DarkCyber for November 20, 2018, Now Available: Part Four, Amazon Poised for Policeware Growth

DarkCyber for November 20, 2018, is now available at http://www.arnoldit.com/wordpress and on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/301440474.

In this week’s program (the fourth in the DarkCyber four part series about Amazon’s new services), Stephen E Arnold reveals how the sense making and analytics system will allow Amazon to expand its services into regulatory agencies in the US and in other countries. 

Amazon’s push into policeware enables a broad market push. In addition to serving the US government, Amazon’s technology for advanced intelligence analysis allows the company to provide regulatory agencies with high value ways to fulfill their mission. The Securities & Exchange Commission and the Internal Revenue Service could become customers of the Amazon GovCloud based system.

Real time information processing and powerful analytics like cross correlation across disparate data sources can reduce costs and improve the efficiency of the agencies’ enforcement efforts.

Stephen E Arnold said, “Amazon’s push to provide services to a major US intelligence agency and to win the Department of Defense cloud computing contract worth about $5 billion are significant. Amazon’s apparent goal is to disrupt and then displace existing vendors of similar services. Amazon is well positioned to rework in a radical way the way city, county, state, and federal government agencies perform analytic and intelligence related work. Furthermore, Amazon’s platform reaches the UK law enforcement community, and it could migrate to Canada, New Zealand, and Australia as well. The impact of Amazon’s policeware is likely to be far more significant than a single JEDI contract.”
The final video in this DarkCyber series makes clear that Amazon has a strategic objective for its machine learning and advanced analytics platform.

In addition, commercial enterprises may seek to make sense of their business related data and information. Financial services firms and pharmaceutical companies are among the most information intensive businesses. Amazon could easily become a disruptive force in the traditional business intelligence market.

About Stephen E Arnold

Stephen E Arnold is the author of “Dark Web Notebook” and “CyberOSINT: Next Generation Information Access.” This book describes some of the technologies used by Cambridge Analytica to acquire and analyze Facebook user data. He has been named as a technology adviser to the UK based Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Human Trafficking and Child Sex Abuse.” Mr. Arnold also lectures to law enforcement and intelligence professionals who will be attending the September 2018 Telestrategies ISS conference in Washington, DC, in September 2018. In recent months, he has shared his research with law enforcement and intelligence professionals in the US and Europe. His most recent lectures focus on deanonymizing chat and digital currency transactions. One hour and full day programs are available via webinars and on-site presentations. He publishes the free Web log “Beyond Search,” which is available at www.arnoldit.com/wordpress
 

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