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Oakland Tribune Interview for their 9/11 anniversary edition

Just before heading off on vacations, I was interviewed by the Oakland Tribune for their 9/11 anniversary edition to discuss how ILOG supports the US Department of Homeland Security and the Intelligence community. Here’s the excerpt. Enjoy the reading.

"ILOG Inc. of Mountain View, the U.S. division of ILOG SA of France, sells business analytics software now widely used for intelligence purposes.

ILOG is "helping the Department of Homeland Security identify risks," said Pierre Henri Clouin, ILOG’s industry marketing manager for government. "Our software is used to enable intelligence analysts to model risk profiles and use them to screen data that can come from many sources."

U.S. ports, for instance, install ILOG’s software to screen data coming on the manifest of container ships for potential security risks. The software matches that data against U.S. intelligence profiles of destinations and senders that may raise red flags.

Intelligence agencies use ILOG’s technology "to manage risk profiles in real time, so that if an event comes along they are able to respond very quickly and (act) in a matter of minutes," Clouin said. Another ILOG application helps manage how that information is shared among various intelligence agencies, including determining access to the data."