About Us
BSS Unit is a company devoted to resilience, automation, strategic thinking, tactical execution, and sustainability. For people, for businesses, for supply chains, for governments.
Crisis prevention and management is the environment in which our philosophy was born, and in which our software development culture thrives.
Story
We have always fought the good fight
We now face a global landscape where Russia invading Ukraine is catalyzing a new level of global cyber warfare implications, with particular attention to U.S. targets, according to NATO and the U.N.
The spec-ops military experience of BSS Unit leadership is relevant. Our team understands what is necessary for resilience in automation, supply chains, M&A scenarios, logistics and transportation, worldwide maritime shipping. Manufacturing, energy sector, health care, food supply, medical devices, financial services and hardware devices, critical infrastructure. Our expertise, deceptive technology, machine learning, and human analysis focuses on ICS controlled OT systems, including the SCADA systems and overlaying interactive software that controls SCADA.
We are locked and loaded to see cyber-crimes in real time, what the likely future evolutions of attacks will be, and correlating commercial crime intel with political implications. We are also Red Team/Blue Team specialists, able to strategize, threat hunt, and assist law enforcement in counterattack.
Our experience started decades ago with special military and police personnel in Europe as well as war-torn countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan. We gained expertise protecting diplomats and embassies, critical buildings, facilities, and convoys in Europe and the Middle East. We also aided in the development of critical infrastructure (e.g. water, electricity), and the resilience systems.
We also specialize in crisis zones (e.g.: war zone disaster areas), mapping and analyzing the risk factors, short-, medium-, and long-term protection, physical and cyber security.
With a focus always on resilience, we have also built national humanitarian organizations and relief agencies.
Crisis zones prepared us not only for government and utility services, but gold-standard strategy and execution capability for corporate entities, including resilience not only of network infrastructure, security screening, DAST-level services, but also business and physical aspects: The service insurance, administration, control of transportation routes through the physical insurance, accounting for armed close protection, anti-riot vehicles.
Today the mechanical protection of assets, technical equipment and information systems must be absolutely reliable. These are a part of our core disciplines, and enables our suite of comprehensive products and services.
Spirit
Tactical
Tactics are only as good as the strategic thinking that frames them. To be strategic, you must have the ability to see accurate, encyclopedic data in real time, derive accurate intel, and then execute the tactics, step by step, for the future. To achieve a one-year target plan, you must know which tactics you will employ and deploy every day between now and then. This approach is our specialty, specifically born and trained by our crisis management experience.
Resilient
Armed with deceptive technology, worldwide patented and NATO endorsed authentication and encryption, and fully integrated automation that enables accurate data blockchain flow, we have all basis of resilience covered.
Sustainable
You’re only as reliable as your data. To be sustainable in supply chains, in human and cyber interaction, in protocols, there must be a way to access, control, authenticate and trace accurate data.
The linchpin is that these methods must form a bridge to meet people, businesses, and governments where they are now, with function and fit that people reach for instead of obviate.
Team
Part of strategic thinking is knowing that the people behind your products are most important. When we develop or acquire technology, the inventor stays with us, has stake, is empowered. We integrate our solutions, and our team is as collaborative as our products. Award-winning patented developers, Red Team/Blue Team leaders in Military exercises, inventors, and senior analysts — this is our team.
Andras Patkai
Chief Executive Officer
Andras Patkai, the CEO of BSS Unit, brings decades of cross-pollinated core disciplines to the encyclopedic mission of resilience. Patkai’s past and present duties include global involvement as a security analyst, cyber-crime prevention strategist, political lobbyist in the European Parliament, Commission and Council, and as a counterintelligence and weapons education consultant for the International Security Academy (ISA).
The result of Patkai’s experience is to lead product development and integration of BSS Unit assets to best serve the evolving, custom needs of vertical markets and critical infrastructure organizations. Just one of many examples is BSS Unit’s energy storage installations that are combined with cybercrime prevention and authentication solutions.
As a team leader and diplomat, Patkai also enables BSS Unit products, solutions and services to address the legal and political issues surrounding securing automation.
Patkai participates in the Biometric Technical Interoperability Workshop of the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA), and is a panelist and participant at the regular “Inclusive Bio- and Crypto- Innovation: How Law and Technology Co-Evolve” event of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Roberto Gottardello
Government Consultant
Roberto Gottardello spent almost 30 years serving covert military operations for the United States Dept of Defense, Department of State, and other agencies. Prior to serving the U.S. military, Roberto served the SAS in the U.K. He is a helicopter and fighter jet pilot, and an intelligence analyst who speaks five languages, and has conducted U.S. operations all over the world. He is also a sniper, and trained Marines at Quantico.
Like BSS Unit’s mission, Gottardello comes from a lifetime of crisis prevention and management, and brings those skills to cybercrime prevention, physical resilience, and secure automation.
Rivka Tadjer
Corporate Consultant
Rivka Tadjer spent 20 years as a business and tech journalist, covering privacy, security, identity theft, data mining, artificial intelligence and supply chains, focusing on the sociological implications of technology: how our behavior is changing in a TikTok/Dark Web culture. She has also served as both a Chief Marketing Officer and Chief of Staff for fintech companies, including building tech startups, and staffs of 500 in larger companies, and running an NGO. She holds a patent for co-inventing a payments app that replaces University Student ID cards. She also served as a Point of Contact for the White House National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC), on the Cyber Security research and working groups for critical infrastructure. She presently also serves on the Advisory Board of K-12 Six, a Global Resilience Federaton ISAC devoted to protecting U.S. schools.
Tadjer serves BSS Unit with her background in business infrastructure, development, vertical market vulnerabilities, market predictions and profiling. She helps companies build resilient and sustainable businesses.
Strategic Partners
Global Resilience Federation
We are Strategic Partners of the Global Resilience Federation, a Virginia-based non-profit organization created to connect security and information sharing communities, for mutual defense, leveraging nearly 20 years of ISAC and ISAO expertise in the critical infrastructure arena.
The Axalton Group
BSS Unit Inc. is an Axalton Group company, meaning our national security, resilience, and sustainability ethos stands at the core of our activities. The group’s investments into the development of resilient software platforms, cybersecurity solutions, grid-scale energy storage, green energy, food chain security, bioremediation, and healthcare solutions provide a hotbed for innovation and cross-sector enhancement for all our projects.
MIT
We are panelists and participants at the regular “Inclusive Bio- and Crypto- Innovation: How Law and Technology Co-Evolve” event of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P), Media Lab Department. A forum where lawyers are immersed in formulating the framework of regulation on disruptive technologies as early as possible. Organized by Dr. Andreas Mershin, director of the MIT Label Free Research Group, and Boston-based innovation attorney Dimitrios Ioannidis, co-founders of the Osmocosm non-profit foundation.
NATO
We are members of the Biometric Technical Interoperability Workshop of the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA). Participants include defense delegations from NATO member states, US government agencies including Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC), Department of Defense Program Management Biometrics (DoD PM Bio), and US Army Europe and Africa (USAREUR-AF). NATO is represented by Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), NATO Special Operations Headquarters (NSHQ), NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCD COE) and the NCI Agency. Partner Organizations are INTERPOL, EUROPOL, European Union Agency for the Operational Management of the Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA), Biometrics Institute, and academia.