Project4 Technologies Ltd is a UK-based technology company established in 2014 that develops solutions to detect physical and cyber insider threats. They have received funding from the Centre for Defence Enterprise for two programs: one focused on detecting cyber insider attacks using digital patterns of life, and one focused on developing a mobile simulator for detecting physical insider threats. The simulator is designed to provide realistic training scenarios using avatars and animation to help users identify security risks.
2. • Established in 2014 following successful CDEbid focused on physical Insider
Attacks
• Technology focused organisation born out of adesire to build and advance
technologiesof the future acrossarange of subject areas
• Working with professionalsfromacademiaand industry to take conceptsfrom
theory to reality
• Working with the Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE)and the Defence Science
and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)
• Two CDEfunded programmesto date
๏ Cyber - Detecting Insider Attacks
๏ Preventing Physical Insider Attacks
Project4 TechnologiesLtd
Background
3. • Successfully won competition under the CDEcall ‘Cyber
Defence: Securing against the Insider Threat’
• Coventry University Computer Science and Behavioural
Psychology unitsworked in support assub contractors
• Utilise behaviour displayed through ‘Digital Pattern of Life’
• Develop analysismethod and bespoke algorithmsto detect
insider’s
• Development of bespoke Graphical User Interface (GUI)to
display and manage risk
Cyber Insider Attacks
CDEFunded Cyber Programme
4. Demonstrator
Cyber Insider AttacksProgramme
• Focused on understanding ausersdigital
Pattern of Life (PoL), both Typical and Atypical
• Dedicated research element focused on
understanding howthese typesof attack occur
• Defining relevant PoLbehaviours
• Answering the question “Can we detect the
tell?”
• Prototype, Bayesian based algorithmcapable
of detecting defined behavioursfor onward
analysis
• Developed Graphical User Interface (GUI)
capable of displaying and classifying potential
insider attack occurrences
• IPsolely owned by Project4 TechnologiesLtd
5. • Prototype completed to TRL4
• Ready for future development
• Potential for Defence and Commercial application
• Expandable to other market verticalssuch asfraud, IP
protection and health care
• Complete Project4 offering could be fully available in
2016 following future development and exploitation
• We require both investment and technical expertise to
progressthe innovation
Project4 Technologies
Cyber Insider AttacksProgramme
6. CDEFunded Physical Insider AttacksSimulator
• Successfully won competition under the CDEcall
‘Countering Insider Threat Attacks’
• Focused on detecting physical insider attacks
• Creating potential real life situationsfor the user based on
psychological profiling of attack vectors
• Utilisation of Coventry University Psychology and
Behavioural Sciencesexpertise
• Use of realistic Avatarsand animation to display key
characteristicsasper our findings
• Designed to operate on tablet or mobile device
• Creation of aSemi-immersive learning experience
• Providing amore ‘entertainment’ based learning
experience
Physical Insider Attacks
7. • Expandable to avariety of learning requirements
• Additional environments
• Statistical datacollection for:
• Compliance monitoring
• Training needsanalysis
• Skillsgapsidentification
• Ability to formpart of initial training aswell as
continuouslearning and Personal Development Reviews
• Providing arapidly up-dateable platformfor both
threats, risksand locations
• Using familiar technology and game play to increase skill
and risk identification
Developing acrossarange of scenariosand end users
CDEFunded Physical Insider AttacksSimulator
8. CDEFunded Physical Insider AttacksSimulator
• Simulator designed to be apersonal issue
companion device
• Unlimited learning areas- platforming
• Envisage major opportunitiesfor
expansion in all areasof security sector,
especially where the use of fixed simulator
technology iseither impractical or unable
to dynamically adapt to change
• Currently developing opportunitieswithin
the lawenforcement environment
• Interested in working with partners
• Desire to work with national and
international military organisations
• IPsolely owned by Project4 Technologies
Ltd
Physical Insider Attacks