Since it unceremoniously dumped its Twitter monitoring product BlueJay for law enforcement in 2016, BrightPlanet has remodeled itself as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of Deep Web content and global Newsfeeds for a broader marketplace including commercial enterprises. This updated suite is re-cast as tools designed to help financial institutions and other businesses … [Read more...]
Sovereign Intelligence and Sixgill: Applying AI to Dark Web Analytics
C5IS explores the merits of Sovereign Intelligence and Sixgill, pioneers in deploying deep learning and AI for Dark Web Analytics. With the Deep Web and Dark Web comprising some 90 percent of the Internet, the trick of finding the right data to monitor and analyze for "actionable intelligence" is half the challenge. Equally daunting: automating the process so that alerts are … [Read more...]
DARPA Memex and the Hunt for Deep or Dark Web Intelligence
The teaming of companies such as Diffeo, Uncharted Software and Hyperion Gray in the DARPA Memex partnership program has spurred major advances in alternative search technologies, making it possible to range all over the Web, including the Deep and the Dark portions. Without question, the types of information now available through Memex-inspired search capabilities far … [Read more...]
Kofax Deep Web Harvesting: Still Going Strong Under Lexmark
Partnership with Palantir gives Kofax Deep Web Harvesting an important edge: detailed visualization. When Lexmark completed its acquisition of Kofax in May 2015, no public mention was made of Kofax Deep Web Harvesting, an invaluable OSINT tool used by military, government and law enforcement agencies worldwide. But rest assured that Lexmark’s acquired OSINT asset is alive, … [Read more...]