VEGA Consulting Services Ltd (VEGA), a Finmeccanica company, and Del are collaborating to provide a digital forensics solution to UK police forces.
To support UK Police forensic laboratories, VEGA and Dell have come together to develop a scalable and secure solution, comprising commercial off the shelf (COTS) equipment, that helps meet the increasingly demanding digital forensics challenge for police.
The new digital forensics enables teams of analysts to concurrently and securely investigate ever increasing amounts of suspect data within reduced timescales. This is made possible by their ability to ingest, index, analyse and archive data via multiple workstations, across networked file servers. To ensure the integrity of the information, the solution runs forensic tools as secure ring-fenced sessions on analyst workstations, protecting them from the effects of malicious code.
The digital forensics solution was launched by Dell and VEGA at ACPO-APA International Policing Exhibition and Summer Conference in July in Manchester.
VEGA General Manager, Paul MacGregor, said: “We are excited to be working alongside Dell in an effort to improve the efficiency and capability of the UK’s law enforcement agencies. VEGA has a proven track record of devising secure systems for some of the most sensitive areas of UK Government and its armed forces. This experience has enabled us to help Dell create a digital forensics solution that complies with HMG Security Policy Framework, as well as JSP440. Furthermore, VEGA has ensured that the security measures encoded in the solution do not interfere with the system performance or user operations.”
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