The idea of Matrix was born in the cyber security field and for this reason the first declination of the project operates in that field: in this field the need to intervene quickly is fundamental.
The initial problem posed to me by a customer was simple: How do I find a threat before my customers find it? How do I prevent my clients from becoming victims?
The need was clear, find threats before they could be spread.
Thus began the design of a platform that would allow the identification of new threats or potential new threats that were not yet online.
The first phase of the project was promising in the opinion of those working on it. Unfortunately, a lack of resources limited the platform’s analysis capacity. So we tried to look for sponsors. We started contacting larger companies to see if they might be interested in helping us grow, unfortunately and fortunately no one showed interest. Unfortunately because the project took longer to reach a sufficient level of maturity. Luckily, because that lack of resources led us to review some very onerous processes in favor of others that were much more efficient.
Working on the platform and the data produced we realized that the incoming data allowed us to identify threats but that these were obviously a small percentage of the total. The rest was data relating to the real world, the one that produces, the one that has fun, the one we experience when we are not dealing with security. A new world had opened up, that of newly born or newly created realities, these realities could be seen before the others. We thus began to monitor some areas, creating some case studies: the main one was a case study relating to the world of mountain bikes. By activating some indicators we received periodic notifications (several times a day) which allowed us to intercept new activities, groups of cyclists and companies in the sector, before they became public or famous.
The success of this test led us to work even more intensely on the project and we decided to use the world of cyber security as a platform showcase.
In the next posts we will talk more about how the Matrix works and its evolutions.
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