Private Sector

From the time the first steps were taken to create a national strategy for homeland security, the private sector was viewed as a key homeland security partner. An estimated 85% of the national infrastructure is owned and managed by the private sector. This infrastructure is likewise vulnerable to the same threats that are the concern of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The private sector is concerned with protecting its customers, employees, community, and facilities. A proactive approach is needed to reduce vulnerabilities and prevent threats. In addition, a vital operations approach can be taken to provide risk management and litigation management, and meet baseline insurance requirements.

Designed by experts in real-time infrastructure monitoring and management, the Altusys situation management technology goes beyond traditional operations and infrastructure management tools to provide a real-time view of threats and vulnerabilities, coordinated with corporate operations staff and community and regional homeland security centers. The Altusys approach integrates, in real-time, private sector infrastructure management with homeland security operations centers (HSOC) connecting over 35 agencies covering both intelligence and law enforcement. This integration includes:

• HSOC Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) which provides a secure real-time internet-based communications tool to all states and more than 50 major urban areas
• HSIN Critical Infrastructure to exchange alerts and notifications with the private sector at thousands of transactions per minute.
• HSOC threat advisories and information bulletins

Altusys is engaged in a wide spectrum of situation awareness, cognitive information fusion and decision support services related to net-centric operations, C4ISR, asymmetric warfare, infrastructure and cyber security, and telecommunications, data and sensor network management. Altusys services include:

Market analysis
Technology assessment
Requirements analysis
Vendor evaluation
System specification
Architecture and design
Prototype development

Knowledge engineering
Integration
User training
Technology education
Intellectual property
Proposals
White papers