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ment tools , Securiport ’ s exclusive systems also conduct passenger biometric screening and security controls of travelers .
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Specifically , the IIMS include the following tools :
Securiport ’ s Intelligent Information Management System ( IIMS )
Securiport also offers an Intelligent Information Management System ( IIMS ), a second 2016 ‘ AS- TORS ’ Homeland Security Awards Winner for Securiport , is a unique , patented profiling system developed by Securiport that applies specialized data-mining techniques and complex algorithms to detect in real time persons of interest to the state .
• Provides specialized tools to generate profiles of criminal types .
• Collects , from multinational sources , structured and unstructured data relating to criminal activity .
• Uses the collected data to identify individuals who fit criminal profiles during immigration processing and in any other environments as the government might wish .
Intelligent Information Management System Comprises of :
• Intelligent data analysis
• Multi-source data mining
• Behavioral models
• Transnational crime detection
• Profile generation by criminal type
• Person-of-interest recognition in real time
• Intelligent information reports
1 . CRIMINAL-PRO FILE GENERATION TOOLS The criminal-profile generating tools provided with the IIMS allow government authorities to define in detail the typology of any number of categories of domestic or transnational criminals in such areas as human trafficking , drug smuggling , terrorism , weapons smuggling , money laundering , tax evasion , organized crime , and others .
2 . BACKGROUND DATA GATHERING The IIMS continuously searches worldwide sources for data related to active criminal profiles , analyzes the data with advanced data-mining techniques , and then stores the results in local databases . The data the IIMS obtains come from both structured and unstructured sources .
3 . RISK ASSESSMENT During immigration processing , or in other contexts as the security authorities might require , the IIMS determines if a subject ’ s personal background data matches a criminal profile , thus identifying a person of interest .
4 . DATA SECURITY Securiport does not operate the IIMS or have access to its data . This is performed by personnel of the client government fully trained by Securiport . All data is encrypted and only the client government has the keys to decode it , effectively preventing any external party from unauthorized
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