real-time predictive analytics and securely share information. These new information tools inform policy makers and strategists to drive better outcomes.

LIES, DAMN LIES

LETS RING SOME WARNING BELLS. OUR EMERGING SCIENCE IS IMMATURE AND THERE ARE RISKS INHERENT IN ITS GROWTH. WE MUST BE CAUTIOUS ABOUT THE CONCLUSIONS WE DRAW AND CAREFUL ABOUT WHO HAS ACCESS TO WHAT INFORMATION.
We need to ensure that data analysts dont misuse or manipulate data to validate their own agendas. If were not careful, we could be facing a new era of lies, damn lies and Big Data. We need to be careful we dont violate or lose our privacy rights. Once lost, enterprises and governments could resist returning them. We need to be careful when collaborating that we dont lose valuable IP, or worse, see the failure of our intellectual property regime.

VIRTUAL WORLDS NEED TRUSTED FOUNDATIONS

The new virtual worlds of data we create must be built on a trusted foundation. They need to be highly secure. The provenance of data and derived analytics has to be easily established. It is essential that data privacy is respected. Rules and policies within and across organisational boundaries must be enforced. Underlying technologies and data structures need to be open and interoperable to avoid overly powerful monopolies. And of course, these new worlds must be very fast, highly reliable and always available.

BIG IS JUST THE START

NOW ITS TIME TO GET SMART

Data, created by people and systems, is owing through our organisations at an exponentially increasing rate. But the use of this Big Data to extract real value, competitive advantage AND sustainable ethical prots requires something new. Its time to get Smart.

A NEW INFORMATION SUBSTRATE

Our new virtual worlds must be sustainable themselves and thus need to be constructed with great rigour, exibility and extensibility. One way to do this is by using a new information substrate known as Smart Data. Smart Data borrows extensible conguration characteristics from the world of online gaming and their underlying engines and tools. Smart Data extends these capabilities by addressing critical issues head on, such as: trusted collaboration, entitlement and policy management, authentication, auditability, analytics, data provenance, data security, and real time data exchange with the physical world of things.

SMART DATA

DATA WITH A BRAIN

DATA THAT REPRESENTS AN ENTITY DATA THAT CONNECTS THE ENTITY DATA THAT KNOWS THE ENTITY DATA WITH A PURPOSE DATA THAT CAN MAKE A DECISION DATA THAT CAN TAKE ACTION

SMART DATA

EXPERIMENT IN NEW DIMENSIONS

In virtual worlds, time and space can be captured and processed. We can travel the galaxy of possibilities at warp speed. We can simulate the future and work out how to achieve good outcomes and prevent bad ones. By learning to navigate and interact with these new worlds, we can experiment with scenarios to induce policies and strategies to create a safe & secure planet.

MONITOR CONTINUOUSLY
Our national infrastructure comprises the facilities, systems, sites and networks necessary for the country to deliver the essential services on which our daily life depends. It is categorised into nine sectors: communications; emergency services; energy; nancial services; food; government; health; transport and water. A safe & secure planet requires this infrastructure to have high resilience and effective controls to mitigate critical threats. We must progress from manual and infrequent audit processes to a world where we automatically and continuously monitor all our critical assets.

PREVENTION BEATS DETECTION

IN COMPLEX ORGANISATIONS, ITS NOT GOOD ENOUGH SIMPLY TO REPORT ON PROBLEMS OR TO MEND AND REPAIR THE DAMAGE LATER. WE NEED MECHANISMS THAT PREVENT PROBLEMS BEFORE THEY STRIKE: WE NEED REAL-TIME SOLUTIONS.

TAKE CONTROL
SMART DATA CAN LEAD US TOWARDS A SAFE & SECURE PLANET BY ALLOWING LEADERS OF ORGANISATIONS TO TAKE AND KEEP MORE CONTROL OF THEIR OPERATIONS; AND BY INFORMING AND ENABLING THE DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF BETTER POLICIES, STRATEGIES AND CONTROL MECHANISMS. THE COMPLIANCE OF KEY ASSETS CAN BE AUTOMATICALLY MONITORED AND ENFORCED TO CREATE GREATER RESILIENCE.

THINK AGENCY NOT PRIVACY

INDIVIDUAL

AGENCY

THE GROWTH OF THE INTERNET, THE EMERGING INTERNET OF THINGS, AND THE DEVELOPING PERSONAL DATA STORES, WILL SHIFT POWER TOWARDS THE INDIVIDUAL.
Rather than focussing on our natural desire to be in control of the outcomes of our internet interactions, legislators have focussed on privacy. By avoiding the negative impacts of privacy to the exclusion of the positive benets of cyber agency, we may lose the economic benets of cyber space, and paradoxically put ourselves more at risk from terrorists and criminals. In the next era of the internet, Governments and Enterprises will be more trusted by considering the cyber rights of the individual in the design of their policies and processes that ensures right minded people maintain agency - the control over their data and things.

GOVERNMENT

CORPORATION

ME MY RULES MY DATA MY RULES MY DEVICES MY RULES MY EXPERIENCE MY RULES

CONNECT TO EVERYTHING
By 2020, its estimated that 50 billion things will be internet-connected leading to a profound change in the way people, business and society interact. Analysts agree that the Internet of Things will dwarf any other market, with huge economic implications and $ trillions up for grabs. If we build the right infrastructure and data frameworks, these connected things can become a rock-solid foundation for making a safe & secure planet.

HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

Deeply entrenched authoritarian regimes are facing popular dissent and losing ground to new forces. The proliferation of mobile and social media technology is empowering any individuals with a smartphone to be an international broadcaster. However many of the worlds most vulnerable populations remain voiceless. Governments demonstrate an increasing willingness to blackout communications in times of crisis. Citizen journalism is hampered by authentication difculties and ineffective distribution. Dwindling resources limit the effectiveness of traditional media to expose crises in hard to reach places. These forces combine to exacerbate dire human rights situations and hide them from the world.

USE SMART DATA TO: Model regimes. Model substantive rights. Monitor and record incidents of abuse. Securely broadcast edited content to apply pressure on regimes.

ECONOMIC FRAGILITY
The global economic situation remains fragile. The persistent global economic fragility continues to divert our attention from long term solutions by limiting the availability of public resources and generating greater caution in use of scarce funds for strategic investment projects. Financial shocks to both customers and the banks ripple across our society, disrupting citizens and companies, creating pain and anguish. A stable nancial system is essential to the development of our advanced civilisation to underpin collaboration and fund projects to address critical risks. USE SMART DATA TO: Model nancial products (eg mortgages and loans) design, execution, environment, organisation. Continuously monitor and audit controls. Deliver real-time analytics across the organisation.

CYBER CRIME

Cyber security is now considered one of the top threats to the UKs competitiveness. The Cabinet Ofce estimates that e-crime is costing the UK 27bn a year. A recent FT ICSA Bellwether Report found that only 21% of FTSE 350 companies had identied their key information assets and signicantly mitigated the risk of cybercrime. Beyond direct competitiveness, state sponsored, state afliated, criminal or terrorist attacks could be enormously disruptive to our civilisation. Cybercrime is directly connected to many other risks including terrorism; critical systems and infrastructure failure; a massive incident of data fraud; cyber bullying; failure of intellectual property regime; entrenched organised crime and massive digital misinformation.

USE SMART DATA TO: Model information assets (eg IP and IT systems), threats, security policies, people, organisation. Continuously monitor and audit controls and incidents by assets. Enforce policies. Deliver real-time analytics across organisation.

FACE UP TO IT

Humanity will still be attempting to make our planet safe & secure long after our generation has left the planet. And of course new generations will face new challenges. But our generation needs to face up to the critical problems we face now in the 21st century. We cant wait, we cant pass the buck to our children. It will be too late for our civilisation, and even perhaps our species. It is our responsibility. We have to face up to it. We have to nd ways of making our planet more sustainable, our people, cities, organisations and nations safe & secure. We each have a responsibility.

JOIN US
in a quiet revolution to make our people, organisations, cities and nations safe & secure, through the sensible application of Smart Data. I am hosting a series of lunches and dinners in and around parliament to bring together thought leaders to discuss a number of critical topics under the theme safe & secure planet. We will explore the balance between progress and pitfall, examining concepts that encourage competition whilst helping humanity. Please drop me an email at: lord.erroll@exeye.com if you would like to join us.

Merlin Erroll Lord Erroll, Chairman of the Flexeye Advisory Board

PS. To explore how Smart Data could help your organisation become more safe & secure, please call Flexeye on +44(0)1483 306060 and ask to speak to a Smart Data Analyst.