GovCon5 was a huge success! For those of you who missed it — or simply just want to relive the experience — we’ve made the conference’s most exciting presentations available to enjoy and share, all in high definition.
Welcome and Introduction
Dr. Alex Karp, CEO, Palantir
Dr. Karp provides an introduction to Palantir and discusses the highlights of the conference.
Shadows in the Cloud – Investigating Cyber Espionage 2.0
Nart Villeneuve, Chief Security Officer, SecDev Group
Successful cyber investigations require an ability to piece together disparate technical and contextual datasources to develop a comprehensive picture of an adversary and their methods of attack. In this session, a complex and recent high profile investigation will be walked through, from within Palantir.
Using Palantir to Analyze Iranian Global Influence
Doug Philippone, Palantir
Iran poses a unique challenge to our national defense, they are actively involved as an adversary to United States interests at the tactical, operational, strategic, and political levels. Iran is expanding its influence into Iraq, Afghanistan, Latin America, has aspirations to become a Nuclear power while sponsoring global terrorism through its surrogate, Hezbollah. In light of these issues, Palantir has worked closely with researchers and open source information to help understand Iran, its alliances and economic dependencies, military strengths and projects to help better understand this important player on the world stage.
Using Palantir with Open Source Data: Finding and Preventing Fraud in Stimulus Spending
Douglas Hassebrock, Assistant Director, Investigations, Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board
Alex Fishman, Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (HR.1) established the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board to prevent and detect fraud, waste and abuse in Stimulus Spending. Analysts use Palantir to carry out their mission by fusing open source and transactional data sets to find anomalous spending patterns. Once anomalous behavior has been discovered analysts link the corporate entities and individuals associated with the fraud to build a target package for investigation and prosecution by the appropriate agencies in the oversight community. The Board captures its analytical experience by building predictive models in Palantir that agencies use to better allocate resources to combat fraud.
What’s New in Palantir Government 2.4new!
Bob McGrew, Director of Engineering, Palantir
We are pleased to announce the release of Palantir Government version 2.4. In this release we had one major focus – enabling the Palantir community. We did by enabling the analyst through improved data scale, improved collaborative functions and a wide range of usability enhancements. We also did this by enabling the Palantir administrator through the addition of new administrative interfaces and numerous administrative usability enhancements. All these changes were driven directly by user feedback which continues to be the most important way that we prioritize product development. Together we have built the best Palantir iteration yet and we are extremely excited to share it with all of you.
Breakout Sessions
Palantir 101new!
Saad Abdali, Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir
Saad walks through a brief history of Palantir and introduces the Palantir platform.
Project Horizon: Exploring Big Datanew!
John Garrod, Software Engineer, Palantir
Will Barley, Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir
Project Horizon began as an internal Palantir skunkworks project to build an Object Explorer. Built on the Palantir platform, Horizon powers top-down “haystack to needle” analysis on vast quantities of data to find even the unknown unknowns. Knowing what you’re looking for when you start is no longer a requirement; exploring interactively until you “know it when you see it” is no longer a dream. Horizon is a cloud technology – infinitely scalable on commodity hardware – and is driving previously impossible analysis in the realms of cyber, financial, oversight, and SIGINT investigation on billion and trillion-scale datasets. Presented by one of the engineers who built it, this presentation offers a unique look into Palantir’s culture of continuous innovation and the shape of future generations of the Palantir Government platform.
ICD 501: Multi-Level Security Enabled by Palantirnew!
Asher Sinensky, PhD, Palantir
Over a year ago the Office of the Director of National Intelligence signed Intelligence Community Directive 501 (ICD 501). ICD 501 succinctly outlines the roles, rights and responsibilities of the Intelligence Community with regards to the ‘Discovery and Dissemination or Retrieval of Information within the Intelligence Community’. A review of these policies reveals that many of the outlined responsibilities will require the adoption of new technologies if they are going to be implemented. In particular, ICD 501 includes the need for a multi- level security environment which Palantir is uniquely able to deliver. In this talk we will explore the ways Palantir meets the requirements laid out in ICD 501 with a specific focus on Multi-Level Security.
Palantir Extensibility: Using Custom Integrations to Enrich Analytic Workflowsnew!
Lawrence Jesper, Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir
Bryan Knight, Developer Support Engineer, Palantir
Robin Lim, Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir
Palantir’s extensibility model enables custom plugin development and integration with third-party software to supplement out of the box analytic workflows. A small sample of plugins and integrations available in Palantir will be demonstrated by the Palantir engineer responsible for their creation. The Workflow Application plugin enables Palantir to be a light-weight case management system. The Net Helper integrates third party data sources to extract cyber information from domain names and IP Addresses. And, the Palantir Map Application and API allow Open Street Maps, a third-party tile source, to seamlessly integrate with Palantir.
