tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81377974135762400282024-03-14T05:43:56.080-04:00CES PRISM BlogCES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-25128156978168466762014-01-22T11:20:00.001-05:002014-01-22T11:20:55.569-05:00Social Media Update: Facebook, Tumblr, and Vine<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently, social media sites
have been making changes to their platforms that are favorable to online researchers.
Facebook is making changes to the system which will make it easier to locate
users’ timelines. Tumblr has made it easier for users to tag one another and
search for tagged content. Also, <a href="http://vine.co/" target="_blank">Vine</a> has implemented a
web-based interface with user profiles. All of these changes will assist online
researchers in more efficiently gathering information on persons of interest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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users see when logging into Facebook<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">In December 2012, <a href="http://newsroom.fb.com/News/547/Better-Controls-for-Managing-Your-Content" target="_blank">Facebook announced</a> </span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">it was going to retire the “Who can look up my
timeline by name?” setting using a phase out approach. In October 2013,
<a href="http://newsroom.fb.com/News/735/Reminder-Finishing-the-Removal-of-an-Old-Search-Setting" target="_blank">Facebook reminded</a></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> the public that this change would be implemented
soon. This month, Facebook has ramped up their alerts about the change on both
the site and via email. However, they do not have a date for expected full
implementation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This change is very important
to follow for online research and analysis. Current restrictions often force us
to look at related parties’ Facebook accounts or scrape the link from another
site in order to locate individuals who have removed themselves from Graph
Search. Once this privacy setting is fully removed, investigations on Facebook
will be streamlined. We will be able to locate all users via the Graph Search
interface.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">On January 14, the Tumblr
staff added <a href="http://staff.tumblr.com/post/73343571003/are-you-always-mentioning-things-gross-stop" target="_blank">a post</a></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> telling users that they should start tagging other users
in their posts. Previously, users would communicate by using tags for topics. The
search functionality topics worked well, but the search functionality for other
blogs/users was limited. Tumblr has recently upgraded their search features to
include a user friendly interface and search filters. Now, researchers can
search for content related to the user of interest by taking advantage of the
usernames embedded in the post.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">On January 3, <a href="http://blog.vine.co/post/72113442134/vine-on-the-web" target="_blank">Vine announced</a>
</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">the addition of Vine on the Web. Previously, users
were restricted to finding content for Vine users on the mobile application or
by finding links to vines embedded in other social media sites. During the
creation of Vine on the Web, Vine added online profiles for each user. Profiles
list profile information and show the users’ vines and revines (reposts). These
profiles will now allow analysts to examine Vine content in one place instead
of piecing it together using <a href="http://cesprism.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-value-of-data-fusion.html" target="_blank">data fusion</a></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> techniques.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Social media is a dynamic
system and will never stop changing. Keeping up with these developments is
necessary to success in the long run. As investigators, our time is precious.
Even the smallest alterations to the social media landscape can present us with
new challenges, and this information is vital for us to fine tune our best
practices.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
CES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-7659357533694687862013-12-23T13:25:00.000-05:002013-12-23T13:25:31.697-05:00Issues Gathering Information Using Geo-location Parameters<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have been out at conferences recently, and there is a
major shift in the investigative world to harness the power of geo-location
data. This data can provide valuable insight into the whereabouts and patterns
of groups and individuals. It is also vital when gathering intelligence and
evidence about major events. However, there are many issues analysts must
consider when they are moving to a geo-location based system and conducting
location-based investigations and monitoring.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Privacy Settings and
Restrictions<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No matter how great a tool is, it cannot circumvent privacy
settings. These settings can be instituted at both the user and site level.
Ultimately, many of these privacy settings are implemented to protect users
from harm. These privacy settings may scrub geo-location data from posts and/or
restrict the flow of location-based information to real-time streams. Previously,
<a href="http://foursquare.com/" target="_blank">Foursquare</a> allowed
applications to pull user check-in data without permission. Within the last
year, Foursquare removed this feature and now requires users to first grant
permission to applications to pull check-in data. As social media sites and
applications make changes like these to protect the privacy of individuals, it
will become increasingly difficult to base searches and monitors on
geo-location data.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we discussed last week, <a href="http://cesprism.blogspot.com/2013/12/issues-investigating-savvy-social-media.html" target="_blank">savvy social media users</a> bring their own challenges to the table. These users can opt to remove
geo-location information from their content at a few different levels. First,
they can turn-off GPS tracking on their <a href="http://traveltips.usatoday.com/turn-off-gps-cell-phone-21147.html" target="_blank">phones’ settings</a> to prevent the device from acquiring their locations. Users can also opt to
<a href="http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/11712/" target="_blank">remove geotagging from their photos</a> which will prevent the data from being embedded in the photos’ EXIF data. Users
have another option to remove geo-location data from their posts at the
<a href="http://support.twitter.com/articles/118492-using-location-services-on-mobile-devices" target="_blank">application level</a>.
Any users who disable geo-location tagging will ultimately prevent locations
from being embedded in metadata, meaning the posts cannot be searched using
location-based means. In addition, users can enter false location data into
their profiles and posts, creating inaccurate geo-location data.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every social media site and geo-location tool defines areas
differently. One tool may use specific coordinates to map exact locations of
posts. Another may use geofencing to draw a specific area or radius around an
exact location. Both of these means are problematic. Depending on the quality
of the geo-location data collected from the device, users’ locations can often
be marked miles away from their exact location at the time of the post.
Sometimes the data about their location is collected from a user’s profile,
which means a person posting from St. Augustine, Florida who lives in New York
City may show up as making the post from New York City. </span></div>
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use of language. Some tools allow users to use words to describe their area of
interest. For instance, if we used New York City, that might encompass anything
within the areas of the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, or Manhattan.
However, some tools will only pick up New York City and will not recognize that
synonyms include NYC or Manhattan or that neighborhoods within New York City
include areas such as Harlem and the Lower East Side. These differences can
often exclude data points from your area of interest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Currently, there are many challenges investigators and
analysts face when parsing through geo-location data. Many of these issues
arise from technology. Until social media sites perfect the collection and
dissemination of geo-location data, all tools will be deficient in displaying
the information. Additionally, until developers code more comprehensive means
to categorize and disseminate geotagged data in tools, the information we can
extract from them will be limited. However, there are a few things we can do to
make our lives easier. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Foremost, we can use the language of the person or event or
topic of interest. For instance, if we are monitoring activity in a specific
neighborhood, we can use slang terms for the area, area codes, street names,
popular businesses in the area, and any other terms which may describe the
region. This can capture data which is not reliant upon geotagged metadata.
Another way to maximize the capture of geo-location data is to use a variety of
tools. Since every tool has issues collecting and displaying the applicable
geographic data, harnessing the power of a multitude of sources allows us to
build a more comprehensive data set to analyze.</span></div>
CES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-66173327522720350982013-12-12T14:09:00.000-05:002013-12-12T14:09:24.476-05:00Issues Investigating Savvy Social Media Users<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we <a href="http://cesprism.blogspot.com/2013/12/trends-in-social-media-rise-of-mobile.html" target="_blank">discussed last week</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,
some social media users strive to gain greater privacy with their
communications online. While some users have been protecting their online
communications for some time, there is currently a shift to a more private
online existence happening in some demographic groups, mainly with teens and
young adults. This can be seen in trends throughout Internet-based activity,
whether it is a switch to private browsing using <a href="https://www.torproject.org/" target="_blank">Tor</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, the increasing
usage of <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/31/net-us-mobile-apps-facebook-idUSBRE92U09C20130331" target="_blank">mobile messaging applications</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,
or backlashes against <a href="http://mashable.com/2013/10/24/europe-v-facebook-prism/" target="_blank">violations of privacy laws</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.
These savvy social media users can prove to be a challenge for online
researchers and analysts. By using privacy-centric platforms, privacy settings,
and fake or obscured identities, users can problematize online research of
their identities and patterns of behavior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In many cases, it can be almost impossible to locate a subject’s
information due to the sheer nature of the platform itself. Many mobile
applications do not have a corresponding website, browser accessible profiles,
or search-indexed content. Additionally, many of these apps do not push content
to other social media platforms, which restricts outside access to hidden
content. These apps often require users to be connected in order to access
information. For analysts, this would require us to use the application and
request a connection to the person of interest. As many investigations are done
without the knowledge of the subject, this can be highly problematic and may
cause the user to delete their information. When these situations arise, the
most complete information can only be obtained by accessing the device itself
or through the use of surreptitious techniques, such as shadow accounts and
device cloning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A major hurdle for all investigators is privacy settings. While
each social media site is different, in many cases, users can leverage four
types of settings to make locating their social media profiles and content more
difficult. First, whether by design of the social media platforms themselves or
user settings, many social media profiles are removed from search indexes. This
makes broad searches more difficult to execute and requires investigators to
dig deeper into each individual social media site. Second, some social media
sites allow users to remove themselves from the internal search feature and
from friend/connection lists unless the person searching for them is connected
to them. This means you either need to establish a connection with the
individual or find a static link on another location or social media site.
Additionally, users can restrict access to their profiles as a whole and the
content contained on it. Finally, users can also restrict how unconnected users
see their content posted throughout the rest of the social media site. All of
these privacy settings can increase the manual work necessary to locate
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To hide their online activities, a user may opt to either
obscure their real identity or create a fake persona. Obscured identities can
take many forms. Users can employ false names, nicknames, unique usernames, or
misleading profile information to hide their true identity. They can also
choose not to link social media profiles together and use photos which conceal
their faces and are not used on any other site. Users can also opt to use fake personas
online. By using a fake identity, many users can break the connection from
their real identities. In addition to some of the methods used to obscure their
identities, many of these users will create completely new identities that are
disconnected from their real social networks. Often, they will also use a
variety of other means (i.e. VPNs, proxies) to conceal their actual physical
location and network connection to prevent <a href="http://www.blogger.com/(http://www.technewsdaily.com/17590-what-is-doxing.html" target="_blank">doxing</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is important to always understand the limitations of
social media data and the challenges you will face during open source research.
Every social media site and application has its own limitations either through
design or the use of privacy settings by savvy social media users. Before you
dive into your online investigations, it is important to learn as much as
possible about your subject and take note of the issues you might face along
the way. Each piece of data will help you find potential obscured or fake
identities and better assess the corners of the Internet to explore to find
your person of interest.</span></div>
CES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-191193787984793832013-12-02T17:22:00.001-05:002013-12-02T17:22:51.459-05:00Trends in Social Media: The Rise of Mobile Messaging Apps<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the 1990s, social media was messaging based. Many people
interacted with one another in chat rooms and through instant messaging
services like <a href="http://www.aim.com/" target="_blank">AIM </a> and
<a href="http://www.icq.com/en" target="_blank">ICQ</a>. While
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoCities" target="_blank">Geocities</a> provided a place for people to build webpages, the extent of human interaction
was usually rooted in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guestbook" target="_blank">guestbooks</a>.
Just like fashion, it was only a matter of time before we found ourselves back
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once parents and grandparents started heading for Facebook
to keep up with their families, teens and young adults started scurrying to<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/teens-deserting-facebook-for-messaging-apps-2013-11" target="_blank"> new social media outlets</a>.
Many of these platforms are mobile messaging applications which exist solely on
handheld devices. Similar to instant and text messaging services, there are not
social media profiles that family members and prospective employers can easily
monitor from desktop and laptop computers. These sites provide safe havens for
teens and young adults from the watchful eyes of outsiders. Currently, there
are three major mobile messaging apps that dominate the field: Snapchat, Kik,
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and video messaging app that has become wildly popular amongst teens and young
adults due to its “disappearing” <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/26/snapchat-finds-its-niche-with-disappearing-messages/" target="_blank">messages</a>,
known as snaps. To create snaps, users manipulate photos and videos with built-in
tools and send them to an exclusive group of friends. Unlike other photo
sharing services like Instagram, where users have a profile and push content to
other social media sites, snaps exist within the app itself. Snaps are only retained
for a few seconds after being opened before they are removed from Snapchat’s
servers and users’ mobile devices. (While there are some ways to extract this
data using screenshots and forensic techniques, those methods are outside of
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://kik.com/" target="_blank">Kik</a> is a
mobile messaging service that incorporates group chat; photo, voice, and text
messaging; and content sharing. Because of its wide array of content sharing
options, most Kik users harness the power of Kik to replace traditional text
messaging. Unlike many social media applications that allow users to push
content to their other social media accounts, Kik only allows users to pull
content into Kik from other sites and applications, such as YouTube and
Twitter. This information is stored on mobile devices in a similar manner to
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.whatsapp.com/" target="_blank">WhatsApp</a> is a messaging app that works in a similar way to Kik. It allows users to have
group chats and share video, photo, text, and location information. Whatsapp
has become increasingly popular amongst mobile users, and some studies suggest
it has even passed Facebook messenger in <a href="http://ondeviceresearch.com/blog/messenger-wars-how-facebook-lost-its-lead" target="_blank">popularity</a>.
Just like Kik, the information resides in the application itself on a user’s
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the major issues arising out of the shift to mobile
messaging technology is child safety. As teenagers have fled <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/10/teenagers-messenger-apps-facebook-exodus" target="_blank">Facebook</a>,
parents have become less able to monitor their children’s behavior. This has
led to new avenues for <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/10/living/parents-new-apps-bullying/" target="_blank">cyber bullying</a>,
spreading<a href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/snapchat-child-porn-problem/" target="_blank"> child pornography</a>,
and initiating connections that lead to <a href="http://www.wavy.com/news/crime/man-accused-of-raping-girl-he-met-on-kik" target="_blank">sexual assault</a>.
It also proves a significant challenge for<a href="http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/nbc33/news/Police-Issue-Warning-About-Child-Predators-Using-Kik-App-220665461.html" target="_blank"> law enforcement</a>,
as they have a difficult time tracking activity on these applications.</span></div>
CES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-71067596388817309062013-11-21T10:45:00.000-05:002013-11-21T11:00:48.287-05:00Social Media Platforms 101: Twitter<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While Facebook may be the <a href="http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social-networking-websites" target="_blank">most popular social media site</a>,
Twitter is perhaps the most prolific social media site in the world. Content
from Twitter is constantly <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/09/16/angry-racists-react-to-new-miss-america/" target="_blank">quoted in news articles</a>,
has <a href="http://www.washington.edu/news/2011/09/12/new-study-quantifies-use-of-social-media-in-arab-spring/" target="_blank">had a hand in the Arab Spring</a> and other political demonstrations, and is <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2475591/Twitter-overtakes-Facebook-popular-social-network-teens-according-study.html" target="_blank">growing in popularity amongst teens</a> and other heavy users of mobile technology. In many ways, Twitter is one of the
most important social media sites to peruse during the course of online
research and investigations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twitter is a microblogging site which allows users to tweet
text and links to pictures, videos, and other content in 140 characters or
less. Each user’s Twitter experience is customizable, as they select to follow
only the users that are of interest to them. The tweets from the followed users
appear on the Twitter homepage. Additionally, each user has a Twitter profile
in which users can see the user’s last 3200 tweets, followers, followings, and
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another important feature of Twitter is the hashtag. The
hashtag was <a href="http://socialmediatoday.com/irfan-ahmad/1897096/history-hashtags-infographic" target="_blank">first used on Twitter</a> by users to communicate with one another about a specific topic and is now used
on a variety of other social media sites. By clicking on a hashtag, users can execute
a real-time search across Twitter to find tweets containing the same hashtag. That
search can be sorted by top tweets, all tweets, or tweets from known users. It
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twitter allows researchers and analysts to gather a wealth
of information about any individual or topic of interest. More than half of all
Twitter users leverage the site to <a href="http://www.journalism.org/2013/11/14/news-use-across-social-media-platforms/" target="_blank">access news coverage</a>.
Similarly, many users post live coverage of events occurring around them, and
Twitter is testing a <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/twitter-tests-breaking-news-alerts-after-pittsburgh-shooting" target="_blank">breaking news feature</a> which allows them to alert users of breaking news in their area. By utilizing
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The amount of information Twitter contains about any given
user is astonishing. Using advanced search techniques, you can read every tweet
made by an individual user. These tweets can contain information regarding a
person’s habits, interests, general disposition, social networks, and
locations. Additionally, with the amount of social media applications that push
content to Twitter, it makes it easy to quickly identify other social media
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How to leverage information from Twitter is entirely
dependent upon the needs of your research or investigation. If you are
monitoring topics or events using Twitter, you can use a variety of free and
paid tools to identify and capture Tweets using keyword or location-based
searches. Many of these tools have alert features built in which will tell you
when there are new posts about your topic or area of interest. Similarly, you
can also use free or paid tools to monitor and capture individual user’s
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ultimately, Twitter is an excellent starting point for any
investigation. You can do broad based topic research to identify language patterns
and influencers of topics and events of interest. Once you identify your users
of interest, you can map out their social networks and movements to establish
patterns of behavior and identify even more sources of information. In the
future, we will be giving more in-depth tips on how to conduct these
investigations in another social media platforms series.</span></div>
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CES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-10261815157070277412013-10-30T15:40:00.000-04:002013-10-30T15:40:06.414-04:00Developing PRISM: V2 is Here<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For the past few weeks,
the PRISM team has been diligently working to test the new version of PRISM. We
are proud to announce that, after months of development, we have finally
released PRISM V2. As we discussed in <a href="http://cesprism.blogspot.com/2013/05/developing-prism-journey-from-concept.html" target="_blank">an earlier post</a>, Version 1 was originally developed
for internal users. In order to test our features and gain valuable feedback
from external users, we launched a Pilot Program with select law enforcement
agencies across the US. They found bugs, identified workflow issues, gave
valuable critiques, and made feature wish lists, which allowed us to greatly
approve upon PRISM in V2. Here are some of the big changes to the tool.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Faster
Workflow</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As analysts and
investigators, we need to be able to more efficiently work throughout a
project. Previously, it was cumbersome to search for usernames, scrape data,
and build out user profiles. Our analysts and Pilot Program users identified
ways to expedite these processes. PRISM now has additional buttons to add
profiles, add usernames, edit projects, and upload documents directly from the
workbench. This allows users to spend less time clicking between areas of the
tool and more time reviewing content.</span>
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Exporting & Authentication</span></b>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Before, PRISM only
exported data into Microsoft Word formatted Rich Text (.rtf), Microsoft Excel
XML format spreadsheet (.xlsx), and Comma-separated Value Plain Text (.csv)
formats. As many of our users have additional needs, we expanded this selection
to include Microsoft Access database (.accdb) and Adobe Portable Document
Format (.pdf) files. All of these files include the MD5 hash values associated
with each individual result for authentication purposes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In addition, users can
now download individual search results and native files to their computer in
.pdf and Flash Video (.flv) formats. When these files are downloaded, a record
of each download is created in an uneditable system log. This log can then be
exported into .pdf format and will include information such as the hash value
for the content downloaded and which specific result it came from. We added
this feature to assist law enforcement agencies with evidence gathering and
authentication.</span> <br />
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Monitoring<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Previously, PRISM was designed
as a case management system for individual profiles and groups of individuals.
Over the course of testing, we discovered that both our analysts and Pilot
Program users desired the ability to search in real-time across social media
sites to find information about topics pertinent to their projects. In
response, we built a topic monitor. Users now have the ability to search
real-time content originating from Facebook, Google Plus, Instagram, Reddit,
Twitter, and YouTube. All of these results can be highlighted to showcase
important words, filtered down by word exclusion, and saved both within PRISM
and locally on the user’s device.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Subscribing
to PRISM<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Now that PRISM V2 is
released, subscriptions are available to all organizations. To learn more about
PRISM or to get a demonstration, contact Blake Haase at blake.haase@cesnb.com.</span>
CES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-60708945313173718412013-10-02T10:34:00.000-04:002013-10-02T10:34:08.233-04:003 Key Takeaways from the SMILE Conference
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fall, so it must be conference season. From September through October, members
of the PRISM team will be in various locations across the country. Last week,
three members of the PRISM team were in Omaha for the <a href="http://smileconference.com/" target="_blank">SMILE Conference</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. As we have a great
relationship with law enforcement agencies, we thought it was pertinent to
share some of the major takeaways from <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23smilecon&src=tyah&f=realtime" target="_blank">#smilecon</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Using Social Media<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For
those of you who are not familiar with SMILE, it is a conference at which law
enforcement agencies network with one another and share best practices
regarding the use of social media in law enforcement, from both a marketing and
investigative perspective. It allows these agencies to learn new, innovative
ways to harness the power of social media to build relationships with the
community and combat crime. Throughout the conference, many speakers discussed
how their agencies are successfully using social media to keep tabs on known
offenders, curtail gang activity, monitor events, respond to disasters, and
conduct undercover investigations. <a href="http://smileconference.com/speaker-lineup/officer-eric-draeger/" target="_blank">Officer Eric Draeger</a>
of the Milwaukee Police Department spoke about his department’s success doing a
multitude of those things at once: They successfully use social media to
disrupt gang activity and prevent incidents from occurring at large public
gatherings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As we
wrote about from our experience at the <a href="http://cesprism.blogspot.com/#!/2013/09/3-key-takeaways-from-2013-i2-user.html" target="_blank">i2 User Conference</a></span>, <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">agencies are
integrating a variety of data sources into their process. With the proliferation
of social media activity, law enforcement agencies now understand the
fundamental need to incorporate social media data into their day-to-day
operations. Social media records are now combined with traditional
investigative data to conduct more thorough investigations. At SMILE, many
agencies reported impressive results using social media information in their
investigative processes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
order to conduct social media monitoring and investigations, law enforcement
agencies need tools. Nearly every presenter at SMILE was using some form of
tool to assist them with the investigative process. The amount of readily
available social media data is unfathomable and can be extremely overwhelming.
Investigators and analysts must rely on tools to assist them with harvesting,
processing, and analyzing social media data. Otherwise, they would be inundated
with records and have difficulty making timely analyses. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Every
time we go to a conference, we learn something new that allows us to improve
our products and services for our clients. SMILE was no exception. We have been
following trends of the use of social media, embracement of data fusion, and
need for social media tools in law enforcement for some time now. It is one of
the main reasons we developed PRISM. Both the i2 User Conference and SMILE
reinforced our use of social media, data fusion, and PRISM in our investigative
process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
CES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-64080661427728446252013-09-29T09:58:00.002-04:002013-09-29T09:58:48.926-04:00Building a Better Tool Chest: Browser Apps & Extensions<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As an
organization aiming to use the best tools possible, many of our analysts rely
on the power of <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/" target="_blank">Google Chrome</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. Chrome is
developer friendly and has a wide variety of free apps and extensions available
for use in the <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps" target="_blank">Chrome Web Store</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">, which allows us to
increase performance even on the browser level. In order to increase
efficiency, we rely heavily on tools to block ads, quickly screen images, and
capture screenshots. Here are three tools that can help increase the
performance of your workflow during online investigations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">One of
the major things we have to worry about in the Internet advertising era is the
browser slowdown that occurs from ads. <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-plus/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb" target="_blank">Adblock Plus</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> is one of the best
adblockers out there. It blocks ads on sites such as Google, Facebook, and
YouTube. Instead of wasting time sitting through videos and waiting for pages
to load, you can quickly and easily navigate the Internet using Adblock. It is
important to note that in order to block all ads, you have to set your options
in Adblock Plus by unchecking the box for “Allow some non-intrusive advertising.”
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because of its ability to save time. Traditionally, whenever photos appear on
websites, you have to click into them to see a larger version of the photo.
Hover Zoom skips this step in the workflow process. Once you hover over the
photo with your cursor, a larger view of the image will appear. This tool is
perfect for going through large batches of images on photo and social media
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We used
to be ardent <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/awesome-screenshot-captur/alelhddbbhepgpmgidjdcjakblofbmce" target="_blank">Awesome Screenshot</a> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">users, but lately
it has only worked sporadically. Recently, we discovered <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lightshot-screenshot-tool/mbniclmhobmnbdlbpiphghaielnnpgdp" target="_blank">Lightshot</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> as a viable
alternative. Lightshot is user friendly and has great features built in for
photo editing and exporting, as well as searching for similar images on Google.
So far, it is proving to be the best alternative to our old standby. (Lightshot
is available for a variety of operating systems and browsers.)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This
list is in no way inclusive of all of the tools that can save you time during
online research. In the past, <a href="http://cesprism.blogspot.com/2013/06/building-your-tool-chest-image-tools.html" target="_blank">we wrote about the Chrome extension Image Tools</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> and its ability to
assist with image searching and examining exif data. There are a variety of
other extensions for Chrome that can assist you with first-language
translation, secure browsing, cache clearing, rss reading, and more. Add-ons
are not exclusive to Chrome. You can often find similar tools on Firefox and
Internet Explorer. No matter which browser you use, you can help ensure you are
working efficiently just by building out a better browser.</span></div>
</span>CES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-90432082301107530412013-09-21T15:01:00.000-04:002013-09-21T15:01:16.359-04:00Social Media Platforms 101: Reddit<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://cesprism.blogspot.com/2013/09/3-key-takeaways-from-2013-i2-user.html" target="_blank">At the i2 User Conference</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">we
realized that people have started gaining a better appreciation for
comprehensive societal knowledge. There is no website in the United States that
can provide domestic cultural knowledge on a greater level than <a href="http://reddit.com/" target="_blank">reddit</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div>
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matter who or what the subject is at hand, you can learn more about it. Often,
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This week, two of our analysts attended the <a href="https://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/i2uc/i2uc13.nsf/Welcome.xsp" target="_blank">2013 i2 User Conference</a></span><a href="https://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/i2uc/i2uc13.nsf/Welcome.xsp"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. We
were able to network with and attend sessions led by individuals working in the
law enforcement, intelligence, and financial communities in the United States
and Canada. Although many of us work in seemingly different fields, many of us
concluded that we were ultimately doing similar tasks and face similar issues.
At the end of the conference, there were three major takeaways that can relate
to any investigator or analyst, regardless of their industry or what tools they
use.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Data Silos are the Past and
Fusion Centers are the Future</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The key issue discussed by almost every speaker and attendee was the difficulty
we all face gaining access to and sharing information across departments and
agencies. One problem almost every agency reported was having too many data
silos housing their information. Multiple storage locations fragment the information
in such a way that individuals can be consumed by looking through disparate
sources for data, even in their own agency. It also impedes the flow of
information between both coworkers and partner organizations. This problem was stressed
by multiple law enforcement agencies during their presentations, especially in
the case of the Boston Marathon Bombing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Now, these agencies are working together to tear down the walls between organizations
to adapt a fusion center model. The <a href="http://cms3.tucsonaz.gov/police" target="_blank">Tucson Police Department</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">,
<a href="http://www.mass.gov/eopss/agencies/msp/" target="_blank">Massachusetts State Police</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, and
the <a href="http://www.miamidade.gov/police/home.asp" target="_blank">Miami-Dade Police Department</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">have
all reported they are working on initiatives to bring together interagency data
sources to assist with investigations and prevent agencies from stepping on one
another’s toes. Similar collaborations are happening in the financial industry
in Canada through the <a href="http://www.cba.ca/en" target="_blank">Canadian Banker’s Association</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. It is
becoming imperative that agencies share information to be effective in their
day-to-day intelligence and investigative endeavors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Multiple speakers discussed the need for us all as investigators,
analysts, researchers, and intelligence operatives to understand the world
around us. It is extremely important to understand the world around you from
culture to events to societal changes. <a href="http://www-304.ibm.com/industries/publicsector/fileserve?contentid=249414" target="_blank">Dr. Steve Chan</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> really
drove the point home that nothing we examine exists in a vacuum, and in order
to fully understand the issue at hand, we have to educate ourselves about the
larger picture as a whole, including historical and present context. To be truly
effective, we must keep up with items such as current events, changes in
society, trends, new technology, and pop culture. In addition, we also need to
ensure we are constantly engaging coworkers and individuals from other agencies
to share information.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Social Media is Paramount</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It was evident from the start of the i2 Conference that social media was
going to take the main stage. Most of the sessions at this conference touched
on the importance of social media, and the sessions specifically regarding
social media were standing room only. Social media is now becoming widely
regarded for its ability to give analysts and investigators new leads in cases
when all internal data and public records information have been exhausted. It
also is a fantastic resource for network building because we can identify
underlying connections that may have been missed through other investigative
means. However, there are still some issues with data normalization and legal
admission of social media evidence. People are now looking for new ways to
better extract, analyze, authenticate, and fuse data from the social media
goldmine. As researchers, it is imperative that we stay abreast of all of the
changes in the social media landscape.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Conclusion</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For us, the i2 User Conference was a success. We were able to learn from
individuals in related industries about the challenges they face and how they
are working to conquer them. One of the only ways we can learn is to work
together to create new, innovative solutions to the issues that plague our
organizations.</span></div>
CES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-87239838480949771362013-09-04T10:47:00.000-04:002013-09-04T10:47:02.192-04:00Social Media Platforms 101: LinkedIn
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">One of
the first things people ask during PRISM training sessions is “how does that
social media site help me accomplish [my goal]?” Often, we spend more time
during our training sessions covering the usefulness of social media sites
rather than talking about how to use the tool itself. We decided it was time to
launch a little series called Social Media Platforms 101. It is designed to
help our readers understand the basic construct of the platform itself, the information
you can gather from different social media platforms, and how that information
can be used.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As
we’ve been focusing on employment issues recently, we thought it was pertinent
to begin with <a href="http://linkedin.com/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What is LinkedIn?</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">LinkedIn
is a professional networking site. It allows users to create profiles that
showcase their current and past work experience, educational background, and
skills that they may have. Users can also connect with individuals and join
groups based upon their industries, interests, and affiliations. This allows
LinkedIn members to network with one another to find new business and job
opportunities. Currently, the main users of LinkedIn are professionals looking
for new job opportunities, employers and recruiters looking to hire new talent,
and managers and executives searching for new business ventures and partners.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">One
important thing to note about LinkedIn is that privacy settings can be very
stringent. While many people leave their profiles open to attract more traffic,
it can be difficult to glean information from a profile without being connected
to the individual. However, you can still often access information by being
connected to a user who is connected to the individual of interest. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What Can You Learn From LinkedIn?</span></b><br />
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order to demonstrate how you can pull information off of LinkedIn, our Legal
Counsel, Blake Haase, volunteered <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/blake-haase/34/731/908" target="_blank">his LinkedIn profile</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When
you look at Mr. Haase’s page, you can see a brief overview of his work
experience and the number of connections he has made on LinkedIn. If you scroll
down a little further you will notice he has listed out some of his job duties
and a few projects he has worked on during his professional career. In
addition, you will find information about the degrees he earned, his listed
skills, and the groups he belongs to. Cumulatively, this page paints a basic
profile of Mr. Haase’s job experience and qualifications.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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addition, if you are logged in to an account and are connected to the
individual, you can access a connection chart that will show your commonalities
with the person of interest.</span></div>
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major use of LinkedIn is obviously employment related. Whether you are an
employer vetting out applicants or a firm conducting background checks on
behalf of another organization, LinkedIn’s strongest usage is in constructing
educational and professional profiles. This information can be used to corroborate
or find inconsistencies in information provided by prospective employees on
resumes and applications, and it can provide additional information about the
individual’s past history that was omitted from their resume. However, it can
also be used for basic investigative purposes: constructing timelines, building
connections, learning interests and skills, and gaining more general insight
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social media sites are created equally. Each one has its own unique set of data
and serves a different set of purposes. As technology evolves, the usage of and
the information found on each site will evolve along with it. It is up to us as
investigators and analysts to keep abreast of these trends and provide the best
services possible.</span></div>
CES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-58236242311995707882013-08-28T09:00:00.000-04:002013-08-28T09:00:11.778-04:00Tips & Tricks: Three Simple Ways to Keep Up With Social Media Trends
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A few weeks ago, we wrote
about <a href="http://cesprism.blogspot.com/2013/07/tips-tricks-three-easy-ways-to-maximize.html" target="_blank">maximizing your training experience</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">. Part of that discussion covered the need for
individuals to look for free sources of information. When you are looking to
expand or narrow the scope of your open source Internet-based intelligence and
investigations solutions, there are three main open sources you can use to help
you make those decisions: social media content, blogs and news sources, and
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become an integral part of online research, it becomes increasingly important
to stay abreast of social media trends. One quick way to identify new sources
of information is to look in content feeds. Many social media sites and
applications connect with one another to push and pull data. As an example, we
can use a Twitter feed. On Twitter, many people push Facebook, Foursquare,
Instagram, Tumblr, and Vine posts into their Twitter feeds. By watching these
sources of information, you can easily identify new social media sites to
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Often, blog and news-based
content are some of the first places to see emerging trends in social media
use. The best way to organize the influx of data is to be selective about the sources
you use and to use an RSS reader like <a href="http://feedly.com/" target="_blank">Feedly</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">. Feedly allows users to subscribe to any written source with an RSS
feed and to organize these sources into categories. When building out your
reader, adding investigation, intelligence, and technology sources are greatly
beneficial to keeping abreast of emerging trends. This information will not
only help you identify new sources of information, it will also help you
understand which types of individuals are using the technology and how they are
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sites, many research entities discuss the changes in the social media
landscape. A major issue is that most research is scholarly in nature and costs
money to access. However, there are two free research sources that provide
excellent data: <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/" target="_blank">Pew Research Center</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> and <a href="http://nielsen.com/" target="_blank">Nielsen</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">. Both organizations study changes in technology usage and social media
trends and release reports on a routine basis. You can even add their RSS feeds
to your RSS reader. By keeping up with their findings, you can stay on pace
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these three sources, you can easily cultivate basic knowledge of the changing
social media landscape. This allows you to update your practices, improve
research and analysis, and add value for clients. </span></div>
CES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-19000045026323711142013-08-14T09:00:00.000-04:002013-08-14T09:00:10.330-04:00Cut Bad Hire Costs Using Employee Vetting<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hiring
a new member of any team is no easy task. Every company sinks thousands of
dollars into each new employee via hiring costs, wages, and training. However,
not every employee ends up being the right fit for the job, resulting in a bad
hire. According to a <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/share/aboutus/pressreleasesdetail.aspx?sd=12/13/2012&sc_cmp1=cb_pr730_&siteid=cbpr&id=pr730&ed=12/31/2012" target="_blank">December 2012 CareerBuilder survey</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, these bad hires
can cause the company many different issues ranging from poor work quality to
workplace turmoil to customer dissatisfaction. Ensuring the individual is a
right fit for the organization before bringing them in is essential to prevent
both bad hiring costs and <a href="http://www.hreonline.com/HRE/view/story.jhtml?id=534355102" target="_blank">hires’ remorse</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Recently,
we began writing pieces about employee vetting processes. First we wrote about <a href="http://cesprism.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-importance-of-employee-vetting-and.html" target="_blank">The Importance of Employee Vetting</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> from a security and
image perspective. Then we wrote about <a href="http://cesprism.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-importance-of-social-media-policies.html" target="_blank">The Importance Social Media Policies</a> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">in the entire
employment process from background checks to continuous evaluation. Now we’re
going to tackle the issue of cutting your number of bad hires by enhancing your
hiring process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To get
a basic idea of how much a bad hire can financially cost your company, you can
use <a href="http://www.adp.com/tools-and-resources/calculators-and-tools/pes-calculators/bad-hire-calc.aspx" target="_blank">ADP’s Bad Hire Calculator</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">. Considering the
data sources used to compile this tool are approximately 10 years old, the
costs of bad hires have likely risen since the formula was created. However,
these direct financial costs connected to the hiring process are not the only
costs companies pay when they make a bad hire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One
major downside to a bad hire is the negative impact it has on the organization
as a whole. <a href="http://blog.sagehrms.com/2013/04/hr-hiring-cost/" target="_blank">Managers report</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> that bad hires
ultimately bring a negative influence to the business, cause a decrease in
employee morale, and waste managers’ time with unnecessary supervision. When
bad hires are let go, it also leaves vacancies in the company which burden the
current staff with an extra workload and potentially result in lost
opportunities during the replacement hiring cycle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
you consider that the costs of a bad hire are in the thousands of dollars,
running additional pre-employment screening methods on advanced rounds of
candidates is a wise investment. Many employers report they are <a href="http://www.careerbuilder.com/share/aboutus/pressreleasesdetail.aspx?sd=12/13/2012&sc_cmp1=cb_pr730_&siteid=cbpr&id=pr730&ed=12/31/2012" target="_blank">rushing to hire candidates</a> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-tolan/hiring-tips_b_2330117.html" target="_blank">lack the intelligence</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> crucial to making
wise hiring decisions. You can improve your company’s hiring process by gaining
the intelligence you need by creating a comprehensive employee screening
solution for your final candidates that will capture the <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/alanhall/2012/06/19/the-7-cs-how-to-find-and-hire-great-employees/" target="_blank">intangibles necessary for the position</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">. There are two main
solutions you should consider when enhancing your pre-screening process:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Resume
& Application Vetting</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> – With the current
state of the economy, employers report that resume fraud is a persistent issue.
In order to ensure your candidate was truthful in their resume and on their
application, you can vet applications and resumes using a variety of techniques
spanning from reference calls to online investigations. Social media sites like
LinkedIn can assist with confirming the timeline individuals present on their
resume, and you can build networks of coworkers and classmates to demonstrate
personal connections to institutions. Finding inconsistencies on resumes can
help reduce the amount of candidates in the final rounds of the hiring process
and provide crucial intelligence to making the right decision.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Social Media Data</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> – It can provide a
wealth of information about a candidate’s personality, allowing you to access a
rich set of personal information not contained on resumes or applications. Social media can provide you with an inside
glimpse into the lives of individuals ranging from their technical ability to
their general demeanor and outside interests. It can also give you valuable
data about how individuals interact with others and handle adversity and
conflict. This data can be crucial to ensuring you hire someone whose
personality will mesh with your current staff and can assist with intelligence for
your final round of interviews. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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additional screening methods do bring additional costs, if you only run these
methods on serious candidates rather than rushing to a decision, you can
actually save your company thousands of dollars in bad hiring costs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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CES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-74509036713604922352013-08-07T12:52:00.000-04:002013-08-07T12:52:07.141-04:00The Importance of Social Media Policies<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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-</style><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Two days ago, a member
of the team was browsing their Facebook feed and found a video of an
acquaintance. This individual worked at a local restaurant, and the footage
showed the individual and other members of the staff partying in the kitchen of
the restaurant after hours. During the course of the video, employees were
smoking marijuana, drinking alcohol, and dancing to loud music. Within a few
hours, the individual had removed the post and posted a status update lamenting
about being pressured to remove the post. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">If left unchecked, situations
like these can lead to bad publicity for organizations and can even damage the
company’s reputation. Two weeks ago, we wrote about <a href="http://cesprism.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-importance-of-employee-vetting-and.html" target="_blank">The Importance of Employee Vetting and Continuous Evaluation</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">. Not every organization has access
to the same resources of a giant corporation to deal with the fallout of social
media debacles. However, a strong social media policy is a massive step in the
right direction. In order to have a robust policy, there are a few main things
organizations need to do along the employee timeline. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Add Social Media to Your Background Check Procedures</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Presently, many
companies are adopting social media pre-employment screening as a part of their
comprehensive background check process. This allows organizations to assess
certain character traits vital to their organization and authenticate some resume
and application-based data by using open source information on social media sites.
It also helps assure <a href="http://www.sba.gov/community/blogs/facebook-credit-checks-criminal-records-where-law-stands-employee-background-checks" target="_blank">due diligence</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">on the part of employers during
the hiring process. However, it is pertinent to fully disclose the scope of the
background check process on authorization forms. The Society for Human Resource
Management has posted <a href="http://www.shrm.org/TemplatesTools/Samples/HRForms/Articles/Pages/1CMS_002146.aspx" target="_blank">a good example</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">of a standard authorization form
which may cover the scope of a comprehensive background check. It is important that
companies routinely update these forms and their hiring procedures to remain Fair
Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) compliant.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Make a Sound Social Media Policy</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">In addition to incorporating
social media to background check procedures, companies need to have a robust
social media policy in place. Social media policies and monitoring procedures
can help employers ensure that employees understand and acknowledge the full
scope of workplace monitoring and that employers apply the policy equally using
standardized procedures. This policy can cover a multitude of areas, including acceptable
employee use, <a href="http://www.sba.gov/community/blogs/how-craft-social-media-policy-your-small-business" target="_blank">business use</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">, and <a href="http://www.iacpsocialmedia.org/Portals/1/documents/SMInvestigativeGuidance.pdf" target="_blank">investigative procedures</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While businesses need to <a href="http://mynlrb.nlrb.gov/link/document.aspx/09031d4580a375cd" target="_blank">respect employees’ right to organize</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">, there is still a lot of leeway
given to companies to create and enforce acceptable use policies. Attorney
<a href="http://fmjlaw.com/professionals/heidi_carpenter.php" target="_blank">Heidi Carpenter</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">wrote a great <a href="http://www.smbceo.com/2012/05/24/social-media-in-the-workplace/" target="_blank">set of guidelines</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">employers should use when utilizing
social media in the workplace.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Follow Through</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">One major issue that
arises is employers’ laxity regarding policies and procedures. Employers need
to <a href="http://www.law.com/corporatecounsel/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202600243789&Balancing_Social_Media_Risk_and_Employee_Policies&slreturn=20130706091908" target="_blank">reinforce the policies</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">by integrating them into the
larger company culture. In order to <a href="http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/employers-can-discipline-employees-for-c-51848/" target="_blank">ensure compliance with company regulations</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">, businesses also need to routinely
monitor their employees’ social media profiles and enforce the policies in a
<a href="http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/practices/index.cfm" target="_blank">nondiscriminatory manner</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">. In doing so, companies can help
protect their reputation by hiring the right person and preventing situations
from getting out of hand.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Disclaimer: This blog post is for informational purposes and
should not be construed as giving legal advice. For legal advice regarding
social media policies and procedures, consult a legal professional.</span></i></div>
CES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-29612305407841013332013-07-31T16:07:00.000-04:002013-07-31T16:33:49.295-04:00Tips & Tricks: Three Easy Ways to Maximize Your Training Experience<style>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Over the past few months, the team has been taking advantage of
conferences happening around the state. At the center of all of these
conferences were knowledgeable experts speaking and providing training.
However, upon examining the materials our team brought back, we found the
training was not always up-to-date and usually did not cover new, relevant
practices or sources of information. Everything changes quickly on the
Internet, whether it is changes in privacy law, new best practices, or the
popularity of social media platforms. As investigators and researchers, it is
important we budget our time and ensure we are spending our funds wisely to
keep abreast of these changes. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Here are some quick easy tips on how to make the most of your training
experience.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Vet the Trainer</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Beware of
self-proclaimed experts. Many individuals actually work in areas tangentially
related to the subject of the training. Learning the perspective of the trainer
can greatly inform you about what to expect to learn from a training session. In
order to ensure the trainer has working knowledge of the subject, research their
biographies appearing on websites, news sources, and social media profiles. You
can also use information present on conference websites and in related training
files (see below) to see if trainers cover material from an angle that matches
your needs. Additionally, these sources can give you an idea of when the trainer
worked in this field, whether or not they are using up-to-date information and
techniques, and if they routinely update materials or simply recycle the same information.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Get Free Materials Using Internet
Searches</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Many trainers and conferences post documents and videos online which are
readily available for use. All you have to do is leverage Internet-based
searches to your advantage. Good places to start looking for information are on
websites of companies and individuals which provide training, conference
websites, and document and video sharing websites. However, sometimes the information
is not always easy to find. As training materials are most often posted in
.pdf, .ppt, and .pptx formats, using a <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35287?hl=en" target="_blank">filetype search on Google</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">can
often make all of the difference. While free materials are not always the best
materials, finding this information before you purchase training sessions can
save you time and money by allowing you to explore your options and vet
trainers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Plan and Engage</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The true key to getting the most out of your training experience is
planning and preparation. Before you schedule your training regimen, you have
to set your goals and measurable outcomes. There are many questions you should
ask yourself before you register:</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">What skills do you want to work during the training period? </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">How will this training help you enhance these skills? </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Are there others in your office that could also benefit from this kind
of training? </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">What is your expense budget? </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Do you want in-person or webinar training? </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">What questions might you have for the trainer on this subject? </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Once you find the answers to these questions, you will have a better
idea of how you and others in your organization can benefit from training. To
enhance your experience at the training session, be attentive, take notes, form
questions as issues arise, and ask those questions to the trainer during the
session. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In business, you cannot afford to waste time or money. We can use the
same skills utilized during investigations to vet out the other areas of
business we encounter on a routine basis. All business intelligence is built
upon a solid foundation of relevant, up-to-date knowledge and clear objectives.
Who you select to teach you these skills can make all of the difference to your
long-term success.</span></span></div>
CES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-67356183578664651422013-07-24T14:28:00.000-04:002013-07-24T14:28:13.364-04:00Using Analysis to Curtail False Positives<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Some of
us ran into false positives while recently travelling. One person on our team
was in the airport and set off the body scanner machine. He was sweaty from
carrying a backpack through the line, so his scan showed a heat source
emanating from his back. This prompted security to examine him to ensure was
nothing hidden under his clothing. Without this analysis, he could have been
put through a much lengthier security procedure because of his initial false
positive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Investigators
seek to corroborate facts with other supporting facts or artifacts to validate
or verify source data. When we talk about our services, many people want to
know how we combat false positives. They want assurance the data we provide is
legitimate and relevant to our investigations. In order to avoid false
positives, we employ a few techniques to examine data.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">First
and foremost, we employ data analysis. Currently, there is a <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/04/steamrolled-by-big-data.html" target="_blank">large trend</a> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">towards capturing
big data for intelligence and business purposes. Most of our investigations
deal with the big data pools originating from social media. During the primary
stages of our work, we capture large amounts of data about the subject of
interest. However, instead of taking big data at face value, we work in the
business of “smart data” by using our <a href="http://cesprism.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-value-of-data-fusion.html" target="_blank">data FUSION approach</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Our
analysts scale the mountains of data to extract only the relevant pieces of
data for analysis. <a href="http://cesprism.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-importance-of-employee-vetting-and.html" target="_blank">As we discussed last week</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, this method has helped us
in many investigations, especially while vetting employees. When we look at a subject
and identify potentially relevant information, we dig deeper to see if
something is an isolated incident, part of a larger pattern, or a false
positive. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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also extremely pertinent to vet information during event monitoring. For a
training exercise, members of our team conducted real-time monitoring of <a href="http://www.nba.com/playoffs/2013/eastseries5/" target="_blank">Game 5</a>
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">of the NBA Eastern
Conference Semifinals. During the course of our monitoring, we uncovered a retweeted
post of someone claiming they would kill themselves if the Heat lost. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this would be a high level threat to an event, so we vetted the post to ensure
it was not a false positive. Upon completion of some cursory Internet-based
research, we discovered there was no cause for concern. This post was simply a
meme of something that was <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BG5FnsrCUAATrAt.jpg" target="_blank">previously posted on Instagram</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">. (Note: This post has since been removed by the original poster.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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often think of data sources as originating from the person of interest.
However, not everyone has a substantial Internet-based footprint, potentially
because they have implemented privacy settings to hide information. To avoid
missing pertinent information, we have to examine individuals other than the subject.
In cases such as these, we have to identify content curated by their friends
and family. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">During
an employee vetting investigation, our subject used privacy settings to restrict
access to his content. Previously, this employee had passed his background
investigation with flying colors. On his application the employee stated he did
not use drugs, and he passed a drug test. However, his friend posted a picture
of “<a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=purple%20drank" target="_blank">purple drank</a>,”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> including the
bottle of codeine cough syrup, and tagged the employee in the tweet. (Above is
a screenshot we captured of a similar post.) This tweet indicated the
possibility of a false positive during the initial application process and
flagged the subject for further investigation into his habits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As we
just discussed, photos can be key to unlocking an investigation. However, it is
not possible to analyze photos using traditional big data means. Organizations
often rely on textual analysis to flag content, but the text surrounding photos
can be unrepresentative of the photo itself or use terms which are not currently
being monitored. This means we have to look at the photos themselves to analyze
content. Currently, there are no photo analysis programs which can conduct comprehensive
contextual and photographic analysis for investigators. Analysts still have to use
their skills to conduct an assessment of photographic evidence to ensure there
are no false positives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is
in everyone’s best interest for investigators to be thorough during
investigations and report accurate findings. It is our responsibility to fully
vet pertinent information before presenting it to our clients. Whenever a piece
of potentially important information cannot be verified without further
investigation, we must report it as a possibility instead of a fact. We give
our customers more than just raw data; we give them analyzed information
pertinent for decision making. Our investigations have real world consequences,
and it is our duty to ensure we conduct and report them in an ethical manner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
CES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-18690604503254337752013-07-17T09:00:00.000-04:002013-07-17T09:00:08.069-04:00The Importance of Employee Vetting and Continuous Evaluation<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">In the past few months, employee vetting has been at the center of the
debates regarding two major public relations nightmares.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">One is the case of <a href="http://theweek.com/article/index/245967/edward-snowden-and-americas-security-clearance-vetting-problem)" target="_blank">Edward Snowden</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, the
Booze Allen employee who exposed the NSA’s PRISM program. Some have claimed
Snowden provided false information on his resume yet somehow still successfully
passed his background check. Gaining access to the information available in
this position is what both prompted Edward Snowden to apply for the position
and allowed him to expose the government’s dealings in dark data. In response,
<a href="http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/edward-snowden-inspires-bill-to-reform-security-clearance" target="_blank">legislators are attempting to overhaul</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> the
background check and security clearance process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The other is the current murder investigation focusing on former New
England Patriot Aaron Hernandez. When Hernandez played at the University of
Florida, he <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/07/03/aaron_hernandez_florida_shooting_of_course_the_former_gator_got_off_the.html?wpisrc=obinsite" target="_blank">began displaying a propensity for violence</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> and
even took a <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2013/06/26/aaron-hernandez-gun-glock-murder-photo/" target="_blank">photo of himself</a> with a glock</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. Over
the past few years, Hernandez has been <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/02/aaron-hernandez-violence-police-murder-charge_n_3537850.html" target="_blank">connected to many violent encounters</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">which
have ultimately been publicized in light of the current investigation. In
response to the investigation, the New England Patriots released Hernandez and
lost approximately $250,000 on a <a href="http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/eye-on-football/22685576/patriots-owner-team-lost-250k-on-aaron-hernandez-jersey-swap" target="_blank">jersey swap program</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">that
allowed fans to swap out their Hernandez jerseys for another player’s. It also
spurred EA to <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/news/ea-removes-aaron-hernandez-from-ncaa-football-14-madden-nfl-25-6411145" target="_blank">remove Hernandez</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> from
two upcoming game releases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In both cases, officials and commentators often cite the failure to
properly assess the employee’s background and character prior to employing them
as one of the major causes for these incidents. These incidents have brought
bad publicity to both organizations which could ultimately prove to be costly
and fundamentally damage their reputations. To avoid making this mistake, it is
important that organizations embrace a holistic approach to employee vetting
that goes beyond standard background check objectives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Traditional Background Checks
Aren’t Enough<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Most organizations employ a standardized method of employee vetting. Companies
traditionally use premade application forms and a prepackaged public records background
checks to complete their evaluation of candidates. However, <a href="http://cesprism.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-value-of-data-fusion.html" target="_blank">as we havepreviously covered</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, public
records data can often be inaccurate or out of date. Similarly, these premade
application forms may no longer capture the information vital to the needs of
an organization. Standardized methods do not provide a comprehensive means of
evaluation, especially for visible and sensitive positions which require a
deeper dive into the daily lives of individuals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Recently, our analysts worked two cases which clearly demonstrate this
point. We were asked by a client to investigate two individuals who were hired
for security-based positions. These positions required individuals to have a
clean criminal record, be drug free, and refrain from having connections to
potentially harmful influences, such as gangs. Both of these employees
indicated refraining from substance abuse in their applications, passed their
drug tests, and showed no history of legal troubles in their public records
searches. However, their social media footprints revealed a much different
story. One individual had a history of posting stashes of drugs and money on
his social media accounts as well as discussing his marijuana smoking habits.
The other had a brother who was affiliated with a local gang; his brother posted
photos of himself both smoking marijuana and standing in a field of marijuana.
These social media investigations revealed that both employees posed potential
security threats.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Continuous Evaluation is
Necessary<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Once employees are on the job, organizations cannot afford to go without
continuous evaluation. The circumstances in employees’ lives can change. New
financial hardships may arise which make them more susceptible to bribery.
Individuals can make new connections to individuals and organizations which put
them at risk. People can get into legal trouble during the course of employment.
No matter what new circumstances may arise, periodic reinvestigations, similar
to those done for security clearances, are necessary to ensure compliance with
company regulations and policies. These evaluations can help head off any
potential incidents before they manifest themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Value Added</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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investigations and continuous evaluation, they can ensure they are doing their
due diligence. This can help them control their image by finding obvious
sources of data which exist in social media. Social media data can identify red
flags during the pre-screening process which can help organizations avoid
marring their reputations by curtailing public relations debacles. In a world
in which inordinate amounts of information are available to the public, it is
important for employers to ensure they access the intelligence vital to
mitigating organizational risk. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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devoted to the review and analysis of tools that assist with social media and
open source research and analytics.</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For the past few months, a few of us at CES have been beta testing
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/about/graphsearch" target="_blank">Facebook’s Graph Search</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">feature. On July 8, 2013, <a href="https://newsroom.fb.com/News/660/Expanding-Graph-Search-Beta" target="_blank">Facebook announced</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">the
feature will soon be available to all Facebook users who have selected US
English as their language. In order to prepare for the new search features, it
is important to understand that Graph Search works quite differently than the
current Facebook search feature.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Graph Search allows users to create flexible, complex queries for
information. Instead of the current system in which users have to search for a
term and then sort the data, users can now <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/technology/a-new-tool-aims-to-help-facebook-users-dig-deep.html" target="_blank">string together</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">the
relevant pieces of information to narrow search results. For instance, if you
wanted to locate a jewelry store in Saint Augustine, Florida, you would simply
type “Jewelry Stores in Saint Augustine, Florida.” The returned results only
include jewelry stores which are located in Saint Augustine. The ease of using
Graph Search allows us researchers to perform queries at a faster rate because
we no longer have to take the extra step to run filters, and we can make more
complicated searches than ever before. (See the Facebook Graph Search Cheat
Sheet below.) However, not all search terms are easy to work with, and search results
can be misleading.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Just because Graph Search says it returned all relevant search results,
it does not necessarily mean all relevant results were accessible and/or
properly categorized. There are a few major issues with search results in
Facebook. First and foremost, users can choose to opt out of search results;
this would exclude these users from the results even if they meet the criteria.
Second, many users have privacy settings that prevent the system from returning
their information in search results. Third, Facebook users do not necessarily
complete their profile nor input their data in a uniform way. For instance, one
person our St. Augustine office technically lived in New York, New York, but
she identified her location on Facebook as her neighborhood, Harlem, New York,
which would excluded her from New York, New York results. Finally, not all data
fields or types of information are currently searchable, including posts. If
the data you are searching for is embedded in posts, you will miss that
information in your search.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Facebook’s Graph Search is a great tool. In the office, many of us used
to complain about the difficulty we had searching for information inside of
Facebook. Aside from the missing post search feature, the site has become much
easier to use for locating information. Although Graph Search has some issues
and requires users to learn the language before they can effectively search the
system, it is ultimately a step forward for searching inside of Facebook. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In order to help you use Graph Search, we created a quick Graph Search
Cheat Sheet.</span></span></div>
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CES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-88583139916252234922013-07-03T10:27:00.001-04:002013-07-03T10:27:08.091-04:00Case Study: Protesting the G8<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/22951777" target="_blank">39<sup>th</sup> Annual G8 Summit</a> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">was held on June 17-18, 2013 <span style="background: white;">at the Lough Erne
Golf Resort in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: windowtext;">Enniskillen</span><span style="background: white;">, Northern Ireland.
Traditionally, the G8 Summit attracts protests and civil disobedience. As it
was in Northern Ireland this year, we expected increased activity leading up to
the Summit. In order to test our event monitoring analytics, we decided to monitor
social media chatter about the G8 Summit beginning three weeks before the event
and lasting throughout the end of the Summit to detect any acts of civil
disobedience that may occur. For the purpose of simplicity, we will focus on a
group of events that occurred on June 11, 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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anti-G8 group calling themselves StopG8. Their website was a rich source of
information about protests scheduled for the week leading up to the Summit. StopG8
<a href="https://network23.org/stopg8/week-of-action/key-events/" target="_blank">listed key events</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> and maintained a complete calendar of activities. One of the most important
items found on the website was <a href="https://network23.org/stopg8/j11-carnival-against-capitalism/j11-map-of-the-capitalist-west-end/" target="_blank">a </a><span style="background: white;"><a href="https://network23.org/stopg8/j11-carnival-against-capitalism/j11-map-of-the-capitalist-west-end/" target="_blank">map</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> of
protests aimed at the West End of London on June 11, 2013, complete with a
manifesto against financial greed and corruption.<span style="background: white;">
This event was commonly referred to as the <a href="https://network23.org/stopg8/j11-carnival-against-capitalism/" target="_blank">Carnival Against Capitalism</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">and was tagged as #J11 on social media. <span style="background: white;">The map
of these demonstrations became one of the most widespread images leading up to
the G8 Summit. Using this information about #J11 and associated activities, we
were able to identify individuals who were attending these protests.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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we identified the organizing force behind the protests and the language
associated with these events, we were able to construct a network of
individuals interacting with one another on social media. Network mapping allowed
us to begin tracking participants and monitoring their activities throughout
the duration of the protests. Using social media posts from protesters and
journalists, we were able to harvest raw data from the ground. A good source of
raw footage and commentary throughout #J11 was journalist Jules Mattsson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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raw source data from Mr. Mattsson provided real-time footage of the activity
occurring at #J11. Using this data, we were able to see events as they unfolded
and track the movements of participants as they moved throughout London. Our
analysts were then equipped with emerging intelligence to analyze the changing
landscape of #J11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in our research, we identified information about the <a href="https://network23.org/stopg8/week-of-action/accomodation/" target="_blank">Convergence Centre</a> where
people could stay during the protests</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. This
location was meant to be a safe house for individuals participating in the
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individuals needed to find new locations to stay at for the night. StopG8
provided new contact information for protesters to use to find new lodging
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of emerging social media data allowed our analysts to stay current on the
rapidly unfolding circumstances surrounding #J11. After vetting information for
authenticity, our team was equipped with the information necessary to provide
real-time intelligence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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there was a mountain of big data to scale regarding activities related to the
G8 Summit, it was readily available for analysis. Organizers and protesters routinely
harness the power of social media to communicate with one another and expand
their networks and sphere of influence. Social media has the power to identify pieces
of raw data which identify locations, individuals, networks, and activities important
to emerging events. It is up to us as analysts to identify these rich data
sources and use them as part of our investigative and intelligence solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Recently, the PRISM team has
been out on the road discussing our services and methods with potential and
current clients. During the process, we generated interest in our data FUSION
process and the value it adds to investigations. It made us realize our readers
(you) could benefit from the same discussion. To simplify the process, we will
discuss the value added from each type of data source. Currently, we utilize
three main sources: Public Records, Online Content, and Social Media Content.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Public records push a
research project off in the right direction. With the abundance of personal
information available, these records make it possible for you to look up criminal
and litigation history, identify physical locations and property information,
map out potential networks of family and associates, and vet out current
licensures. Together, all of these records combine to build a base for your
research. They provide relevant search terms and locations for the rest of your
work. However, many public records databases contain outdated, incomplete, and
inaccurate information. You still have to look at other sources of information
to verify the data and paint a more complete picture of the individual of
interest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">General online content is
a great way to find out how the individual of interest interacts with society
at large. News stories can help research a multitude of issues related to an
individual. First, they can help you identify any additional criminal or civil
litigation information which may have been excluded from public records. Second,
news articles provide a wealth of knowledge regarding business operations which
can help you set a general context for the individual’s professional life.
Finally, local news also tends to spend time giving lip service to those doing
work in the community, which can help you identify additional organizations
connected to the person of interest. When you combine this data with personal
and professional websites, you have additional contextual data that informs you
about what the person is involved in on a routine basis. However, this data,
even when combined with public records, tells you very little about the actual person
you are investigating and still may contain some inaccurate information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Social media content’s
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and habits. When a person posts a wide array of information about the things
they like, do, and consume, it becomes very easy to identify additional places
to locate information. Social media profiles also provide a great wealth of
connection data that allows you to confirm connections from public records and
build out additional social networks. Additionally, you can verify some of the data
that was originally identified in both public records and online content. It is
imperative this data is fused together with public records and online data
during the research process. Without social media, it is nearly impossible to fully
understand an individual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">To add reliable,
actionable intelligence to your investigation, it is imperative to use a data
fusion approach. Without using a comprehensive online research solution, you
can be acting upon inaccurate or incomplete information. In order to provide a
truly thorough investigative service to your clients, you should implement a
data fusion process as a integral part of your operations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The world of social media and online content is becoming increasingly
visual. Photos and videos are becoming the primary vehicle used by many to
communicate their thoughts and ideas with others. Gone are the walls of text
once prevalent in the era of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocities" target="_blank">Geocities</a>. Today, online content generally focuses
on conveying messages with little text in a manner designed to impact users in
a big way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This trend is exemplified by Facebook’s <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/facebook-unveils-new-features-to-its-news-feed.php" target="_blank">recent announcement</a> it was transitioning to a more visual news feed. The change was reportedly
prompted by the growing popularity of other social media sites such as <a href="http://instagram.com/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, <a href="http://pinterest.com/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>, and <a href="http://tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Tumblr</a>. Additionally, Google recently added a <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/18/google-updates-local-search-results-on-desktop-with-carousel-design/" target="_blank">carousel design</a> to its search returns which show photos related to search
terms. These changes to a more visual culture has made the analysis of images
during social media research much more important.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Analysts must be able to draw conclusions from the content
of the photos themselves. More importantly, analysts must equip their toolkit
with applications that visualize the metadata behind photos and give users the
ability to search for images across the Internet. There are a variety of
individual services that perform these functions such as <a href="http://www.tineye.com/" target="_blank">TinEye</a> and <a href="http://metapicz.com/" target="_blank">metapicz</a>. However, there is
a Google Chrome application which combines a variety of these image analysis
tools into a single, simple interface: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/image-tools/jfhlbnfopnonplmphdkpphhakfplfjbp" target="_blank">Image Tools</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Image Tools combines applications that extract exchangeable
image file format (exif) data and provide reverse image search services together
in a single right-click interface. With this application, analysts can gain insight
into the data behind photos and determine if they are used elsewhere. The two
main features of the tool are exif viewers and reverse image searches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Viewers</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exif data is a structured data set embedded into most
digital images by the device that captured it. Certain tools can extract latent
information from images for further analysis. To detail this concept, we will
examine the exif data behind our Project Manager’s stylish sunglasses: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Using Jeffrey’s Exif Viewer, you can visualize an abundance
of information. You now know the photo was taken on an iPhone 3G running out of
date software on June 19, 2013 at 12:56PM at a specific location. This
information is vital when building timelines and placing people at certain
locations. The exif tools featured in Image Tools also allow users to see a map
of the area where the photo was taken. These latent details give analysts
greater insight into the subject of their investigation.</span></div>
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extracted from images downloaded from the Internet and email attachments. When
an image has been uploaded to a site like Facebook or Imgur, the rich exif
metadata is generally removed from the photo. Ultimately, the ability to extract
this data depends on the website hosting the image and whether users or the
site have scrubbed the metadata from the photo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reverse image searches are valuable when you are attempting
to identify online accounts maintained by a single individual or the original source
of an image. The toolset available in Image Tools allows you to right click on
an image and search for sites where that image was used before. This saves a
great deal of effort when trying to build out an individual’s online footprint.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To show how this works, we will use a reverse image search
to identify accounts belonging to a member of the Syrian Electronic Army. Once
you identify <a href="https://twitter.com/Th3Shad0w_SEA" target="_blank">one account </a>maintained by the
person of interest, you can right click on their profile image and perform a
reverse image search. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/k5xbgue" target="_blank">The search</a> for the image below returned thirteen results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the results, you can to identify <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/SEATheShadow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> and <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/the-shadow/50/702/90b" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> accounts. Image Tools gives you a jump-start
on building out this individual’s digital footprint by helping you identify additional
accounts within minutes. From there, you can continue to build out this
individual’s network based upon the other data found on these profiles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without facial recognition capabilities, the average profile
photo does not fare so well in a reverse image search. This method works best
when the individual’s avatar is somewhat unique. However, you should always run
a reverse image search because there may be relevant results. Using these searches
can be valuable time savers when trying to identify where avatars may have been
used elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The two sets of features detailed above show how analysts
can exploit the growing image-centric nature of online content when conducting
their research. Image Tools is a great all-in-one app for viewing exif data and
searching through disparate data sources to locate images. Every analyst’s
toolkit should have a similar tool to investigate the data behind digital images.
Thanks to exif data and reverse image searches, you can go beyond what it is in
a photo by examining what is behind it as well.</span><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
CES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-11601341618298495902013-06-12T22:01:00.000-04:002013-06-12T22:19:42.153-04:00Building Your Tool Chest: The New Google Maps<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Building Your Tool Chest
is a series devoted to the review and analysis of tools that assist with social
media and open source research and analytics.</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In
May, <a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2013/05/meet-new-google-maps-map-for-every.html" target="_blank">Google revealed the new Google Maps interface</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. Currently, it is in its
testing phase, and no firm release data has been set. A few of us in our St.
Augustine office started using it and instantly noticed graphical improvements
to the system. There are some fantastic new visualization features, including
tilt view and additional photo streams. However, some ease of use issues may
make this version more cumbersome for research. We used Flagler College as a
comparison point for differences between the new and current Google Maps.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Now
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location of interest. The compass and tilt view are great for changing the
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towards Anastasia Island and the Atlantic Ocean. Although the 3D graphics <a href="http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/22/googles-new-3d-maps-destroy-manhattan-in-the-wake-of-apples-flyover" target="_blank">do not always properly render</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, it can give you a good
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the current version of Google Maps, a static bubble pops out of the pin when
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locations on maps based upon users’ preferences and history could prove to be
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map view, both the new and current Google Maps show comparable sized data sets
and matching data points. However, when we move into Earth view in the new
version and satellite view in the current version, we begin to see differences
in data. The current satellite view provides more data points on the map, while
the new Earth view shows only selective locations. It is hard to tell if this
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knowing all of the changes Google will make to the new maps system before it is
released, it is hard to know how many of these functionality issues may impact
our work in the future. Additionally, it is difficult to predict future changes
in Google Maps based upon changes in the business environment, as social
companies are constantly outmaneuvering one another through acquisition and
development. <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-11/google-acquires-software-maker-waze-in-push-to-make-maps-social.html" target="_blank">Google’s recent acquisition of Waze </a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">could further impact
direction and travel features added to new Google Maps, which is why we did not
include those features in our discussion. Between the acquisition and feedback
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we will not know the full impact of the changes to Google Maps until it is
released, accessing tools during the testing phase keeps us ahead of the curve by
anticipating how changes in technology may impact our future research
practices. By providing feedback during the preview process, it allows us to shape
the development of these tools for easier and expanded use by analysts. If
you’re interested in testing out the new Google Maps, <a href="http://maps.google.com/help/maps/helloworld/desktop/preview/" target="_blank">click here</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> for an invite and more
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span>CES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-91499707991414099612013-06-05T11:17:00.000-04:002013-06-12T22:26:08.901-04:00Tips & Tricks: 4 Faster Ways to Identify Data Sources<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tips & Tricks is a series of
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investigations, it is pertinent that we work smarter, not harder. One of the
tricks we have learned is to find sources which aggregate social media profile
and website information. It decreases the time spent identifying individual
accounts and allows us to devote more time to data analysis. There are four
major sources we use: websites & blogs, social media profiles, social
influence sites, and <a href="http://checkusernames.com/">checkusernames.com</a>. To
illustrate how it works, we chose to research Britney Spears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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media profiles and other additional sources of information. In the case of
Britney Spears, the header of <a href="http://britneyspears.com/" target="_blank">her website</a> links to her
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, Tumblr, and iTunes profiles, and slightly
down the page is a link to her Instagram profile. The front page of the website
clearly identifies seven additional data sources. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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However, many people maintain more than one account. With the advent of apps, there
is a wealth of data from linked accounts and cross-posted application data. In
the case of <a href="http://britneyspears.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Britney’s Tumblr</a>, six data
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as a Google+ profile listed on a YouTube channel. Second, you can identify profiles
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An often-overlooked
source of information is social influence sites, such as <a href="http://klout.com/" target="_blank">Klout</a> and <a href="http://peerindex.com/" target="_blank">PeerIndex</a>. These sites allow users to measure their influence by
connecting social media profiles to their account and gain perks for topic and
network influence. As researchers, social influence sites allow us to quickly
harvest links, establish connections between users, and identify topics of
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<span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On <a href="http://klout.com/britneyspears" target="_blank">Britney’s Klout page</a>, there are six linked social media accounts: Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube, Instagram, and Tumblr.</span></span></div>
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identified usernames for an individual, a quick and simple way to see if it is used
on another network is to run it through checkusernames.com. If the site
identifies the username as registered, it is possible the same user has a
profile on an additional site. However, as some usernames are popular, it is
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While Britney
Spears is more plugged in than the average individual, the methodology still
remains true. Capturing connections between data sources fundamentally
expedites the identification process. Because there is no master tool which
identifies profiles and websites, using disparate data sources to capture this
information is the key to building and analyzing an individual’s complete
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CES PRISMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382238446764813306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137797413576240028.post-43052698829621985172013-05-28T14:35:00.000-04:002013-05-28T14:36:52.523-04:00Developing PRISM: The Journey from a Concept to Version 1<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
Due to the increasing usage of social media, it has become
essential to collect open source information for investigations, intelligence,
and legal proceedings. Federal agencies like </span><a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/04/social-media-wiretapping-fbi/64684/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the FBI</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
and </span><a href="http://socialtimes.com/why-social-media-is-the-new-face-of-disaster-response-infographic_b126845" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FEMA</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> have begun to embrace the power of social media data for investigations,
situational awareness, and disaster response. The NYPD launched its </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-forms-new-social-media-unit-facebook-twitter-mayhem-article-1.945242" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">social media unit</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in 2011
and has since used social media data to identify murderers and </span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/19/us-crime-gang-socialmedia-idUSTRE80I2CI20120119" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gang activity</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/nyregion/to-stem-juvenile-robberies-police-trail-youths-before-the-crime.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">curtail juvenile crime</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.
Similarly, both </span><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/social-media-double-edged-sword-steubenville-rape-case-1C8958979" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">criminal</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.natlawreview.com/article/another-facebook-case-another-lesson-learned" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">civil</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> court cases have increasingly utilized social media data for eDiscovery. While
the willingness to harness the power of social media data is growing, not every
organization has access to the tools necessary to conduct thorough open source
social media research and analysis. Our need for a more efficient social media
research and analysis tool initiated the development of <a href="http://www.cesprism.com/#!prism/c1rd1" target="_blank">PRISM</a>. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Creation of PRISM</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before discussing the tool, it is important to understand
CES as a company. </span><a href="http://www.cesnb.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CES</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is a professional firm which
provides analytical, investigative, intelligence, and eDiscovery services to
both the public and private sector. The primary focus of our business is fraud
investigations. The company’s leadership and investigators come from a diverse
array of intelligence and investigative backgrounds, including the FBI, DEA,
OIG, NCIS, and federal and local law enforcement agencies. These individuals are
a rich source of expertise on matters ranging from healthcare fraud to organized
crime to computer and network forensics. To support their work, our analysts
are trained experts in fusing together disparate data sources, such as public
records, news media, and social media data. We combine this data to identify
individuals, build networks, and monitor and track emerging and current threats
using our </span><a href="http://www.cesprism.com/#!fusion/cqsy" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">data FUSION approach</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In order to provide our core services and enhance our data FUSION
capabilities, </span><a href="http://cesnb.com/index.php/about/meet-our-team/carl-florez/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CES President Carl Florez</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> determined CES investigators and analysts needed a more efficient way to
conduct open source research and analysis across various social media platforms.
In July 2012, he assigned the task of developing a new tool to Project Manager
and Legal Counsel </span><a href="http://www.cesprism.com/#!team/co2y" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blake Haase</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.
The goal was to create a tool which adhered to current legal standards and decreased
the manual search time expended gathering open source social media data. After
many rounds of testing and tool changes, the first version of PRISM was
completed in March 2013.
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PRISM V1.0</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the end of development, the result was PRISM V1.0. PRISM
is an API-driven (Application Programming Interface) browser-based social media
research and analysis tool. It allows investigators and analysts to search
across 24 social media, blog-based, and news-based sites. PRISM decreases the labor-intensive
processing time spent identifying social media profiles and relevant data
sources. These custom search results can be saved for future use with an
assigned hash value for authentication purposes. After individual social media
account profiles are identified, usernames can be entered into the tool for an
API-based profile search.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PRISM pulls publicly available API profile data from nine
popular US social media sites. The API profile search quickly populates individual
and organizational profiles with a wealth of data for filtering and analysis.
These results are automatically saved with available metadata and are hashed
for authentication. The available metadata information typically includes date,
time, unique identification, and geo-location data. All of these results can be
exported into three formats for additional analysis outside of the tool and for
reporting purposes. Once these searches are saved in the system, analysts have
the ability to compare connections between individuals, plot geo-location data,
and obtain word counts. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Future of PRISM</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Currently, PRISM is used by CES’ investigators and analysts
to provide services to our customers. Select law enforcement agencies are also
testing the tool and providing valuable feedback for future development. Social
media open source data has become an integral part of CES’ day-to-day and
future operations. As the company expanded into the social media realm, we
realized a need for continuous evaluation of social media sites, trends, and
changes in data structures and laws. By being abreast of these trends, we can
modify our data FUSION process and further develop PRISM. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In response to the rapidly changing social media landscape,
CES is beginning the development of PRISM V2. It is our goal to enhance our
work product by tweaking the tool to make it easier to use, adding new features
to capture additional relevant data, and enhancing the tool’s built-in
analytical capabilities. Throughout the development of V2, CES will be focused
on creating a more comprehensive solution to meet the needs of our clients and
testers. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learning Together</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The CES PRISM blog is the place where we share the newest
developments in social media sites and tools, data analytics, eDiscovery,
investigations, and intelligence. We will also share workflow tips and tricks,
case studies, and the developmental progress of PRISM. Our goal is to open a
dialogue with the community which allows all of us to learn together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have any ideas, questions, or comments? Drop us
a line by contacting CES’ resident blogger, </span><a href="mailto:melody.ross@cesnb.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Melody Ross</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></span></div>
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