Palantir Technologies

OSINT Analysis of Sudan and South Sudan

Jason — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:59:35 +0000

Less than four months ago, the Southern portion of Sudan seceded and formed South Sudan, only the 5th country to be created this century. In this session, we will demonstrate how Palantir can draw from a plethora of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) data sources (including academic research, blogs, news media, NGO reports and United Nations studies) to rapidly construct an understanding of the conflict underlying this somewhat anomalous 21st Century event. Using a suite of Palantir Helpers developed for OSINT analysis, the video performs relational, temporal, statistical, geospatial, and social network analysis of over a dozen open sources of data.

Note: The key analysis portion of the video begins at about 2:10.

Using Palantir to Address Information Security and Insider Threat in the Enterprise

Brandon — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:08:52 +0000

In this demonstration, we will show how an analyst can use Palantir to uncover insider threat. Using the integrated data and a combination of analysis tools available on the platform, the investigator can seamlessly cross data sets, examine activity, and rapidly reveal suspicious employee behavior in an information security fraud case.

Note: Data used in this video is simulated; any connection to actual individuals is purely coincidental.

Uncovering Cyberfraud at a Large Financial Institution

Brandon — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:25:28 +0000

This cyberfraud workflow is based on an actual case discovered at one of Palantir’s largest and most successful commercial deployments. In this demonstration, we will show how an investigator uses Palantir to rapidly surf across data from multiple lines of business generated through customer interactions via multiple channels. The investigator is able to use a combination of analysis tools available on the platform to quickly trace the origin of a reported threat and protect the bank’s assets from further exfiltration.

Biometric Analysis in Palantir

Jesse — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:00:23 +0000

Discover how analysts supporting the II Marine Expeditionary Force in Afghanistan’s Regional Command-Southwest are utilizing Palantir to analyze massive amounts of forensic and biometric data. Palantir’s dynamic ontology along with intuitive front-end import and search around features allow analysts to quickly find connections in massive amounts of data.

NOTE: All data is notional, and for demonstration purposes only.

The Palantir Workspace in Your Local Language

Brandon — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:00:44 +0000

Awhile back we shared some screenshots of the Elvish Palantir Workspace. We’d like to give an update on our progress with real-world languages. Our internationalization work has enabled us to support menus, text, and buttons in any language, including complex languages such as Arabic and Dari. Also, multiple Palantir Workspace clients configured in different languages can work simultaneously on the same Palantir server.

Below you can see screenshots from version 3.1 of the login screen in Dutch, the Map in Arabic and in Dari, and the Graph in Spanish. Contact us if you want to know more about our internationalization work.

Dutch

Arabic

Dari

Spanish

How Palantir Aided the Investigators of “The Pearl Project: The Truth Left Behind”

Brandon — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:00:27 +0000

The Center for Public Integrity (CPI), in conjunction with Georgetown University, just completed a three and a half year project identifying the intricate network of co-conspirators in the kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Palantir provided its software platform to the investigators to support analysis of the data and help identify the links between the key actors involved in that heinous crime. The Pearl Project was co-directed by former Wall Street Journal reporter and friend of Daniel Pearl, Asra Nomani, and Barbara Feinman Todd, Journalism director in Georgetown University’s English Department.

Check out CPI’s post about the Project, the full report, or take a look at a chart of the key figures in the crime. The videos below show examples of how Palantir’s software enabled the investigators to uncover, analyze, and understand the network.

VAST 2010 Challenge

Brandon — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:00:31 +0000

Palantir participated in the IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2010 Challenge in June, and we were pleased to win a Grand Challenge Award for the third year in a row. This year, the VAST Challenge scenario revolved around an international arms dealing network that inadvertently causes the spread of a viral outbreak.

In mini-challenge 1, we are given synthetic intelligence documents about the arms dealing network, from which we structure and analyze the network in Palantir.

Watch the video »

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In mini-challenge 2, we use Horizon–now available in Palantir 3.0 as Object Explorer–to analyze 15 million patient records to determine the symptoms associated with the outbreak as well as the sequence of its spread internationally.

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Thanks to the VAST Committee for another great Challenge!

GovCon 6 session videos are now online

Jesse — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:09:04 +0000

Thanks to everyone who attended our 6th Government Conference. For those of you who weren’t able to join us, we’re happy to announce that videos of the day’s presentations are now available online here.

Our next Government Conference will be in the fall of 2011. We’ll share more details on that in the coming months.

If you’d like to reference our program guide from GovCon 6, you can find it here.

Update GovCon 7 has been announced, see this page for more details.

Maoism in India

Brandon — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:00:49 +0000

The Naxalite-Maoist insurgency is an ongoing conflict between Maoist groups, known as Naxalites or Naxals, and the Indian government.

The insurgency started as a peasant rebellion in the eastern Indian village of Naxalbari in 1967 and has currently spread to a large swath in the central and eastern parts of the country referred to as the “Red Corridor.” In 2006 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the Naxalites “the single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country.” In 2009, he said the country was “losing the battle against Maoist rebels.”

In this video, an analyst investigates the problem of Maoist insurgency in India both at macro and micro levels using publicly available data from the web integrated into Palantir.

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Analyzing Baseball With Palantir

Brandon — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:00:16 +0000

In 2007, specialized cameras were installed in every Major League Baseball stadium across the United States. These cameras capture an extensive amount of data for every pitch thrown. This data set is called PITCHf/x.

Brian Bannister, after a demotion to the minor leagues, took this data and through analysis was able to adjust his pitching to reclaim his spot in the major leagues.

In this demonstration, we will use the new Object Explorer application that is part of Palantir Government 3.0 to show the type of analysis that Bannister might have done.

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