IM InfoSphere Identity Insight, Version 8.0

Visualizer

The Visualizer is a graphical user interface that analysts and investigators use to analyze the results of alerts, relationships, and entity resolutions.

The Visualizer is hosted by an embedded version of IBM WebSphere Application Server. You configure the Visualizer through the Configuration Console and through the Visualizer Preferences selection on the File menu.

Visualizer users can accomplish various analysis tasks:
Analyze and disposition alerts
Alerts generated by entity resolution processing represent relationships or entity resolutions of interest to an organization. Typically, analysts review alerts and decide what action to take, if any, based on the alert information. There are three types of alerts: role alerts, attribute alerts, and event alerts.
The Visualizer displays the alerts, providing analysts with both textual and graphical views of the alerts and the entities involved in the alerts. Analysts can drill down into the details and then set the disposition status of the alert appropriately.
Create and manage attribute alert generators
Using the Visualizer, analysts can create and manage persistent searches through the Attribute Alert Generator feature, and manage how they view and receive attribute alerts. Analysts can create Attribute Alert Generators based on attribute data to locate identities that resolved to entities based on that attribute data. Or analysts can create an Attribute Alert Generator to persistently search the entity database looking for a particular entity.
Find entities
Visualizer users can also find entities for further analysis using several methods:
  • By attributes
  • By data source account
  • By entity ID
  • By resolution (how closely the criteria entered matches identities and entities in the entity database, based on minimum resolution score thresholds)
Add entities and disclosed relationships
Analysts can use the Visualizer to add records for entity resolution and relationship detection. They can add a single identity record or load a UMF file containing a few thousand identity records. Just as when identity records are added through acquisition programs, records added through the Visualizer are processed by a pipeline for entity resolution and relationship detection. The results of processing are written to the entity database, and any alerts are published to the Visualizer.
Analysts can also disclose relationships between entities (by identity), when they know of a link between the identities. Examples of disclosed relationships include relating entities based on emergency contacts or references listed on an employment application. The entity disclosed these relationships on the application.
Generate and print reports
The Visualizer also contains several reports that analysts can view and print to help them manage and track their Visualizer work.


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Last updated: 2011