Digital forensic tools and techniques
CCL-Forensics is committed to staying at the forefront of the digital forensics industry. To achieve this, the company employs a number of full-time dedicated research and development analysts to devise and validate new forensically-sound tools and internal systems to ensure maximum productivity.
As technology continues to advance, the challenges facing digital forensic analysts become more and more complex. But here at CCL-Forensics, we believe that this offers a major opportunity in the world of digital evidence, as devices are capable of holding a much larger quantity of data. "Standard" forensic tools may not extract this data, but CCL-Forensics is constantly developing more and better forensic tools to enable its analysts to extract this potentially valuable evidence.
This page will be regularly updated with details of our R&D advancements, showcasing the tools and techniques we can use to extract more data from more devices in our secure forensic laboratories.
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YouTube video channel
We have produced a number of introductory videos to the tools and techniques developed by our in-house Research and Development department.
These tools and techniques are designed to maximise evidential opportunities, and extract more data from more devices. Please feel free to browse the videos in our Youtube channel below, and if you have any queries, please contact us on 01789 261200 or email info@ccl-forensics.com
FLARE - Mobile phone intelligence analysis tool
MAKE MORE SENSE OF MOBILE PHONE DATA
Mobile phones now contain so much evidence that traditional paper reports or extractions in fixed formats are unmanageable. FLARE from CCL-Forensics allows investigators to manipulate large volumes of data using a user-friendly, intuitive interface.
FLARE is provided FREE to law enforcement agencies along with every phone analysed by CCL-Forensics.
It allows investigators to:
- Spend more time investigating - rather than data processing
- Save time - as mobile phone evidence is examined in an intuitive computerised format, without having to sift through, sometimes thousands of, pages of printed data
- Work more smartly - as investigators can instantly search multiple exhibits for keywords or phone numbers
- Gain greater intelligence - because FLARE can help analyse commonalities between exhibits and associations between suspects
FLARE from CCL-Forensics is an intelligence analysis tool which allows data to be supplied to investigating officers in a searchable, easily digestible, manipulatable format.
Watch a YouTube video about FLARE here, or you can view it in our embedded player above.
Data from mobile phone examinations carried out at CCL-Forensics ISO17025 accredited laboratory is supplied in a format that can be viewed and manipulated in a graphical user interface which:
- Displays all events in a timeline
- Allows filtering by date, exhibit and data type
- Allows searching by key word and phone number
- Has a "frequency analysis" function which provides details of how many times a number is referenced on a particular device
- Has the functionality to add bookmarks and notes: entries in the timeline can be bookmarked and highlighted (colour chosen by user) and a note added to the entry
- Allows bookmarks to be saved and re-opened on the next session, multiple bookmark files can be imported into a single Flare session (one for each suspect, multiple investigators working on the same case, etc.)
- Can, where required, allow time adjustments to be temporarily assigned to exhibits in order to re-align them where the extracted timestamps are found to be inaccurate (eg. in light of call record data)
- Provides association analysis: indexes the phone numbers which appear on each exhibit and shows over-lap (and therefore known associations)
For more information about FLARE, or for a free online demonstration, please contact Mark Larson at CCL-Forensics on 01789 261200 or email flare@ccl-forensics.com
