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Surveillance

The increasing use of surveillance cameras to protect the public has meant there is a growing need for the information being collected to be correctly controlled, categorized and stored.   The Forts’ solution can be used to store information as feeds from cameras, encrypting it locally to the camera and adding metadata showing when and where it was recorded so ensuring the provenance of the data can be assured. 

Access to the data can then be controlled based on the metadata so it cannot be misused.   Control of the cameras can also be manipulated based on a range of criteria including the user day and time of day and the machine that it is controlled from.

All feeds from cameras are fed directly into a local CamConnect unit which encrypts the data stream and ensures no unauthorized changes are made.

When used in a multi-Agency environment it ensures access can be granted to those who have the need and the authority whilst still ensuring it cannot be passed on to others outside the secure environment.

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Financial Research

With very large databases being the core of many financial groups operations the need to have a secure depository and tight access control to meet regulatory compliance and ensure information is ring fenced within the organization.  Differing groups and departments need to be able to access data for financial decision making whilst others need to be able to access just user details. 

The Forts’ solution allows the data held to be classified under a very large set of conditions so it is possible to permit access only to information that meets specific qualifiers without opening up access to a complete database for example.   The flexibility of the access configurations allows control by site, time, user as well as specifying what the user can do with the resulting information.

 

Medical research

 

With the increase in cyber-attacks on pharma research and development information, businesses in this sector need to ensure that neither intentional or accidental actions by users will increase the risk of data compromise.   With the value of new drug research being in the billions of dollars, bad actors are increasingly targeting this information by whatever means possible.  Offering people life changing financial incentives can lead to the most loyal staff viewing the theft of research data as a risk worth taking.

By using the Forts’ solution medical research organizations can ensure the security and integrity of their data which controlling all access and egress of data by pre defined rules.  All transactions are logged and any attempts to access information that is not authorized so prevented is also logged.

 

Multi Business Operations

With many groups expanding by acquiring other large organizations, often across disparate business sectors, the need to centralize information in a secure environment whilst still keeping information in separate data silos has become desirable for many operating entities.  Using the Forts’ solution, it is now possible to utilize this single flexible solution to host all the sensitive data in a large centralised secure data centre, whilst still retaining the separation and access required by differing legislative requirements.  Having the flexibility to share storage dynamically ensures the changing business needs can be serviced efficiently from a single point.

 

Law Enforcement

Access to information within the Law Enforcement area is a complex requirement where the balance between maintaining appropriate need to know restrictions whilst permitting authorized users across a range of agencies swift and unconstrained access to what they need. The Forts’ solutions very granular ability to classify data and allow access control based on a number of criteria means it is ideally suited to a State or National Law Enforcement operations.