Analytical Techniques Pt 3
Mental Errors caused by our simplified information processing strategies
What is cognitive bias?
To inform or report or to warn.
What are two types of intelligence written products?
Actionable, Accurate, Objective, Relevant, Timely, Comphrehensive
What are Characteristics of Intelligence Products?
The hub of non-partisan, public service support to the Prime Minister and Cabinet and its decision-making structures.
What is The Privy Council Office (PCO)?
Planning, Collection, Collating, Analyzing, dissemination and re evaluation are all steps of this process.
What is the Intelligence Cycle?
These developed because of intelligence failures, increased appreciation of cognitive limitations, pressures to be more collaborative and a desire by policymakers to have analysis more transparent
What are SAT's (Structured Analytical Techniques?)
A decision maker should be able to read the first paragraph of your paper, and know the focus (both the “what” and “so what”) without reading any further.
What is BLUF?
•a short report giving the basic facts about indicators or persons related to a threat that is time-critical.-EG weather warning, amber alert, BOLF
What is An “Intelligence Alert”?
Created in 2005 as result of 9/11 and largely based on the US Department of Homeland Security model except it doesn’t cover maritime sovereignty.
What is Public Safety Canada?
Blog posts, newspaper articles, websites, and court records are examples of this type of information.
What is Open Source Information? (OSINT)
A form of brainstorming used to generate questions in a systematic ,comprehensive way
What is Starbursting?
Words such as likely or probably
What are WEP's or words of estimative Probability
•typically provides a historical perspective of a threat and how the current status of the threat has changed. EG Overview of Cartels in BC
What is an “Intelligence Assessment"?
This agency collects and analyzes information and security intelligence from across the country and abroad, and reports to and advises the Government of Canada on national security issues and activities that threaten the security of Canada.
What is CSIS?
Protecting identification of sources and methods are the goal of this
What is classification?
This SAT allows us to make our analytical judgements based on a combination of information at hand, assumptions and preconceptions.
What is Key Assumption Check
The use of these can relay information far more powerfully than any narrative, summarize data, and add meaning
What are graphics?
•Accidents, such as a spilled cup of coffee or a mistyped letter, are frequently inconsequential, but the adverse effects of some threat events, like a major toxic spill or pilot error in a large commercial airliner, can be truly catastrophic.
What is an accidental threat?
•Members include: Canada, Australia, UK, US and New Zealand
What is Five Eyes?
Access to information is determined by this.
What are security clearances?
Imaginative thinking is where we consider other possibilities.
What is one categorization of SAT's
The first writing step is to identify AIMS, what does this stand for?
What are: 1.AIMS (Audience, Intelligence Question, Message, Storyline)?
Gravity and likelihood equals _____________
What is overall Threat level?
This position is posted at Canadian diplomatic missions worldwide. They collect relevant information from foreign police services and security intelligence agencies and from open sources, such as newspapers, periodicals, domestic broadcasts and official documents.
What are CSIS Security Liaison Officers (SLO)?
A dotted line between entities on a chart indicates this.
What is an unconfirmed link?