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1. People Who Know How
To Protect Your Assets

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Whether your assets are your people, your customer data, your
intellectual property, your infrastructure, or your product, any security
breach is costly. Margins can disappear. Services can be disrupted.
Reputations can be lost. So can lives.
Protecting Linear Assets Cyber Security
Pipeline operators have huge linear assets to monitor. Flying the Volpe is the US National Transportation Systems Center, charged
pipeline is one way of making sure no one is hot-tapping your with running the control systems for the country’s critical
pipe – or that it has not been compromised by building activity transport infrastructure. Think air traffic control, rail safety
or landslides. But that’s an expensive solution that does not systems, passenger security... We have people who know how
provide real time reporting. We have people who know how to to analyse cyber threats and protect these systems from attack.
use our OptaSense® technology to monitor the pipeline – or any Our cyber security experts are working with Volpe to develop
linear asset – and give good warning of any untoward activity. the very best protection, keeping the US traveling safely.
We have deployed solutions in Europe, Vietnam, Nigeria, Iraq,
the UAE and the US, monitoring 5% of the world’s oil. Force Protection
In a combat zone, understanding where you, your people and
Information and Intelligence your vehicles are is vital. We have people who know how to
The most secure parts of government need to be able to locate assets wherever they are. Our Bushman® asset tracking
use IT just as the rest of us do. But security is paramount. service is a secure pay-as-you-go solution. Combat tested and
We have people who know how to deliver intelligence-led proven, it can be man, vehicle or aircraft mounted. No network
protective monitoring which will satisfy the most stringent infrastructure is needed, so it can be set up in minutes. We
of requirements. We are the partner that the heart of UK provide blue-force tracking to UK and NATO forces, protecting
Government trusts to look after its data. This pedigree led assets, saving lives.
Logica and SAP to select QinetiQ to join their bid to provide
Rail
data services to the UK’s future smart metering initiative.
The theft of copper from UK railway lines costs millions.
Not only does the network provider have to replace the
copper, but services are disrupted. Penalties payable to train
operators for service outages increase the cost. We have people
who know how to tackle these problems using OptaSense®
technology. Currently being investigated outside the UK as well
by rail operators such as Deutsche Bahn, the solution will create
a ‘nervous system’ alongside railway tracks which will detect
potential thieves before they can compromise services.