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Dangerous Curves Ahead: Pursuit of Big Data in the 21st Century

Dangerous Curves Ahead: Pursuit of Big Data in the 21st Century. Federal Audit Executive Council November 28, 2012. David C. Williams Inspector General U.S. Postal Service . Black Swan Lake. Resource constraint and high risk Doing more with less Revolutionary era. Revolutions Unfolding.

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Dangerous Curves Ahead: Pursuit of Big Data in the 21st Century

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  1. Dangerous Curves Ahead: Pursuit of Big Data in the 21st Century Federal Audit Executive Council November 28, 2012 David C. Williams Inspector General U.S. Postal Service

  2. Black Swan Lake • Resource constraint and high risk • Doing more with less • Revolutionary era

  3. Revolutions Unfolding • Concentration of populations • Natural resources strained • Loss of privacy and security • Demands for continuous democracy • mCommerce eclipsing eCommerce

  4. Fraud Climate: Always Stormy • Many opportunities for fraud • Contract, healthcare, grants, benefits • These cases take hard work • Are they worth the effort?

  5. Fraud 101: The Fire of Desire • Bribery, extortion, kickbacks, false claims • What conditions are present? • Which safeguards are absent?

  6. Troubling Environment • Procurement fiefdoms, silos, lack of sharing • Contract growth from outsourcing • Unprepared for emerging threats • Data Matching Act

  7. Stealing Fire from the Gods • Vulnerable environment • Solutions: • Standardization • Data mining tools and best practices • Transparent, modern accounting system

  8. Claws that Catch; Teeth that Bite • Shared business intelligence platform • Tougher suspension and debarment • Sophisticated training • Real alliances

  9. Taking a Bite out of TeraBytes • The World of Big Data • Powerful tools that triage risk • Modernize Data Matching Act • Data crawlers to patrol 24/7

  10. Into the Woods • Conversion to GIS • Beauty of maps • Convergence of audit and investigative suites

  11. Future Initiatives • Shared platform of electronic weapons • Base map and dashboard libraries • Doing more with less

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