Document and Media Exploitation (DOMEX)

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1 SOLUTION BRIEF: DOCUMENT AND MEDIA EXPLOITATION (DOMEX) Document and Media Exploitation (DOMEX) Who should read this paper DOMEX analysts looking to quickly prioritize, organize, and analyze significant amounts of seized documentary and electronic evidence.

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3 Content The Challenge: Rapidly Extracting Actionable Intelligence from Time-Sensitive Documents and Media Obtained in Combat Operations The Solution: Symantec ediscovery Platform, powered by Clearwell

4 The Challenge: Rapidly Extracting Actionable Intelligence from Time-Sensitive Documents and Media Obtained in Combat Operations Intelligence analysts are under increasing pressure to quickly deliver insights from documents and electronic media seized during military engagements. The documents under investigation can be in multiple formats and languages which compounds the challenge of indexing data in order to begin meaningful analysis. Since the value of captured intelligence decreases over time it is imperative that once indexed, documents must be rapidly assessed for their tactical and strategic intelligence value. Defense and intelligence organizations have struggled with manual processes and a lack of resources to analyze documents of unknown content reducing efficiency and increasing the risk of missing key data. Exploiting information contained in these documents can be especially difficult due to the large volume of data being analyzed, the limited number of qualified linguists to conduct manual translation, and the time-sensitive nature of intelligence information. Finally, actionable conclusions from analysis must be presented in an easily understandable format so that they can be communicated to the broader intelligence community. The Solution: Symantec ediscovery Platform, powered by Clearwell The Benefits: Analysts at defense and intelligence organizations have realized immediate and significant results using the Symantec ediscovery Platform DOMEX Solution. Users are able to: Find time-sensitive clues and information quickly in the field. Automatically visualize and analyze gigabytes of data almost instantly. Optimize resources more effectively to focus on finding items with high-value intelligence. Deliver actionable intelligence to the field and the intelligence community. The Symantec ediscovery Platform Document and Media Exploitation Solution (DOMEX) delivers powerful indexing and analysis capabilities that rapidly discover and categorize vast amounts of documents in many formats and languages. The ediscovery Platform enables defense and intelligence organizations to accelerate their ability to index, organize, analyze, and find the relevant data for intelligence and homeland defense. Key benefits of the Document and Media Exploitation Solution include: Analyze Documents and Electronic Media in Minutes: The ediscovery Platform can be operational in less than 25 minutes, allowing intelligence analysts to immediately understand the context of the documents across the entire collection. With this solution, users can index and analyze almost all electronic file formats and it is capable of extracting OCR text from scanned documents. The solution is flexible enough to be deployed in the field on a ruggedized laptop and scales to analyze millions of documents when deployed by defense and intelligence organizations. 1

5 Pre-Indexing Analytics: Graphically depict data volume, file types, and time frames of collected data prior to indexing. Examine and Analyze Data before Indexing: The ediscovery Platform provides pre-indexing capabilities that rapidly scan and analyze large sets of documents, allowing analysts to understand the document collection and make informed culling decisions. Users can filter documents using automatically generated filters including file type, target, date, and known system files to exclude irrelevant documents before indexing. As a result, document indexing is expedited and analysts can focus on documents with possible intelligence value. Enable Searching of Scanned Documents: This Document and Media Exploitation Solution delivers optical character recognition capability to convert scanned documents, or even images embedded in paper or electronic documents, to searchable text. Users have the ability to search for documents and view them either in text format or the original format using the integrated native viewer without opening each application on the desktop. An inventory log of capturing unit, location, dates, and description can be associated with each scanned item. Language Filters: Easily identify data sets by language using automatically generated language filters. 2

6 Classify Documents by Language for Rapid Review and Translation: In addition to English, the ediscovery Platform supports Unicode and indexes, searches, and analyzes Western European, Eastern European, and Asian languages. It also delivers automatic language identification of documents and exact document counts by language to apply analysis and translation resources to items most likely to contain important clues and information. As a result, intelligence analysts can exploit information while it is still fresh and actionable. Automate Document and Media Analysis: The platform s analytics capabilities deliver powerful tools that organize documents for rapid analysis. Analysts can view messages in a discussion thread format that provides unprecedented visibility into the entire conversation in context. Moreover, the ediscovery Platform automatically extracts topics from the collected documents and enables navigation by these topic clusters reducing the time needed to discover meaningful relationships and intelligence. Once a target has been identified, analysts can quickly view all documents associated with a target across the entire document collection. Maximum Search Flexibility to Find Critical Information: With this solution, intelligence analysts are able to search for specific phrases, threats, dates, locations, events, tags, and comments. The ediscovery Platform provides the flexibility to include text variations such as plurals and alternative verb forms in search results, and also provides exact matching via literal search. Power users can leverage advanced features such as wildcard, fuzzy, proximity, and Boolean searches. Increase Analyst Productivity: The solution s rapid tagging capabilities allow intelligence analysts to easily categorize, prioritize, and manage all s, discussions, attachments, and documents. Intelligence analysis teams can apply status codes, critical notes, and assign documents and media for review to any member of the analyst team. In addition, with secure, role-based access teams are able to lock down analysts to specific evidence associated with a particular investigation or set of investigations. 3

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8 About Symantec Symantec protects the world s information, and is a global leader in security, backup, and availability solutions. Our innovative products and services protect people and information in any environment from the smallest mobile device, to the enterprise data center, to cloud-based systems. Our worldrenowned expertise in protecting data, identities, and interactions gives our customers confidence in a connected world. More information is available at or by connecting with Symantec at go.symantec.com/socialmedia. For specific country offices and contact numbers, please visit our website. Symantec World Headquarters 350 Ellis St. Mountain View, CA USA +1 (650) (800) Copyright 2013 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. Symantec, the Symantec Logo, the Checkmark Logo and Clearwell are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. 11/