Published on October 7th, 2021 | by Dr. Cemal Dikmen
Just a tiny fraction of cryptocurrency transactions are related to criminal activity, but they are still a critical mechanism for payment associated with crimes that range from human and drug trafficking to terrorism and ransomware. Cryptocurrency transactions associated with criminal…
Published on August 4th, 2021 | by Dr. Keith Bhatia & Syed Hussain
Most telecommunications carriers operate equipment from different generations of technology, and often have multiple vendor environment. Carriers can accrete these layers over time, as their networks transition from 2G to 3G to 4G and now to 5G. This same accumulation…
Published on July 20th, 2021 | by Dr. Keith Bhatia & Syed Hussain
As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) become more common, they are of growing interest to law enforcement agencies (LEAs). Drones have been widely adopted as part of the investigative arsenal for surveillance, monitoring, and intelligence, broadening capabilities for gathering evidence and…
Published on July 8th, 2021 | by Kevin Isacks & Jonathan Fong
As 5G networks roll out across the world, law enforcement agencies (LEAs) are being forced to reimagine investigation methods related to lawful intelligence. The types of data that traverse public networks—from the Internet of Things to virtual and augmented reality—offer…
Published on June 24th, 2021 | by Kevin Isacks & Jonathan Fong
The metadata that surrounds the data payloads for lawful intelligence intercepts has become as important as the payload data itself. Location data, for example, can place a subject of interest at specific places and times to reveal personal habits and…
Published on June 2nd, 2021 | by Dr. Keith Bhatia & Syed Hussain
Successive generations of technology continue to enable the discovery, assembly, and analysis of information that plays a key role in every law-enforcement investigation. Digitization helped preserve and share files and records, and analytics added new abilities to sift through huge…
Published on May 18th, 2021 | by Dr. Keith Bhatia & Syed Hussain
The history of lawful intelligence runs a parallel course to the evolution of communications technology, from wiretaps placed on mechanical switches in the last century to today’s virtualized, server-based applications. The past two decades have seen greatly expanded complexity for…
Published on May 3rd, 2021 | by Dr. Keith Bhatia & Syed Hussain
We are in an intensive era of cloud adoption by communication service providers (CSPs) for 5G networks. This shift is driven by the need for enhanced flexibility and cost-effectiveness that will accommodate 5G’s increased data sizes and diverse usage models.…
Published on April 20th, 2021 | by Dr. Keith Bhatia & Syed Hussain
The introduction of 5G, high bandwidth services, and new applications mark a new, intensive era of cloud adoption by communication service providers (CSPs) for their 5G networks. This shift is needed for enhanced flexibility and cost-effectiveness to accommodate 5G’s increased…
Published on February 16th, 2021 | by Dr. Cemal Dikman & Syed Hussain
The evolution of wide-area networking continues to drive processing out to the network edge. That trend first gained traction with widespread cloud adoption, and it accelerated as the global build-out of IoT began. Now, 5G’s massive increases in traffic rates…
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