How Cloud-Based Forensics Can Ignite Law Enforcement Collaboration and Accelerate the Investigative Process

CyanLine’s cutting-edge FDAS grants law enforcement agencies worldwide the chance to collaborate and solve crimes sooner using cloud-based forensic technology

Two heads are better than one.

The whole of a sum of parts is better than each individual part working alone.

Now lets apply these simple concepts of synergy to the law enforcement sector. If law enforcement officers, specifically forensic investigators, had the uncanny ability to collaborate on their investigations instantly, although each residing in a remote location, its likely that crimes could be solved faster than technology could have allowed before.

Law officers know that time is of the essence in any investigation. Now, CyanLine, a New Jersey-based company committed to the prevention, detection and investigation of cybercrimes, announced that its groundbreaking Fast Disk Acquisition System, better known as FDAS, now enables cloud-based forensics.

So, what does this jargon mean?

1. Cloud-based forensics fosters collaboration.

FDAS’ cloud model allows forensic images to be copied directly to a SANS from the field, eliminating the need to handle, manage and store physical drives. Typically, police departments face the heavy burden of having to copy images to media at the request of an attorney from both sides. However, leveraging this exclusive, secure cloud network, collaboration among investigators and attorneys is now possible – and in real time.

According to Ask.com, collaboration triggers critical thinking. By ‘bouncing’ ideas off one another, investigators have a higher likelihood of finding the missing piece to the suspicious puzzle.  

2. Cloud-based forensics accelerates the investigative process

FDAS was specially designed to rapidly image disks by using RAID disks inside a secured unit. With unmatched speeds, as demonstrated in a recent faceoff against Tableau’s popular TD2 forensic imaging system, CyanLine’s FDAS promises to deliver high-quality, forensically sound images in due time.

Taking cloud-based forensics a step further, CyanLine’s latest gadget gives analysts the power to remotely review the image on FDAS, or the image can be duplicated from the source drive directly onto a SANS via FDAS and bypass its internal storage.

Before the release of FDAS, investigators had to embark on a gruesomely slow collection process – having to pause the device and plug in the drive to a different computer, just to see if its even collecting the correct data. The process took hours, countless cords and bundles of equipment.

CyanLine has eliminated the cords, computers and disks. FDAS is a one-stop box filled with forensic investigators imaging needs. It is now linked to a secured cloud network, so investigators can analyze data and collaborate with other agents and attorneys with the login credentials to solve crimes faster.

Investigators seeking proven equipment that delivers a full, forensically sound image with cutting-edge cloud-based technology need not look any further. CyanLine’s FDAS has arrived.

For more information about this pioneering capability, visit, http://www.CyanLine.com.

About Cyanline

Based in New Jersey, CyanLine specializes in the prevention, detection and investigation of cyber crimes. Serving both victims of high-tech cyber crime, providing services in both a professional and confidential manner that is client-focused and results-driven. Designed with state-of-the-art technology, CyanLine’s products work to deliver quality, reliable results.

Forensic scientist and licensed private investigator, Steven Branigan, CEO, has made it his mission to create forensically sound products to advance the investigative industry. Renowned speaker and instructor, Branigan is an active member in the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA), Federal Bureau Investigation’s Infragard, New Jersey License Private Investigators Association, and on the Digital Forensics Certification Board. Branigan is the author of High Tech Crimes Revealed and recently published an article in the Journal of Forensic Sciences. Branigan has received awards from the U.S. Secret Service and New Jersey State Police.