FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Bunni Bates
Communications Manager
11700 Plaza America Drive, Suite 810
Reston, VA 20190
703.471.9793 ext. 220
bbates@platinumsolutions.com
Platinum Solutions' Evidentiary Metadata System Helps
FBI Locate and Evaluate Digital Evidence
Powerful, investigative tool quickly locates case information from digital media
Reston, VA (October 28, 2003) - Platinum Solutions, Inc., a recognized leader in IT collaboration and integration for the federal government, announced the delivery of the Evidentiary Metadata System Version 1.0 (EVMS) to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Computer Analysis Response Team (CART) division. The latest of Platinum Solutions systems for the FBI, EVMS will give law enforcement the ability to query and pinpoint specific data on confiscated media including hard, floppy or removable drives; backup media, CDs, PDAs and other data recording devices. EVMS allows law enforcement to more efficiently evaluate digital evidence, solve crimes and present evidence in court.
When applied to a set of files, EVMS captures and identifies each file, generates a pre-defined list of data elements developed in collaboration with CART, reads the file and headers, extracts information and stores it in the searchable database. The EVMS search tool then provides a list of relevant files from that file set based on the search. Examples of sought evidence include child pornography, questionable accounting files and evidence of terrorist activities.
EVMS catalogs and searches all contents, including text, pictures, PDFs, multimedia audio and video files, Web documents and email. EVMS is particularly useful in searching files that have been intentionally hidden or deleted.
Built on the Eclipse open source platform, EVMS is a cross-platform application that generates useful data in an XML-based schema.
"Platinum Solutions has enjoyed a favorable and ongoing relationship with the FBI since the company's inception," said Adam Rossi, Platinum Solutions President. "We are recognized within the law enforcement, justice and homeland security communities for our ability to integrate and analyze tremendous amounts of data and to make this data accessible to agencies and departments as appropriate. As the FBI has been beta testing EVMS, the system has proven its ability to pinpoint the location of data of interest. Certainly we see the potential for a system like this for other divisions and agencies," said Rossi.
About Platinum Solutions - Platinum Solutions (www.platinumsolutions.com) of Reston, VA, is truly a leader in providing integration and collaboration solutions for the federal government, with particular expertise in law enforcement, intelligence and homeland security. Commercial industries served include telecom and financial services. Platinum Solutions' professionals are leaders within the open source community and key developers of the Keel open source meta-framework for Web-based applications.