Ep. 177 A New Perspective on Understanding Threat Intelligence

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When you watch a spy movie you get the impression that the federal government’s intelligence agencies have unlimited funds for intelligence, satellites, and anything else that sounds mysterious.

Well, today’s interview will reinforce the concept that every federal agency has a limited budget. Money is allocated to buy test tubes at NIH or purchase intelligence data.

There may be situations where federal agencies may not be able to access information from the dark web, or they may get overwhelmed with the volume of data produced on any given day.

Today, we sat down with McDaniel Wicker to talk about how Babel Street is positioned to provide reliable data to federal agencies.

Babel Street began with a focus on foreign language knowledge acquisition. During the interview, McDaniel shared how Babel Street has grown into a service that can provide a wide range of information for various clients.

McDaniel’s company has the technology to sift through information in a wide variety of languages to understand sentiment. As a result, they are positioned to do expensive, original research or even just confirm suspicious activity for an agency.

Listen to the interview to get a better perspective on how the federal government can leverage artificial intelligence and multiple sources to provide timely information that can result in responsible decisions.