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DSSi Services

   DSSi is built on a foundation of innovative thinking about how organizations can best survive and thrive in an extremely diverse, complex, and increasingly interconnected world. Our approach is to introduce to each relationship a new set of capabilities—-processes and structures to enhance their fitness for better survival in the global and technological environment. From this intellectual base, we have created the following set of service offerings for understanding organizational metatempo, developing and implementing strategic decisions and innovations, and protecting the value of organizational assets, tangible and intangible.

  ICT Strategy Development & Implementation

   DSSi provides strategic counsel to governments, transnational organizations, and international companies in the use and deployment of information and communications technologies in order to make an effective transition into the modern digital age and maintain competitiveness in the global electronic economies. Our services in this area include:

• Assessment of existing ICT infrastructure and systems against functional requirements (economic, legal, political, operational, etc.)
• Design of ICT architectures and evolutionary strategies to enhance performance
• Planning for and implementation of large-scale system integration initiatives
• Proposition of cost-effective and secure technology solutions
• Elaboration of strategic ICT plans
• Management of the implementation process, from the RFP stage to vendor and project management, etc.

  New Applications of ICT Technologies

  DSSi has developed proprietary technologies in computer security; anti-viral computer systems; cryptographic methods; agent-based modeling; computer interfaces; and massively-distributed, massively-parallel processing systems. We integrate our tools into the development and deployment of solutions tailored to meet clients’ specific needs, in many new areas of applications, such as:

• Modernization of international financial infrastructure, including electronic payments and e-commerce transaction processing
• Implementation of e-government and e-society initiatives
• Creation of new financial networks
• Development of new business models and applications in media, finance, and services
• Business process re-engineering

  Our activities in this area include design, architecture, prototyping, modeling, and implementation of ICT systems and applications to amplify intelligence, augment the decision process, and facilitate collaboration, communication, transactions, entertainment, and community memory.

  Information Assurance, Security, and Risk Management

  Using our proprietary framework for assessing risks and threats to organizational safety and security, DSSi designs and implements custom solutions for monitoring, measuring, managing, and mitigating such risks and threats. Our services in this area include:

• Information security and information assurance
• IT security auditing and penetration testing
• Risk analysis and threat assessment
• Vulnerability assessment
• Contingency planning, crisis prevention and management
• Design and implementation of critical infrastructure protection measures

  Intelligence Analysis and Decision Support

  DSSi’s principals are acknowledged leaders in open-source and next-generation intelligence, and have developed a highly effective, proprietary decision support process. We offer a comprehensive spectrum of intelligence and decision support products and services to enhance clients’ organizational metatempo, and maximize the real value of key strategic decisions and innovations. These include:

• Current reporting/tripwires/indicator alerts
• In-depth analyses
• Competitive intelligence
• Due diligence
• Market assessments
• Scenarios and simulations
• Development of strategies/tactics/courses of actions