Digital Investigations and Forensics

OpenText Forensic (EnCase)

Close cases quickly with digital forensic investigation results you can trust

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Overview

Solving digital forensic investigation challenges

OpenText™ Forensic (EnCase) finds digital evidence no matter where it hides to help law enforcement and government agencies reduce case backlogs, close cases faster and improve public safety. For more than 20 years, investigators, attorneys and judges around the world have depended on OpenText Forensic as the pioneer in digital forensic software to deliver reliable investigation results.

How OpenText Forensic can benefit business

  • Boost productivity

    Preview results as data is acquired and search and analyze multiple drives or media simultaneously.

  • Improve public safety

    Leverage simplified evidence collection, analysis and reporting to close cases faster, improve public safety and enhance citizen trust.

  • Rapidly acquire data from many sources

    Find and capture evidence on a Windows, Mac or Linux device, on one of more than 35,000 supported mobile device profiles or in a cloud application.

  • Maximize valuable resources

    Quickly collect and process evidence, manage multiple evidence types within a single case and produce intuitive reports to reduce the strain on limited resources.

  • Get a clear picture of investigative findings

    Utilize pre-defined or easily customized report templates that deliver the appropriate detail for a comprehensive view of investigation findings.

Why OpenText Forensic?

  • Unmatched performance

    Rely on the ability to process evidence up to 75 percent faster than competing products, demonstrated in investigator lab testing using real-world evidence files.

  • Court-accepted evidence format

    Trust the evidence file formats and digital forensic evidence integrity accepted as the proven standard by court systems around the world.

  • Superior efficiency

    Extend the power of EnCase with a complete API that enables the automation of common investigator tasks and improves analyst efficiency.

  • In-depth evidence investigation

    Have confidence in investigative results with a solution that conducts disk-level analysis and parses and reconstructs data to ensure its accuracy.

Key features

  • Comprehensive artifact support

    Collects both local device and cloud-based activity from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, iCloud, WhatsApp and LinkedIn, as well as internet browser history, videos, documents and location data to ensure all relevant evidence is highlighted.

  • Extensive device support

    Provides comprehensive investigative capabilities for Mac devices, including APFS, HFS+ and FileVault 2 decryption support, as well as Windows and Linux-based devices.

  • AI and ML support

    Automatically identifies images of particular interest, including nudity, drugs, weapons and explicit sexual content using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

  • Optical character recognition

    Extracts text evidence buried in PDFs, images and scanned documents to include as critical evidence.

  • AFF4 evidence support

    Leverages an open standard evidence file format to ingest other evidence file formats to enable a more comprehensive conclusion.

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How to buy

OpenText Forensic

Allows investigators to identify the most important pieces of evidence, prioritize those pieces, process them and analyze data for evidence of wrong doing.

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Enables investigators to locate evidence on an ever-increasing variety of devices and locations within those devices.

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Improves the efficiency and effectiveness of overburdened investigation teams to help them get to the truth faster.

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Deployment

OpenText offers a flexible deployment option for OpenText Forensic.

  • Extend your team
    Off Cloud, on-premises software, managed by your organization or OpenText

Professional Services

OpenText Professional Services combines end-to-end solution implementation with comprehensive technology services to help improve systems.

Partners

OpenText helps customers find the right solution, the right support, and the right outcome.

Training

OpenText Learning Services offers comprehensive enablement and learning programs to accelerate knowledge and skills.

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Premium Support

Optimize the value of your OpenText solution with dedicated experts who provide mission-critical support for your complex IT environment.

OpenText Forensic resources

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DataExpert relies on OpenText for digital investigation solutions

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Transforming digital forensic investigations

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Transforming digital forensic investigations

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What’s new in OpenText EnCase Forensic v22.3

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