Enhancing Public Safety with Digital Forensics

Law enforcement and national security agencies are increasingly deploying a vast array of digital forensics tools in their ongoing fight against online criminals, monitoring threat actors and rapidly advancing investigations to guard public safety.

Challenges Facing Analysts

With illegal activities continuing to grow with increasing frequency and easy access to social networks, open, deep, and dark web spheres, criminals, terrorists , and threat actors use these vast data sources to exploit the web to their advantage.

They can plan, plot, and carry out activities in relative anonymity as they are fast leveraging their own technological advances to become covert and act while covering their digital footprints.

However, investigators, analysts, and cyber experts are quietly fighting back with a whole host of cyber forensics tool innovations that can also search online anonymously, amass enormous banks of data and sift through it to provide a broader picture as part of ongoing investigations.
 
Types of Digital Forensics in Action

Extracting crucial insights from web data can be the turnkey to solving investigations, but the extraction process can demand tedious efforts. Nevertheless, it is critical to reveal and discover links between threat actors, identity locations and generate complete reports on the criminal investigation.

Crime prediction software grants law enforcement agencies the power of artificial intelligence (AI) technology to effectively manage uncertainty and new challenges with advanced digital forensics.

Investigation software can assist analysts in identifying threat actors while uncovering potential profiles entities and groups across the web using automated advanced search capabilities.

Users gain deep insights and substantial intelligence, including locations, context, internal relations, group structures, hierarchies, and more. In addition, non-intrusive cyber forensics tool technology has advanced rapidly to help reveal threat actors and collect real-time intelligence for fast and expedited results.

Cyber monitoring tools have begun to be used to identify potential threats such as school shooters and terrorists, using both readily available public data.

Data-driven media monitoring services can also provide critical insights to authorities to monitor, track and analyze online activity on all levels of the internet, including the deep and dark web, to discover new data sources and optimize investigations.

Advanced web intelligence tools can also aid public security entities in attaining unmatched situational awareness by incorporating endless sources into an all-in-one platform. For example, revolutionary search engine tools can scan the web, analyze vast data for deep intelligence insights, leverage and enforce public security by acquiring everything from photos to videos and text content, and take organizational problem-solving processes to the next level.

These types of digital forensics can collect mass unstructured open-source intelligence and turn it into structured with a click of a button, allowing customizable analysis tools and uncover networks between individual sentities, groups, and topics by exposing hidden networks using automated algorithms.

Analysts can now strike back in their investigations against drug and human trafficking, online gangs, internet fraud, cyber crime, and illegal hacking and harvesting activities.

 All these digital forensic tools can now across all the corners of the web and collect every piece of potential data, allowing investigators and analysts a cutting edge against a threat actor and keeping pace and predicting their plans.