Kairos processes and correlates massive volumes of data from a wide variety of sources in real time.

Developed for military, government and high-value civilian targets such as nuclear facilities and smart grids, Kairos is the world's first compute appliance capable of addressing security threats to cyber-physical infrastructures in real time. Our advanced Kairos analytic core combines the blazing processing speed of the IBM InfoSphere Streams computing platform with coding that can analyze and act on data from a wide variety of sources — cyber and physical — instantaneously. The result is unmatched security against cyber attacks designed to destroy cyber and/or physical infrastructure. For example, a virus intended to overheat a core generator at a nuclear facility or take out communications at a command/control center.

Kairos is a rack mounted compute appliance customized to each client's specific location and needs. It taps directly into the backbone of any IT network — localized or cloud-based — and works like a central nervous system for security. Kairos offers an unparalleled range of benefits for securing cyber-physical infrastructure:

• Integrates with both localized and cloud-based network solutions.
• Processes data as it streams across networks and cyber infrastructure.
• Analyzes structured and unstructured data such as voice, text, video, email, digital and audio.
• Detects in real time anomalies in data streams moving at thousands of megabytes per second.
• Conducts computationally challenging analytics in a blink.
• Verifies threats to eliminate false positives.
• Adapts over time to monitoring criteria and its environment.
• Eliminates the need for expensive space-hogging data storage.
• Installs in rack-mountable servers on site.
• Integrates into any existing system.
• Requires just three days to fully install, integrate and test.

Kairos literally turns huge volumes of highly disparate, streaming data into security insight and enables our clients to act on it, instantly. To learn more about the IBM technology behind this system, check out their Big Data Platform and Infosphere Streams videos.