IQware Applications for Government Agencies

Local, State, and Federal Agency Solutions

 

Data gathering, information sharing, inter-agency coordination and regulatory compliance are key IT needs for which you are accountable. The hard part is identifying IT systems that can really do this successfully, while maintaining continuity of your department's operations. Harder still is deploying such an IT system on time, on budget and while meeting all operational requirements and specifications.

IQware is a real-time Master Data Management (MDM) system that is designed for information acquisition, presentation, analysis, archiving and secure sharing. IQware is interactive, client-server and works with all existing legacy IT systems.

IQware is your ideal solution.

 

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IQware is targeted towards the regulated industries, which have the following requirements and characteristics:

• Flexibility and on-the-fly adaptability to new conditions and operational requirements
• Elimination of information stovepipes
• Collaboration across domains and departments
• Improved situational awareness
• A common operational data across domains and departments
• Access to the right data in real-time
• Elimination of information overload and miscommunication
• Better communication, coordination and national safety

IQware addresses these key agency challenges:

• Lack of complete domain information awareness
• Inability to share information without losing control of it
• Inability to efficiently access all necessary information
• Inability to correlate multiple factors to develop coordinated executable courses of action

Existing agency IT systems have one or more of these characteristics:

• Inflexible and non-adaptive
• Cannot add functionality without costly and time-consuming reprogramming
• Inadequate information integration with other systems
• Inadequate operational tracking, auditing, reporting capability
• Cannot meet operational and regulatory compliance with existing IT systems

IQware was designed to handle your specific issues.

IQware's patented (US Patent #7,322,028) software has three unique, differentiating and critical attributes:

1. It is hacker-proof and immune to desktop viruses (patented)
2. It is rule-based so it can be changed on-the-fly and without programming (patented)
3. It is interoperable so it works with emerging, hand-held wireless devices (patented)

IQware is a software product that can work with what you have already purchased and deployed right now. IQware is uniquely rule-based which significantly reduces - and may even eliminate - the need for expensive, error-prone custom code development during deployment. IQware's intelligent software solutions are:

• Rule-based so they can change on-the-fly without additional programming.
  • Imagine being able to change your software-on-the-fly-in response to a catastrophic situation like the 9/11 disaster, a time when calling a programmer to make changes to your code could actually cost human lives. IQware can provide you with this capability.
• Rule-based and centrally-managed for coordinated global deployment
  • Imagine if, during the Katrina disaster, all of the information concerning accessible routes out of New Orleans would have been housed securely in one area and attainable-in real time-to any and all individuals in a position of "needing to know." IQware can provide you with this capability.
• Interoperable so they work with emerging technologies, including hand-held devices
  • Cell phones and PDAs were operational during the 9/11 disaster. Imagine being able to access critical information, right from your PDA.
    IQware can provide you with this capability.
• Able to acquire data from any source, making IQware ideal for deployment across existing and disparate IT systems.
  • Imagine not having to spend countless hours with other departments, trying to ensure that a new user interface works with the disparate systems of these other departments. IQware can provide you with this capability.

IQware's Key Benefits to Federal Government Agencies:

• IQware is a COTS product - providing very low risk solutions
• IQware specializes in the "regulated industries" where audit trails & security are essential
• IQware specializes in the "regulated industries" where compliance verification is essential
• IQware can handle business intelligence, command / control center issues directly and is currently providing this for several customers

IQware Deployment Description:

IQware specializes in Command Center applications where communication, real-time data analysis and interoperability are necessary and required. As computer and hand-held technologies change, software should be able to adapt.

Major barriers to acquiring and deploying new software systems are:

• Huge deployment costs
• Operational and service interruptions
• Integration with existing systems
• Regulatory validation and auditing

IQware's intelligent solutions provide:

• Information sharing without loss of access control
• Information sharing while still controlling & tracking access
• Tailored, secure content management, analysis, delivery and presentation of data
• Information assurance and validation
• Interactive and comprehensive reports
• Interoperability with all existing systems
• Very high security with complete, tamper-proof audit trail
• Integration of information from disparate IT and legacy IT systems
• Real-time performance

IQware deploys on your existing IT infrastructure and works with your existing systems

IQware uses a secure Trusted Computing Base (TCB)

• Department of Defense rating of C2/B2; National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) Common Criteria (ISO 15408) minimum rating of EAL5
• A "Reference Monitor" mediates attempts by a subject to gain access to an object. An access control list is maintained as well as a tamper-proof audit trail of security-related events
• An authorization database serves as a repository of subject and object security attributes, including access modes and allowed operations.
• The IQware application is layered on the secure O/S, using the Reference Monitor architecture to implement the security policy while providing full accountability, tracking and assurance. This design ensures that the combination of the application and O/S will operate in accordance with the Department of Defense Secure System standards.
• An authorization database serves as a repository of subject and object security attributes, including access modes and allowed operations.
• The IQware application is layered on the secure O/S, using the Reference Monitor architecture to implement the security policy while providing full accountability, tracking and assurance. This design ensures that the combination of the application and O/S will operate in accordance with the Department of Defense Secure System standards.
• A "Reference Monitor" mediates attempts by a subject to gain access to an object. An access control list is maintained as well as a tamper-proof audit trail of security-related events.

What a secure system must do:

1. Implement Policy
   • Security Policy - System must enforce a well-defined security policy.
   • Marking - System must associate all objects with access control labels (sensitivity & access modes).
2. Ensure Accountability
   • Identification - System must identify individuals and their various authorizations in a secure manner.
   • Audit Trail - System must keep & protect audit trail so actions may be traced to responsible party.
3. Deliver Assurance
   • Evaluation - System must have hardware/software mechanisms that can be independently evaluated to assure that policy & accountability are enforced.
   • Continuous Protection - System must continuously protect trusted mechanisms that enforce policy & accountability from tampering.

IQware's unique software provides the necessary security features:

• Desktop virus-immunity
• Interconnectivity and communication with existing and legacy systems
• Rule-based design so that deployment can be altered and adapted real-time, on-the-fly as operational conditions change. This feature reduces deployment time considerably - which results in a huge cost reductions and immediate adaptation to a changing environment, as in the case of a natural or man-made disaster
• Deploys on all desktop platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Sun, etc., including emerging technologies
• Deploys on emerging hand-held and wireless platforms, PDAs, etc.

IQware's intelligent software - what makes our DNA better?

• RULE-BASED--Software's functionality can be changed on-the-fly without costly programming
• INTEROPERABLE--Architecture ensures compatibility with, and adaptability to, emerging technologies
• SECURE--Solves the ENTIRE security problem: All unauthorized data accesses are prevented
• CENTRALLY MANAGED--Can provide context-sensitive, interactive, on-demand content delivery and data analysis
• COOPERATIVE--Works WITH - not against - existing customer BI and IT systems

Rule-Based Software is Intelligent

Fundamentally, IQwareT is rule-based, meaning a set of "rules" - rather than formal programming code - is used to specify and control the operation of the IQware system, as delivered. This feature is fundamental to the architecture of IQware and is one of the primary reasons for its tremendous flexibility and intelligence.

Traditional software applications are developed through design and programming efforts. Nearly all decisions are made at the time of compilation and only a very restricted set of user inputs is allowed at run-time. There is almost no provision for significantly altering the behavior of the delivered system in response to significant changes in the operational environment and/or significant changes in the tasks that the system needs to correctly perform.

Whenever change occurs, the existing software system must be discarded and a new system designed, created and deployed. This is always an expensive undertaking and results in a serious loss of operational capability and continuity.

In contrast, with a rule-based system such as IQware, the software is highly flexible, adaptable-and intelligent. By design, it can be reconfigured as needed so it can adapt to radical changes in its operational environment. IQware can also adapt to significant changes in the tasks that the system is required to perform. This eliminates the need for extremely expensive re-design, re-programming and re-deployment of large-scale software systems. IQware's design also ensures 100% continuity of operations - even while reconfiguration is underway. This is a unique advantage of IQware and makes it suitable for all critical infrastructure applications.

IQware's Rule Sources and Types

IQware's rules come from various sources. The rules are informally categorized based on the areas of IQware's operation(s) that they control. The categories of items that are governed by rules are the following:

• Interactive data presentation and display
• Data acquisition and some pre-filtering
• Data analysis
• Menu items and operations
• Report output and formatting
• Database queries, data source(s) and related operations