Information Exploitation

What is meant by Information Exploitation?

Can you remember a time when you wrote a letter to someone and you would be happy to receive a response within a week? What about relying on the availability of published material in company archives or libraries to educate you on your latest project? And if we got lost en route to a client meeting, we were virtually reliant on a public telephone, a passing policeman or the general knowledge of a local shop keeper!

Over the past decade, the way we interact as people and as businesses has changed beyond recognition. This is due to our ability to exploit the information and associated knowledge provided to us by ever-evolving Information Communications Technology systems.

Effectively using and exploiting the mass of information that is increasingly generated, collated and distributed via these systems, allows organisations to improve the quality and efficiency of the services they provide. It enables a distributed but connected community to share vital information, when and where required, reducing the time in the decision making process and improving service delivery.

Why is Information Exploitation so important?

With powerful information architectures being installed across complex public and private sector organisations alike, business transformation strategies are now being produced to maximise the potential of information exploitation.

The exploitation of IT lies at the heart of the UK's Government transformation agenda; it is the foundation on which the UK National Security Strategy sits (with particular relevance to the UK Cyber Security Strategy), while the UK MOD's vision of Network Enabled Capability cannot improve front-line capability without it.

With the Defence Information Infrastructure at its centre, information exploitation will continue to gain greater profile and attention. This is likely to gain a further push with the scheduled update to the MOD's Information Strategy in autumn 2009, which is likely to outline the conditions required to establish a fully coherent, secure and exploitable Defence information capability.

Information Exploitation Considerations

The more information is shared, the greater need there is for effective information security, assurance and identity management solutions. As organisations increasingly harness the power of information exploitation, so they must ensure that they protect themselves against this information being lost, corrupted and misused. They must demonstrate their ability to secure the integrity of their data, the way it is stored and distributed, and their compliance with regulatory specifications.

VEGA is able to provide its clients with insight on how best to share information, as well as advise on how to avoid the information assurance pitfalls associated with the increased interoperability.

We can offer organisations independent advice and pragmatic solutions to their information exploitation challenges. This expertise is based an extensive track record of working alongside ours clients to deliver secure interoperability solutions across a variety of ICS programmes.

The links below, provide access to VEGA’s latest thinking and related activities supporting Information Exploitation.