"The relative inability of commercial organisations to share [cyber] threat information, to collaborate and to build off one another is hampering the resilience of the industry as a whole" says Palantir's Meline von Brentano.
The way that governments use vast amounts of personal data to identify security threats has come under massive scrutiny recently. Government programmes like Prism, Tempora and Socmint have been variously criticised as invasions of privacy and defended as crucial safety measures.
Palantir, founded in 2004 by PayPal's Alex Karp and Peter Thiel, has been an industry leader in inventing technologies that allow analysts to search databases of information, identifying patterns and visualising threats. One of Palantir's crucial innovations was a workable "access ladder" that made it straightforward to allow data to be shared to only those with the appropriate security clearance.
By: Kadhim Shubber, Edited by: Nate Lanxon
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/01/palantir-meline-von-brentano
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