Best-of-Breed Technology

AXIOM by Magnet Forensics is an investigation platform with the ability to recover, analyze, and report on data from cloud, computer, and mobile sources. The Lighthouse Forensics team leverages Axiom to investigate intellectual property theft, perform “red flag” reporting, and acquire evidence from both cloud and physical sources.

With Azure Container Registry, users can build, manage, replicate, scan, secure, and store container images and artifacts with a fully managed, geo-replicated instance of OCI distribution. Prism utilizes this container registry to manage and deploy docket containers utilized in data analytics workloads

A fully managed, serverless data integration service to construct ETL and ELT processes. Prism utilizes this service to orchestrate data pipelines, including pulling data from Relativity into Prism and running analytical compute workloads.

A data analytics platform optimized for the Microsoft Azure cloud services platform. Prism utilizes the platform for largescale data transforms and compute workloads.

A service to create private connections between Azure datacenters and infrastructure on premises or in a colocation environment. ExpressRoute connections don't go over the public Internet, and offer faster speeds, lower latencies, and more reliability than typical Internet connections. Prism uses an ExpressRoute to transfer larger volumes of data efficiently to Azure.

A service to safeguard cryptographic keys and other secrets used by cloud apps and services. Prism utilizes this service to securely store secret information and environmental variables that support automation workflows.

An AI service that empowers data scientists and developers with a wide range of productive experiences for building, training, and deploying machine learning models quickly. Prism utilizes this service to orchestrate the training and deployment of predictive models.

An intelligent, scalable, relational database service built for the cloud with a Hyperscale storage option that automatically scales resources on demand. Prism utilizes this service as the relational data storage layer for state management, reporting, and ad-hoc analysis.

Services enabling companies to create future-ready, secure cloud solutions on Azure. Prism utilizes a subset of these services as the backbone of the platform and can incorporate more services, as needed. Key Azure Services utilized by Prism are documented below.

A storage service for accounts containing Azure Storage data objects including blobs, files, queues, tables, and disks. Data in Azure Storage is durable and highly available, secure, and scalable. Prism utilizes this service to store transient work product generated by analytical workloads.

An AI service that uncovers insights such as entities, key phrases and sentiment, and relations in unstructured text. Prism integrates these capabilities to extract PII and PHI from unstructured text.

BlackLight is used by the Lighthouse Forensics team for comprehensive, fast analysis of computer extractions and images to gain actionable insights on user activity. The software enables simple searching and filtering of large data sets from devices running Android, MacOS and iOS, and Windows operating systems.

Brainspace helps users leverage analytical information about case data through dynamic data visualizations. The application uses machine learning to improve efficiency in review and quality of decision-making around data patterns. Brainspace is used by Lighthouse Services teams to provide data analysis for client matters, with the ability to implement classification index-based Continuous Multimodal Learning for prioritized review. Brainspace is also integrated to the Spectra platform. On Spectra, users are able to seamlessly transfer data into the application in a single click, gaining self-service access to powerful case data analysis capabilities and features like email threading and near-duplicate analysis.

The Cellebrite Digital Intelligence Platform empowers enterprises, government agencies, and law enforcement to access, manage, and analyze data. Lighthouse forensic examiners leverage Cellebrite technology to acquire digital evidence from cloud storage locations and mobile devices.   Cellebrite Digital Collector is a powerful forensic imaging software solution used by the Lighthouse Forensics team to perform triage, live data acquisition, and targeted data collection on Mac and Windows computers. The software safely boots and acquires data from hundreds of different Mac computer models in their native environments and allows for a complete image of the system, including deleted and unallocated areas of drives into industry standard formats.  With the acquisition of Blackbag Technologies by Cellebrite, Lighthouse forensic examiners are able to utilize BlackLight for acquisition and analysis of evidence on a wide variety of Apple products.

EnCase Forensic enables the search, identification, and prioritization of potential evidence in computers and mobile devices, including capabilities supporting in-depth analysis of documents, images, Internet history, and Windows Registry information. Many forensic examiners at Lighthouse are certified on the platform, which serves as foundation of our Forensics services. 

Lighthouse partners with Litexn to offer Exolution to clients for efficient native redaction in Relativity. While most native redaction applications built into the Relativity viewer are limited by Relativity API, Exolution uses an independent system for processing and provides a custom viewer. Exolution is used by Lighthouse Services teams and is offered as a product via our technology alliance with Litexn.

Forensic Toolkit, or FTK, is a computer forensics product suite by OpenText, designed to help users locate evidence and forensically collect and analyze digital devices. FTK is used by the Lighthouse Forensics team to acquire logical and physical data, serving as a foundational analysis tool in our examiners’ kits.

The Lighthouse Spectra platform leverages the high-speed data transfer capabilities of IBM Aspera so users can easily upload large data sets with the assurance of data integrity and security. Aspera is offered as one of three upload options to users on the platform.

Intella is a data processing, search, and analysis tool designed to help users find critical information using cluster-map technology to visualize relationships and timelines between custodians and ESI. Intella is leveraged by Lighthouse Forensics and Services teams to support the preparation of mobile device evidence for review in Relativity.

Ipro eCapture is integrated to Spectra. With Spectra and Ipro eCapture, users are no longer sidelined by the effort and time commanded by document imaging. They can set up an imaging profile and run a search, and documents are automatically imaged and overlaid into the database.

Linguistic Systems offers an AI-driven language translation engine capable of identifying up to 120 language pairs. Translations are seamlessly requested from and delivered to Relativity with optional native-to-native translation capabilities via a dedicated portal. The Linguistic Systems engine is used by Lighthouse Services teams and is available on the Spectra platform.

Nuix is one of the industry’smost trusted tools to index and search large volumes of unstructured data. Its robust in-built understanding of file formats and storage types is unmatched by competitors. Nuix is used by Lighthouse Services teams and is seamlessly integrated to the Spectra platform. Spectra helps users to harness the power of Nuix processing without the need for technical know-how or training. The platform enhances Nuix capabilities with CORE Automation—a proprietary data processing automation technology. CORE provides safeguards and standards in processing to ensure results are defensible and replicable.

The Onna cloud-based Knowledge Integration Platform allows organizations to archive enterprise data in a manner that supports eDiscovery response and information governance. Lighthouse forensic examiners leverage the platform to acquire evidence from cloud-based sources, like Slack, to facilitate discovery requests and internal investigations.

Oxygen Forensic Detective is a forensics software platform supporting data extraction, decoding, and analysis from multiple digital sources, including mobile devices and device backups, drones and IoT devices, UICC and media cards, and cloud services across the spectrum of device operating systems. The capabilities of the software allow the Lighthouse Forensics team to bypass screen locks, locate passwords to encrypted backups, extract and parse data from secure applications and, recover deleted data. With Oxygen Forensic Detective, our examiners are able to view multiple extractions in a single interface to gain a thorough picture of the data.

For over 20 years, Passware has provided an industry-leading password cracking and recovery solution, supporting decryption and removal of protection from dozens of file formats and types by leveraging known passwords and utilizing total hardware capacity. With Passware implementation and infrastructure, our Forensics team is able to provide clients a balance of capability and throughput, delivering consistent, quality results in a reasonable time frame.

ReadySuite is software to view, validate, and perform quality control for production data volumes. The software can be configured to connect to Relativity and allow users to edit and validate incoming document volumes loading to Relativity. Many common quality checks, metadata manipulations, automated scripts, and reports are available in ReadySuite, which allows users to ensure accuracy in all deliverables being uploaded to eDiscovery platforms or to any receiving party. The tool is a part of the forensic toolkit used by Lighthouse forensic examiners.

With Relativity Analytics, users can rapidly classify and prioritize documents for review and identify potentially relevant documents that other searching techniques overlook. With its self-training/automated clustering capabilities, Relativity Analytics learns conceptual relationships as it processes data without requiring pre-established word lists, dictionaries, or linguistic techniques. Relativity Analytics is used by Lighthouse Services teams to support early case assessment and the culling of data in review and is available to users on the Spectra platform upon request.

Relativity Server is on-premises software providing eDiscovery capabilities spanning the EDRM. It’s the most widely adopted review platform in the industry and is used extensively by Lighthouse Services teams to support review on behalf of clients. Relativity is also integrated to Spectra—delivering the review experience for users on the platform. Spectra users can automate and customize their Relativity review with proprietary features that enhance Relativity functionality. The intuitive UI/UX of Spectra allows users to efficientl navigate review, including features to reduce review data volume up to 70%. They can create and save custom workflows, and the features, layouts, and permissions they define can be replicated in a single click.

RelativityOne is a web-based data discovery application by Relativity supporting case strategy, eDiscovery, investigations, and legal hold. RelativityOne is used by Lighthouse Services teams and will be integrated to the Spectra platform. On Spectra, users will be able to leverage RelativityOne case preparation capabilities, then load data into the platform to customize and scale review workflows—and the review features, layouts, and permissions they define can be replicated in a single click. The intuitive UI/UX of Spectra allows users to navigate review efficiently, including features to reduce review data volume up to 70%.

The ServiceNow Platform is a cloud-native process and workflow automation and orchestration platform that allows Lighthouse teams to rapidly design, build, and deliver robust applications for our external and internal customers. The platform contains a full application development suite that’s used by our teams to build functionality for CloudCompass, IT, Service Delivery, and many other teams at Lighthouse. It’s designed from the ground up with integrations in mind, delivering a truly innovative workflow experience that connects many Lighthouse internal systems to drive business value.

An end-to-end open-source platform for machine learning. It has a comprehensive, flexible ecosystem of community resources, libraries, and tools to help developers easily build and deploy ML-powered applications and researchers explore what’s possible in ML. Prism utilizes TensorFlow as the core AI and ML framework and implements it with Azure DataBricks and Azure Machine Learning Services.

TextIQ software uses unsupervised machine learning, graphical modeling, and deep learning to intelligently search data for potentially privileged entities that are based on conceptual privilege, not just term identification. Lighthouse Services teams consult with clients to implement TextIQ as a SaaS solution.

VMware Tanzu is a portfolio of products and solutions allowing VMware customers to build, run, and manage container-based, Kubernetes-controlled applications. Lighthouse utilizes Tanzu to support on-premises “cloud” infrastructure, and Prism employes the service to orchestrate user interactions between on-premises resources and Azure-based resources.

Veritone uses a multi-engine learning approach to generate high quality transcript and translation services for audio and video files. The Veritone application is integrated to Relativity, allowing review teams to efficiently redact media files and prepare them for production in a dedicated viewer. The integrated solution also provides object detection most commonly used in criminal investigations. Today, Veritone is used by Lighthouse Services to support translation in Relativity for audio and video files.