Few weeks ago, as part of the DSCI Bangalore Chapter (http://www.dsci.in) one of the Business Leader presented his security concerns of his organizations. When asked what is the one problem that security professionals need to address, he said, the information about people behavioral aspects in terms of security. How does one gather and share the information ? How does one do background checks on the people. He felt and I agree that people are the weakest link and if there is a way to figure out the behavioral patterns than that would help control security incidence.

Cut to last week I attended Emtech 2009 (http://www.emtechindia.in/) a premier technology conference in India. Lot of interesting technologies from Biofuel to stem cell to Nano. One of the interesting and relevant technology demos that I saw was implementation of Analytics, data mining and predictive algorithms to publicly available data on internet say terrorists. For example it is now well known fact that many organizations act as front of terrorist organizations and they are well masqueraded in terms hierarchies of valid and invalid organizations. Individuals working in these organizations may be connected to banned organization. The data is then organized by links and layers and one can do a search on any organization to see if they are connected by any remote link to terrorist organization. 

So what do you think is it time for security analytics in personnel space ? or there would privacy issues in this ?