The Internet. Social media. Chat rooms. The applications consumers use to navigate and manage their daily lives are also tools used as exploitation methods for bad guys.
ISIS is turning to Twitter to recruit others to its terrorist organization. Pedophiles use chat rooms and Facebook to lure innocent children to meet them or send them pictures. Cyber attackers are using phishing schemes to send emails to steal a person’s banking information. An employee uploads confidential corporate information to Dropbox and walks out the door.
Someone has to stop them. Someone has to help the law enforcement professionals responsible for our public safety, win the day.
Magnet Forensics is a technology company founded in 2011 by former Waterloo Regional Police Officer Jad Saliba. A specialist in digital forensic crime with a background in computer programming, Saliba began developing tools back in 2009 to help he and his fellow police officers uncover the invisible digital fingerprints criminals leave behind when they use technology to commit a crime.
“Almost every crime committed leaves behind some kind of digital evidence,” says Adam Belsher, CEO of Magnet Forensics. Adam, a former Blackberry executive, joined Jad in 2011 to help lead the company and craft its growth strategy. “Smartphones, a laptop computer, GPS technology in a car, a NEST thermostat—all of these devices leave behind digital traces of a person’s daily activities. Many of these devices are also connected to the Internet. So when a criminal uses technology—either directly or indirectly in the commission of a crime, all of that information is of investigative value.”
Magnet Forensics’s Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) helps law enforcement professionals find and recover evidence from hundreds of Internet, business computing and mobile artifacts; analyze the information to get to critical evidence fast; and present that information back in an understandable form for improved collaboration with colleagues or in a court of law. The company’s tools are now in use in more than 2,500 organizations in 93 countries around the world, and IEF has been instrumental in retrieving critical evidence required for convictions in some very profile criminal cases.
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