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Regulation, 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 moreRosette Cloud 1.12: New Languages for Entity Linking, Better Korean Named Entity Extraction, and Delivery via Docker!
We’re thrilled to announce the latest version of Rosette (1.12). This release features many exciting updates to our text analytics platform, including expanded language coverage, better accuracy, as well as...
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 moreCyber Triage and Demisto Enterprise Are Simplifying and Automating Incident Response
Combining Agentless Investigation with Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) Accelerates Response Time BOSTON and CUPERTINO, Calif., Dec. 3, 2018 — Cyber Triage, simplified incident response, announced a product integration with Demisto, a leader in Security...
Learn moreDemisto Integration Provides Faster Responses for Cyber Triage Users
Cyber Triage users now have another option when looking for Security Orchestration and Automation Response (SOAR) solutions because Demisto can now launch a Cyber Triage investigation. Orchestration solutions allow companies...
Learn moreSteve Cohen on Nasdaq’s Trade Talks
Filmed at Times Square, Basis Technology COO Steve Cohen talks AI, Finance, and the “Black Box” problem with Nasdaq’s Jill...
Learn moreRobust Use of PsExec That Doesn’t Reveal Password Hashes
Cyber Triage is an agentless incident response system and one of the methods that we use to get data from a compromised endpoint is to send our collection tool out...
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 moreArticle by Steve Cohen Featured on the Cover of ACAMS Today
“The Artificial Intelligence Revolution Is Coming…,” an article by Basis Technology COO Steve Cohen, was featured on the cover of ACAMS Today‘s quarterly print edition. Focusing on AML processes, the article...
Learn moreInnovators and Regulators Collaborate on Book Tackling AI’s Black Box Problem
New Book Offers Solutions to AI’s Biggest Compliance Hurdle BOSTON, Oct. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Basis Technology, the leading provider of AI-powered solutions for multilingual text analytics, has produced a...
Learn moreGengo Surpasses One Billion Words After Adding AI Data Services to Its Translation Platform
Demand for high volumes of well-annotated multilingual training data accelerates as businesses ramp up development of AI and machine-learning...
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 moreRosette Cloud 1.11: New Entity Types, Hungarian Names, and Cross Language Semantics
We’re thrilled to announce the latest version of Rosette (1.11). It’s a big one — lots of exciting new features, enhancements, and improvements. We hope you’ll check it out! TL;...
Learn moreAlex Detmering of Basis Technology on The Honest Guide to AI for Risk
An ODSC interview with Basis Technology’s Alex Detmering on AI, finance, and risk...
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 moreThe Future of Natural Language Processing
A quick interview by Rebellion Research with our own Carl Hoffman and Alex Detmering on the future of Natural Language Processing...
Learn moreYour AI Cheat Sheet: Key Concepts in Common Sense Terms
Today, it is important for everyone in the business of data analysis and decision-making to have a firm understanding of core ideas and terminology of AI technology....
Learn moreThe Most Effective Entity Extraction Techniques
A hybrid of entity extraction methods to compensate for various strengths and weaknesses Just as you would never use a screwdriver to insert a nail, each type of entity is...
Learn moreIt’s About Time(lines)!
Using timestamps to determine what happened before or after an event is vital when investigating your endpoints. Timestamps allow you to see what programs were run or websites visited...
Learn moreNICE Nexidia Adds Rosette Text Analytics to Enhance Search Speeds
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 26, 2018 — Basis Technology today announced that NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) is integrating Rosette® text analytics in Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish...
Learn moreAnalyzing Thai Names: Superstition, History, and Foreign Influence
Names are inherently complex to analyze, match, and resolve in any language, but Thai names in particular are uniquely challenging to understand and match. Naming conventions in Thailand have a...
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 moreAmazon Is Banking on Unbundling: Five Takeaways from Future of Fintech
CB Insights’ Future of Fintech conference was a star-studded event. Built around “fireside chats” with the industry’s leading minds, the conference had a uniquely intimate atmosphere. For those who couldn’t...
Learn moreWhat Does It Mean to Support “Persian” Text Analytics
What about Farsi, Dari, and Tajik? The modern Persian language has a lengthy history, with spoken roots going back 4,000-5,000 years. Since then, the language has evolved enormously in response...
Learn moreThe Difficulty of Persian Sentiment Analysis
Political and linguistic challenges to accessing Persian data Persian sentiment analysis debuted in Rosette 1.10.1. This new feature joins Rosette’s array of Persian text analytics for base linguistics, entity extraction,...
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 moreProvide Live Feedback to Your Entity Linking Knowledge Bases
Rosette Entity Linking adds real-time, human-in-the-loop feature to entity linking databases While entity extraction provides the foundation of data mining and information extraction systems, extracted entities only have limited value...
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 moreSearching, matching, and analyzing Greek names
What to do when it seems like every man in Greece is named Giorgos Papadopoulos? Greek names are getting more attention these days as more Greek citizens bank internationally. Why?...
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 moreUsing Volatility in Cyber Triage to Analyze Memory
Sometimes the only evidence on an intrusion is in memory and not on disk. In these cases, memory forensics provides crucial evidence to your investigation. Cyber Triage now integrates with...
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 moreEight Languages Added to Rosette 1.10.0
Match and translate Greek names • Extract sentiment from Persian text Rosette text analytics enables users to extract value from unstructured text. All of our capabilities are engineered with a...
Learn moreThe AI Hype Machine: Part I
Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming a deeply public, visible phenomenon. Insights from this field have already made their way into almost every facet of our lives, but they’ve done...
Learn moreHappy Birthday, Soundex!
Honoring the 100th anniversary of the first phonetic name matching patent One hundred years ago on April 12, 1918, the patent for Soundex, the first phonetic name matching system, was...
Learn moreThe Balancing Act of Security vs. Privacy
Know Identity Conference panelists explore the future of identity verification and digital trustworthiness March 26-28, five identity experts will discuss the state of identity technology in a panel moderated by...
Learn moreThe Shape of Identity Technology
Know Identity Conference panelists explain what identity means in a digital world Identity is a word we use to talk about the physical entities behind something: real-world people, places, and...
Learn moreSearch For Advanced Malware In Cyber Triage Using Yara Rules
You can now use Yara signatures in Cyber Triage to search endpoints for new or advanced malware during incident response. Yara allows malware researchers to define binary patterns that can...
Learn moreMeet the Know Identity Panelists
Basis Technology brings together digital identity experts for a panel at the Know Identity Conference, March 26th Next week the Know Identity Conference in Washington D.C. will bring together thought...
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 moreCyber Triage Partners with PolySwarm to Connect First Responders with Pioneering Cybersecurity Marketplace
Partners collaborate to combine automation with a decentralized marketplace of expert analysts to detect and deter malware and cyber security breaches BOSTON, MA / SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO — FEBRUARY...
Learn moreUnderstanding the Difference Between Open and Targeted Relationship Extraction
Who’s in your data, and how are they connected? You may have heard about relationship extraction and wondered what this NLP innovation is. Relationship extraction is the automated detection and...
Learn moreIntegrate with Splunk for Faster Alert Triage
With the 2.1.10 Cyber Triage release, you can now integrate with Splunk. This allows you to remotely start collections about suspicious endpoints and bring the results back to Splunk for...
Learn moreBasis Technology Announces Chief Scientist To Lead NLP Research and Development
Basis Technology is pleased to announce that Dr. Kfir Bar has joined the leadership team as Chief Scientist. As Chief Scientist, he will lead the company’s R&D efforts to break...
Learn moreRosette Cloud 1.9: More Languages, Higher Accuracy, and Deep Neural Nets
Rosette Cloud 1.9 is out, delivering a new language for name matching, translation, and deduplication: Thai. We’ve also added a new deep neural network model for sentiment analysis, entity extraction...
Learn moreBasis Technology Rolls Out the Red Carpet To Tokyo for Partner Startups
CAMBRIDGE, MA, Nov. 14th — This October, Basis Technology showcased eighteen startup and partners in Tokyo under our Big Data Analytics Tokyo (BDAT) umbrella. Fifteen speakers hailing from the U.S.,...
Learn morePhantom Integration Allows for Faster Responses
The Cyber Triage team likes to build stuff around themes and one of our current themes is about integrations. It has been a growing feature request. This blog post talks...
Learn moreSnapshot: S&T is Enhancing the Autopsy Digital Forensics Tool
Autopsy—an open-source, digital forensics platform used by law enforcement agencies worldwide to determine how a digital device was used in a crime and recover evidence—is being enhanced with the addition...
Learn moreAn Overview of Fuzzy Name Matching Techniques
Methods of name matching and their respective strengths and weaknesses In a structured database, names are often treated the same as metadata for some other field like an email, phone...
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 moreA Smarter Approach to Linguistic Comparison and Word Clouds
New community recipe enables vocabulary comparison and word cloud generation Every individual has a unique way of speaking and writing based upon their experiences, personal style, and culture. For the...
Learn moreJust the Important Entities, Please
Salience scores and linking confidence scores for extracted entities come to Rosette Cloud Data scraped from the web is often very noisy and cumbersome to work with. Sorting through it...
Learn moreMore Changes To Make Your Response Faster
Time is critical during incident response. Every minute you have an attacker roaming around your network can compromise valuable information and do irreparable damage to your systems. The latest Cyber...
Learn moreBig Data Analytics Tokyo and ILS Introduce Boston-Area AI Startups to Japan
Eighteen startups head to Tokyo for “Power Matching” meetings with 100+ major Japanese corporations CAMBRIDGE, MA—October 17, 2017—Big Data Analytics Tokyo (BDAT) is bringing 18 startups from the U.S. to...
Learn morePrecognox partners with Basis Technology to deliver next-gen text analytics in Europe
Precognox joins Basis Technology’s Partner Program as a system integrator for Rosette Text...
Learn moreAnalytics Make User Account Investigations Easier
When investigating an endpoint you need to look at user activity in addition to malware and system change indicators. Cyber Triage now provides analytics about user login behavior and activity....
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 moreIntro to IR Triage (Part 2): Analysis Categories
In the 2nd post in our Intro to IR Triage series, we’re going to take a big picture view. I want to give you the roadmap of how we are...
Learn moreIntro to IR Triage (Part 1): Buyer’s Guide
Part 1: Host Triage Tool Buyer’s Guide I often encounter companies who are starting to think more formally about incident response and how to properly deal with incidents. To help them with...
Learn moreGet Free Incident Response Software
Organizations need to be able to respond to alerts and investigate their computers, but not every organization has an incident response budget or dedicated personnel. The newly released Cyber Triage...
Learn moreCyber Triage Has a New Look
Cyber Triage 2.0 has been released with a new user interface and can be used for free (with a reduced feature set). The new UI allows you to make better...
Learn moreConfident, trustworthy and scalable: Amazon Web Services and Rosette API create partnership
Since Rosette API, our cloud-based text analytics service, launched in April 2016, users and customers have been eager to try it out. However, like any smart API buyer, you might...
Learn moreBasis Technology releases a free Cyber Triage version at RSA
Allows even the smallest IT departments to properly investigate their computers for cyber attacks CAMBRIDGE, MA—February 9, 2017— Basis Technology, the leader in open source digital forensics, announced today that...
Learn moreTrustServista Exposes Fake News With Text Analytics by Rosette
Startup Zetta Cloud traces back news articles, identifying those “contaminated” by erroneous news sources CAMBRIDGE, MA—January 31, 2017— Basis Technology, the leader in AI for human language, announced today that...
Learn moreCambridge-Based Artificial Intelligence Companies Look to Japan
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Jan. 24, 2017 — Leaders from several Boston-area tech startups will travel to Tokyo to expand and promote business ties next month. They will be speaking at the...
Learn moreExposing More Data to Save Time
The new Cyber Triage release allows you to better understand the impact of a threat. Now, you can automatically see what registry keys reference a file with malware, what processes...
Learn moreEarly Registration Opens for Big Data Analytics Tokyo
Event explores applications of data analytics and data science to the business world, Feb. 7-8, 2017 CAMBRIDGE, MA—December 10, 2016—Basis Technology, the leader in multilingual text analytics, today announced the...
Learn moreFinding Suspicious Program Activity
The 1.6.1 release of Cyber Triage added a new automated analysis technique to make the life of an incident responder easier and more efficient. The new technique focuses on the...
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 moreDig Deeper: Find More IOCs and Fast Flux Domains
Find more evidence on an endpoint with the latest Cyber Triage release. Last week’s 1.6.0 release expands on Cyber Triage’s thoroughness and ease of use. We’ll talk about two new...
Learn moreAutomating Incident Response: Setting the Stage
Overview Many companies want to improve their incident response capabilities and make them more effecient. Automation is often touted as way to improve the response times, but what does automation (or orchestration)...
Learn moreMaturing towards Team-Based Incident Response
In our last blog post, we talked about how, as an organization’s security posture matures (often along with the organization itself), its strategy starts to move beyond prevention to focus...
Learn moreMake Better Use of IDS Alerts for Incident Response
If your organization’s security posture is maturing beyond prevention and beginning to focus on detection, you may find yourself evaluating a host of new security technologies. Among the most attractive...
Learn moreCan DIY Incident Response Scale?
If you’ve ever purchased a house or vehicle, you may also, as many people do, have gone to the local hardware store to buy a starter kit of tools. You...
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...
Learn moreA plugin that overcomes the limits of traditional blacklist file-hash comparisons (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. Michael McCarrin and Bruce Allen, Research Associates at the...
Learn moreInferring Past Activity from Partial Digital Artifacts (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. Jim Jones, Associate Professor of Computer Forensics and Cybersecurity...
Learn moreOpen Source Live Data Collection for Incident Response (an OSDFCon presentation)
With this year’s topics and speakers now lined up for OSDFCon, we thought we’d take the time to highlight each speaker’s work that led them to join us in Herndon,...
Learn morePython Autopsy Module Tutorial #2: The Data Source Ingest Module
In our last blog post, we built a basic Python Autopsy module that looked for big and round files. In our second post in the Autopsy: Python Module Series, we’re...
Learn morePython Autopsy Module Tutorial #1: The File Ingest Module
There is still plenty of time to work on an Autopsy module that will get you cash prizes (and bragging rights) from Basis Technology at OSDFCon 2015. The easiest way for most people to write...
Learn moreBasis Technology Enhances Digital Media Investigations With Autopsy 3.1
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 26, 2014 — Basis Technology, the global leader in multilingual Big Text analytics and digital forensics solutions, today announced the availability of Autopsy 3.1, the latest version...
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