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AI’s Biggest Compliance Problems: Getting AI to Comply Series, Part V
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Learn MoreOur 100% Unbiased 4:cast Awards Nominations
Every year, Lee Whitfield asks everyone in DFIR what stood out in the space—what tools, people, content, etc. defined the last 12 months. It’s an awesomely democratic process, and we...
Learn moreYara, Android (aLEAPP), Domains, and More in 4.18.0
The Autopsy 4.18.0 release is out with lots of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. This blog dives a little deeper into some key digital forensics features. New Android, iOS,...
Learn moreThe Fight Against Intelligence Failures with Natural Language Processing
In his book “Intelligence and Surprise Attack: Failure and Success from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and Beyond,” 21-year naval intelligence veteran Dr. Erik Dahl highlights the importance of the intelligence...
Learn moreCyber Triage 2.14.3 Upload DFIR Artifacts to S3 Using Temporary Credentials
S3 buckets are an increasingly common way to get DFIR data from one site to another. Our latest Cyber Triage release allows you to use temporary credentials with an S3...
Learn moreCyber Triage 2.14.2 Adds Features Based on SolarWinds Orion Incident
Our latest Cyber Triage release has a few DFIR features that came directly from customer requests while they hunted around their environments for signs of SolarWinds-based incidents. This post covers...
Learn moreHow to Get Your Data & Services Back Online: Ransomware Recovery 2021
In this post, we are going to show you what role the DFIR team can play to get data and services back online after a ransomware attack. This is the...
Learn moreHow to Beat Ransomware in 2021: Key Questions that Make or Break Your Response
Ransomware is everywhere these days, and we want to help DFIR investigators take a methodical approach to responding to an attack. In this post, we’re going to talk about briefly...
Learn moreThe Top NLP Mistake Made by Data Scientists
When the conclusions seem “off,” is it bad data science or faulty NLP? By Dan Maxwell Download Whitepaper Executive Summary In the age of big data, high-quality results from natural...
Learn more#OSDFCon 2020, One for the Record Books
While many events were feeling downsized and forlorn with having to go virtual, the Open Source Digital Forensics Conference this year was a huge success — the largest virtual event...
Learn moreAutopsy 4.17 Highlights (Summary, iLEAPP, & HEIC)
Autopsy 4.17 is out with a long list of changes. Let’s cover a few new things that were introduced. You’ll notice a common theme that these were incrementally released with...
Learn moreCyber Triage 2.14: Upload Your DFIR Artifacts to S3
The major theme of the Cyber Triage 2.14 release was making it easier to get artifacts from remote systems. To that end, the collection tool can now: Directly upload the...
Learn moreChris Brown on Captivated Audience: A Financial Crime Podcast
AML Innovators: Computational linguistics, sematic similarities and name/text screening – Chris Brown, VP International Basis Technology (UK). Chris Brown, VP International Basis Technology chats with Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen...
Learn moreAutopsy 4.16 Release Highlights
Autopsy 4.16.0 is out and has a lot of new enhancements and fixes. You can see the detailed list and get the downloads from here. This blog highlights a few...
Learn moreCyber Triage 2.13.1: Feedback-Driven Upgrades (See, We Listen!)
It’s been quite a summer! On top of managing the COVID world, our engineering team has been both satisfying customer requests & ripping the internals of Cyber Triage to make...
Learn moreRosette 1.17.0 Release: Hebrew Name Translation, French Semantic Similarity, Robust Address Matching
Recent Rosette® Cloud and Enterprise releases (1.17.0, 1.16.1) bring expanded language coverage to name translation and semantic similarity, and ease of use to the address matching capability within Rosette Name...
Learn moreBuilding a More Useful Hebrew Transliteration Scheme
When the Rosette® Name Translator team set out to build a Hebrew-to-Latin character translator, one of the first considerations was: Which transliteration standard should we use? As the joke goes,...
Learn moreFaster Annotation with Rosette Adaptation Studio
What are the top three barriers to better machine learning models? Annotating data, annotating data, and annotating data. Okay, so it’s not that simple, but producing quality training data to...
Learn moreSITA Selects Basis Technology to Power Contact Tracing of Infections Crossing Borders
As the world travels again, an airline industry-owned tech company develops a solution for contact tracers to quickly find, notify potentially exposed air travelers CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (July 28, 2020) —...
Learn moreCyber Triage 2.13: Offline Malware Scanning Now Available
We love customer feedback and the Cyber Triage 2.13 release is all about solving challenges brought to us by our users. The first challenge is how to interface with malware...
Learn moreWelcome to Being Human, X Æ A-12
Elon Musk’s Son X Æ A-12, Presents the Ultimate Name Matching Challenge The naming of a child is an intrinsically human activity. Your parents get the first crack at it,...
Learn moreLucidworks Announces Advanced Linguistics Package to Improve Search Precision for Global Companies Serving Asian, European, and Middle Eastern Markets
Lucidworks Now Embeds Text Analytics From Basis Technology, Enabling Global Lucidworks Fusion Customers to Provide a More Personalized Digital Experience Tuesday, May 27th (San Francisco, CA) — Today Lucidworks, leader...
Learn moreAI and NLP Leaders Basis Technology and Saltlux Announce Partnership
Joint projects include Korean government R&D on semantic networks, natural language understanding CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (May 18, 2020) – AI and machine learning solution providers Saltlux and Basis Technology are pleased...
Learn moreAutopsy 4.15 Release Highlights
Autopsy 4.15 is out and we wanted to cover some of the key new features. You can download Autopsy from here and see the full list of changes here. Central...
Learn moreFree Autopsy Digital Forensics Training Available for U.S. Law Enforcement
New Online Course from Basis Technology Empowers All Levels of Law Enforcement to Build Court-Admissible Cybercrime Cases Using Free, Open Source Software. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 9, 2020 — Americans rely...
Learn moreA Day in the Life of… Building a New Entity Extraction Model
What does it take to build a real production-ready model for entity extraction in one language? Here’s a peek through the eyes of our linguistic data engineer. Swedish model building...
Learn moreHow to Execute During Incident Response: OODA for DFIR 2020
We’re at the final post in our OODA and endpoint triage series where we’ve been talking about using the OODA loop during the investigative process. It’s time to execute (or...
Learn moreCyber Triage 2.12: Online File Reputation Service is Released
We are happy to introduce the new Cyber Triage Online File Reputation Service that reduces the configuration overhead for our users and gives them more information about collected files. This...
Learn moreCoronavirus (COVID-19): Response
To our worldwide community, The rapid spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) is impacting all of us. We stand with you in monitoring the situation and trying to do what is best...
Learn morePolySwarm provides latest enhancement to Basis Technology’s incident response solution, Cyber Triage™
PolySwarm, a threat intelligence and detection marketplace for identifying new and emergent malware, will now be used by Cyber Triage™, a tool for rapid incident response by technology company Basis...
Learn moreHow to Make Data-Based Decisions During Incident Response: OODA for DFIR 2020
We’re on post #4 of our OODA and endpoint triage series, and it’s time to talk about how to make data-based decisions during incident response. I was reminded by the...
Learn moreMake Your Choice: It’s More Than a Score for Evaluating NLP
Part 3 of Evaluating Natural Language Processing for Named Entity Recognition in Six Steps Just as standardized test scores alone cannot prove that an applicant will be successful in a...
Learn moreEvaluating NLP: Annotating Evaluation Data and Scoring Results
Part 2 of Evaluating Natural Language Processing for Named Entity Recognition in Six Steps In our previous blog post, we discussed the importance of defining your requirements for your NLP...
Learn moreEvaluating NLP: Assembling a Test Dataset
Part 1 of Evaluating Natural Language Processing for Named Entity Recognition in Six Steps How do you know if a given natural language package will do what you need? How...
Learn moreHow to Orient During the Incident Response Process: OODA for DFIR 2020
In this post, you’ll learn how to approach the “Orient” phase of OODA during your incident response process. This post continues the one from 2 weeks ago on the “Observe”...
Learn moreAutopsy 4.14 Release Highlights
This blog summarizes some of the highlights of the latest Autopsy release. It’s a new format to give you a summary of the most important changes. The full list of...
Learn moreHow to Observe During the Incident Response Process: OODA for DFIR 2020
The holidays are over, we’ve caught up on our work, and it’s time to reload the concept of the endpoint triage OODA loop back into our brains. In this post,...
Learn moreVersion 2.11 Features: Investigation History, Timeline Filtering, and More!
Cyber Triage has two sets of users and we do our best to make them both happy (even though they want different features). The most recent 2.11 release focused on...
Learn moreDeep Learning Brings Fuzzy English-to-Japanese Name Matching Into Focus
Matching thousands of Latin-based names to their Japanese equivalent is a very specific and troublesome problem. It is one of many “edge cases” (i.e., a specific name matching problem) our...
Learn moreOur Chief Scientist presents at AI Week in Tel Aviv
Dr. Kfir Bar presented his speech at AI Week, AI in Any Language: Using Deep Learning to Build Truly Global Named Entity...
Learn morePart 2 of Steve Cohens ACAMS Today article releases.
How AI-Driven Social Media Monitoring for AML Works: Part...
Learn moreSteve Cohen writes another awesome ACAMS Today Article
A Real-Life Blueprint on AI for Sanctions...
Learn moreHow to Use OODA Loop in Your Incident Response Process in 2020
In this post, we’ll cover a unique approach to applying the principles of OODA loop to your incident response process. In the Intro to DFIR series, we talked about specific...
Learn moreWelcome to OFAC Compliance, Apple
Name matching failure results in $467,000 fine and delivers a wake-up call for all companies Once upon a time, it seemed only banks and border security had to worry about...
Learn moreCyber Triage 2.10 Features: Visualization, Exporting, and More
Cyber Triage 2.10 came out last month right before our workshop at OSDFCon, and we wanted to highlight a few user-requested features (recommendation engine visualization, flagging unseen files, and CSV...
Learn moreIntroducing Smart Name Matching for Addresses
Rosette now offers smart matching for person names, addresses, and dates Astaire Avenue, Garland Drive, Lamarr Avenue, Skelton Circle, and Hepburn Circle are real street names in Culver City, CA,...
Learn moreHow to Detect System Configuration Changes – Intro to Incident Response Triage (Part 9) in 2019
This post outlines how you can identify system configuration changes that were made by an intruder during an incident response investigation. We were on a roll with this Intro to...
Learn moreKMWorld Magazine references Basis Tech
Sue Feldman from KMworld magazine references Steve Cohen and other members of the panel recently held at DBTA’s Data summit, in her article about Ethical Issues in AI and Cognitive...
Learn moreSteve Cohen on NASDAQ Trade talks with Jill Malandrino
Steve Cohen talks about how AI built for mission critical applications are making it into...
Learn moreHow to Detect Malware Remnants – Intro to Incident Response Triage (Part 8) in 2019
In this post, we are going to review how to detect malware remnants during an incident response investigation. A fundamental step in any DFIR triage scenario is to determine if...
Learn moreWhat’s in a Persian Name?
How Persian names are composed from history, social class, religious affiliation, and geographic origins This month we have a special blog post by computational linguist and NLP engineer Zina Saadi....
Learn moreHow to Detect Running Malware – Intro to Incident Response Triage (Part 7)
Finding evidence of running malware is critical in DFIR, and this 7th post in my “Intro to Incident Response” series focuses on that. We’re going to cover how malicious code...
Learn moreRosette 1.14 Release: Entity linking to Thomson Reuters PermID, Multi-model language identification
The August release of Rosette 1.14 brings new features to entity extraction and linking, as well as language identification. Roadmap for linking entities to multiple knowledge bases In addition to...
Learn moreIncident Response Recommendation Engine: “You may like this process based on your interest in this file”
We’ve gotten used to websites suggesting products based on our past purchases and browsing habits. Now, your DFIR tool can do the same (well, it will recommend artifacts and not...
Learn moreSecurity Boulevard references Cyber Triage Blog
Great piece by Tony Kontzer from Security Boulevard about the importance of speed in digital forensics and Incident Response. He references our own Cyber Triage Blog on the same subject....
Learn moreSteve Cohen’s Latest Piece for ACAMS Today
Steve Cohen released his latest article for ACAMS Today alongside Glen Dinetz of eClerx, titled “AI in AML: State of Innovation...
Learn moreWhat’s the Difference Between Entity Extraction (NER) and Entity Resolution?
Entity extraction, or named entity recognition (NER), is finding mentions of key “things” (aka “entities”) such as people, places, organizations, dates, and time within text. Entity mentions are the words...
Learn moreCross-Lingual Search Based on Concepts and Meaning
We’ve recently released this whitepaper which explores a new way to solve cross-lingual semantic search. Rather than use machine translation to translate queries or search records, this approach delivers better...
Learn moreJeanne Le Garrec’s interview by French Tech Singapore about Women In Tech
Le Garrec talks all about NLP, text data analytics, deep tech and the work she is currently doing in...
Learn moreBasis Technology Brings Deep Search to Salesforce
Basis Technology acquires KonaSearch to provide millions of Salesforce users access to AI-driven...
Learn moreSteve Cohen’s article “The Problem with Magic” Released on FactSet Insight.
Steve Cohen’s article about AI, NLP, financial services, and AML is available on FactSet...
Learn moreCarl Hoffman on NELTP Conference Privacy Panel
Carl Hoffman got the opportunity to be on the Privacy Panel at the NELTP Connect Conference, where he joined other industry experts to discuss emerging trends in litigation...
Learn moreSteve Cohen writes a piece on NLP, words, and identity for ACAMS Today
Steve Cohen’s piece “Impossible Evidence: Words, Identity, and AI” explores the story of Kadiza Sultana, NLP, and...
Learn moreSteve Cohen stops by CSI’s Fintech Focus Podcast
Steve Cohen explains the difference between AI and Machine Learning, how computers learned to understand human language, and why finance needs NLP all on episode 16 of Fintech...
Learn moreGetting Data Into the Communications UI
As part of our work with DHS S&T, we added some new features last year into Autopsy around storing and displaying messaging-based data. You could always store messages and contact...
Learn moreYou Say Jamāl, He Writes Djamel: Influences on Western Transliteration of Arabic Names
When it comes to name searching and matching, each language poses its own unique challenges. Arabic is one of the most complex languages for name-matching applications to analyze. This article...
Learn moreHow Data Annotation Works: Inside NLP and Search, Part IV
Interested search technology—or AI generally? Over the next four weeks, we’re going to take an in-depth (and interesting!) look at the technology that makes modern search tick. This week, we’re...
Learn moreWhy Data & Data Annotation Make or Break AI: Inside NLP and Search, Part III
Interested search technology—or AI generally? Over the next four weeks, we’re going to take an in-depth (and interesting!) look at the technology that makes modern search tick. Today we’re digging...
Learn moreHow AI Will Transform RegTech: An Interview with David Schwartz
Ahead of the Florida International Bankers Association’s (FIBA) AML Compliance Conference next week in Miami, Basis Technology decided to interview David Schwartz, President & CEO of the association. From the...
Learn moreThree Ways to Tackle the Black Box Problem: Getting AI to Comply Series, Part XI
This fall, we’re sharing a series of blog posts exploring AI’s impact on highly regulated industries and the major compliance barrier that stands in the way: the “black box” problem....
Learn moreTransparency Isn’t Enough: Getting AI to Comply Series, Part X
This fall, we’re sharing a series of blog posts exploring AI’s impact on highly regulated industries and the major compliance barrier that stands in the way: the “black box” problem....
Learn moreUnderstanding Explainable AI: Getting AI to Comply Series, Part IX
This fall, we’re sharing a series of blog posts exploring AI’s impact on highly regulated industries and the major compliance barrier that stands in the way: the “black box” problem....
Learn moreThe Clash of Regulation and Innovation: Getting AI to Comply Series, Part VIII
This fall, we’re sharing a series of blog posts exploring AI’s impact on highly regulated industries and the major compliance barrier that stands in the way: the “black box” problem....
Learn moreRegulation, Technology, & Financial Crime’s Arms Race: Getting AI to Comply Series, Part VII
This fall, we’re sharing a series of blog posts exploring AI’s impact on highly regulated industries and the major compliance barrier that stands in the way: the “black box” problem....
Learn moreAI’s Biggest Integration Hurdles: Getting AI to Comply Series, Part VI
This fall, we’re sharing a series of blog posts exploring AI’s impact on highly regulated industries and the major compliance barrier that stands in the way: the “black box” problem....
Learn moreAI’s Biggest Compliance Problems: Getting AI to Comply Series, Part V
This fall, we’re sharing a series of blog posts exploring AI’s impact on highly regulated industries and the major compliance barrier that stands in the way: the “black box” problem....
Learn moreCyber Security’s White Knight: Getting AI to Comply Series, Part IV
This fall, we’re sharing a series of blog posts exploring AI’s impact on highly regulated industries and the major compliance barrier that stands in the way: the “black box” problem....
Learn moreNever Search Again: Getting AI to Comply Series, Part III
This fall, we’re sharing a series of blog posts exploring AI’s impact on highly regulated industries and the major compliance barrier that stands in the way: the “black box” problem....
Learn moreThe Essential AI Value Prop: Getting AI to Comply Series, Part II
This fall, we’re sharing a series of blog posts exploring AI’s impact on highly regulated industries and the major compliance barrier that stands in the way: the “black box” problem....
Learn moreWhat Is AI? Complex Technology in Plain English: Getting AI to Comply Series, Part I
This fall, we’re sharing a series of blog posts exploring AI’s impact on highly regulated industries and the major compliance barrier that stands in the way: the “black box” problem....
Learn moreAn Honest Guy on AI IV: Entity Resolution, Pragmatism, and the “Black Box” Problem
If you have a low tolerance for buzzwords, you’re in the right place. This interview with Carlos Azeglio, Basis Technology’s senior product manager, gives an insider’s perspective on AI and...
Learn moreData Source-level Focus in Large Cases
The 4.8.0 release of Autopsy is out and the major themes in the release are: Focus on data source-level review in large cases Keyword search accuracy improvements Tagging efficiencies Plus...
Learn moreAn Honest Guy on AI, Part III: NLP, Finance, and Risk
Financial institutions, historically, have had enough to worry about. With new technology disrupting the industry at an exponential rate, and more variables coming into play constantly, what FIs need is...
Learn moreAn Honest Guy on AI, Part II: AI, Hype, and Risk Technology
If you have a low tolerance for buzzwords, you’re in the right place. This interview with Basis Technology VP of Product Chris Mack gives an insider’s perspective on AI and...
Learn moreAn Honest Guy on AI: Limitations and Applications of AI for Risk
If you have a low tolerance for buzzwords, you’re in the right place. This interview with Basis Technology COO Steve Cohen gives an insider’s perspective on AI and its impact...
Learn moreBeating the Market: How to Evaluate AI
Over the course of the past month, we’ve shared a series of blog posts telling you everything you need to know about leveraging AI technology for finance and risk. Missed...
Learn moreWhat Can AI Do for Risk Technology Today?
AI doesn’t have to be capable of half of what’s been promised to make a significant impact on risk technology. You don’t need 1000 machine learning specialists; you don’t need...
Learn moreAutopsy 4.7 Includes Link Analysis, Database Viewers, Triage, and More
With the latest Autopsy release, you have access to many new features and fixes. This post will give a high-level overview of the notable ones. Communications: The previous 4.6.0 release...
Learn moreThe State of Risk Technology
Financial institutions (FIs) are a cornerstone of economic and societal stability, but their size and complexity make it difficult for them to change with markets and technologies. FIs host vast...
Learn moreThe AI Hype Machine: Part II
This spring, we’re sharing a series of blog posts exploring where AI technology delivers on its promises and where it fails to live up to the hype, especially as it...
Learn moreAutopsy 4.6 Includes New Communications Viewers, Encryption Detection, and More.
The latest release (4.6.0) of Autopsy introduces many new features and fixes and this post will give a high-level overview of the notable ones. We’ll dive into details in the...
Learn moreCorrelate Cases and Get Intelligence
Overview Starting with Autopsy 4.5.0, you can now determine when a file or phone number (or other artifact) was seen in a previous case. You can also be alerted when...
Learn moreTriage Media With Autopsy 4.4.0
With the new Autopsy 4.4.0 release, we introduced some new triage features that help you more quickly answer some questions about a hard drive or smart phone. The goal of...
Learn moreAutopsy 4.1.0 Release
Autopsy 4.1.0 has been released after a long drought. So, it has a longer list of features than usual. You can download it from sleuthkit.org. Here is a quick summary...
Learn moreCollaborative Autopsy: How It Works
At OSDFCon this year, we launched a new version of Autopsy with a number of collaboration features. The fundamental interface and end use of Autopsy hasn’t changed with the new...
Learn moreCollaborate on Cases with Autopsy 4.0
At the Open Source Digital Forensics Conference last week, we announced the launch of Autopsy 4.0, the free and open source digital forensics platform that now adds major features promoting...
Learn moreThe Volatility team talks proactive threat hunting with memory forensics (an OSDFCon presentation)
Our final OSDFCon blog series featured speaker is actually a collective: the team behind the nonprofit Volatility Foundation. This year, memory forensics has evolved once more, and the Volatility team...
Learn moreThe advantages of cloud computing for forensic analysis (an OSDFCon presentation)
Google team members are back on our blog this week for another installment of our blog series on the speakers and topics we’re offering at OSDFCon this coming October. This...
Learn moreA case study in new generation timeline tools (an OSDFCon presentation)
This week’s featured speaker in our OSDFCon blog series is Daniel White, a security engineer at Google. Daniel is offering both a lecture at OSDFCon and a half-day workshop the...
Learn morePython Autopsy Module Tutorial #3: The Report Module
It’s time for the final Python tutorial in this series and just in time to give you a chance to write something for the OSDFCon Autopsy Module Competition. In our...
Learn moreIntroducing SQUID: Don’t miss evidence because the app updated! (an OSDFCon presentation)
This week we continue our blog series covering the speakers and topics we’re offering at OSDFCon in Herndon this coming October. Ryan Benson, a digital forensic examiner at Stroz Friedberg’s...
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