Reusing supposed benign systemic data to achieve greater security

Utilities are becoming more dependent on sensor data to manage their operations and business processes. This data can be reused to facilitate National Security through the analysis of what appear to be benign events. Such events seldom occur and are justifiably categorized as outliers. However, they may indicate terrorist activity in a particular context and in the presence of other identical or associated benign events. An integrated approach is needed that will analyze these events. When statistically significant associations are discovered, the event\´s significance is raised accordingly; i.e. the event\´s importance is escalated. Specific human experts must be made aware of the exceptional events if and only if a particularly appropriate level of significance is determined using an "event escalation" process. This process is only possible given the right information architecture.