Using Web Intelligence for Criminal Investigations

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Using Web Intelligence for Criminal
Investigations

• Modern criminals around the world use the
  internet to plan and prepare their illegal
  activity, routinely having more than one account
  on various social media sites in order to keep
  their true activity hidden from law enforcement
  agencies.

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Using Web Intelligence for Criminal
Investigations

• While social media contains open-source
  intelligence which can provide invaluable
  insights into the views and activities of
  suspects, with the information spread out across
  a large number of platforms the collection and
  analysis of the right data is time-consuming and
  authorities are unlikely to prevent crimes from
  occurring.

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Using Web Intelligence for Criminal
Investigations
With one click, authorities using the online
investigation tools can easily expand a single
lead into a complete and efficient end-to-end
investigation.
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Using Web Intelligence for Criminal
Investigations

• By using advanced investigation tools and
  easy-to-use artificial intelligence web
  intelligence platforms like Cobwebs Technologies
  Tangles, which can scour all levels of the
  internet and the various social media platforms,
  authorities are able to obtain precise and
  unrivaled web intelligence in the open and dark
  web in a fraction of the time it used to take.
• While some of the posts on social media
  platforms might seem benign to the human
  eye, online investigation tools and media
  intelligence platforms like Tangles can provide
  valuable intelligence in identifying suspects and
  concrete threats.

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Using Web Intelligence for Criminal
Investigations

• The automated web intelligence capabilities
  allow authorities to locate suspects with limited
  public information as well as locate other
  individuals in the suspects online network.
  Online investigation tools can also carry out
  deep target profiling, extract the real
  identities of virtual personalities, and map
  group connections tied to the suspect.
• Using the latest media intelligence
  platforms with advanced artificial intelligence
  capabilities, Cobwebs Technologies Tangles
  platform can also search for information about
  possible crimes before they happen by monitoring
  for keywords in different languages, locations,
  or events and generating alerts to notify
  authorities of potential threats.
• With capabilities like Natural Language
  Processing (NLP), Tangles is also able to
  understand the meaning behind a suspects posts
  and perform sentiment analysis to map out the
  suspects feelings towards topics.
• Advanced web intelligence tools can also
  detect social changes in a suspects life.

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Using Web Intelligence for Criminal
Investigations

• With seamless integration of new data
  sources, the web intelligence platform is also
  used to provide threat intelligence with
  real-time content monitoring able to scan images,
  videos and texts which provide unmatched
  situational awareness.
• While some criminals might hide from law
  enforcement intelligence behind the dark webs
  technological veil of anonymity, the automated AI
  web intelligence and machine learning platform
  can also carry out face detection screening,
  detecting individual faces and attributes in
  images across the different layers of the web as
  well as generate alerts for faces that appear to
  be a match.
• Online investigation tools with capabilities
  which use advanced algorithms to identify and
  mitigate threats allow authorities to remain one
  step ahead of criminals who keep adapting in
  order to circumvent law enforcement agencies.