Forensics meets eDiscovery
Collection and review used to live in different products with different custody rules. Matters now cross that boundary routinely, and the record has to survive the crossing without losing provenance.
INDUSTRY
Digital evidence and forensic infrastructure.
Blackbox Systems operates in deterministic evidentiary infrastructure. The companies below operate in adjacent or overlapping parts of digital forensics, digital evidence, investigations, eDiscovery and public-safety technology.
CONVERGENCE
Separate trades are converging on one demand.
Digital forensics, eDiscovery, incident response and public-safety technology grew up as separate trades with separate tools. In today's market they are converging on the same requirement: records that leave the system that created them and still hold up. Receipted, portable, independently verifiable.
Incident response becomes evidence
Response work increasingly ends in front of reviewers, counsel or regulators. Findings kept as notes become findings kept as receipts: timestamped, hashed, attributable.
Public safety goes portable
Body-worn, CAD, dispatch and digital-evidence systems must exchange records across agency boundaries. Portability with intact provenance is the price of admission.
FIELDS OF APPLICATION
One spine, many fields.
Every system on this spine adapts: the field of application changes, the evidence discipline does not. Receipt chains, deterministic hashing, detached signatures and independent verification travel from telecom activation to field custody to defense review. What changes per field is stated below; what stays is the record another party can check.
Telecom activation
Activation, attach, porting and provisioning state resolved deterministically, with contradictions routed to review. Same spine: versioned inputs, explicit time basis, sealed runs.
Financial evidence
Transaction, account and obligation state projected with integer money math. Same spine: one calculation authority, replayable time, HOLD on conflict.
Forensics and incident response
Acquisition context, continuity and reconstruction preserved from collection to review. Same spine: provenance travels, limits are recorded.
eDiscovery and investigations
Collection and review cross matter boundaries without losing custody. Same spine: declared payload universes, portable releases.
Public safety
Body-worn, CAD, dispatch and evidence records exchanged across agency boundaries. Same spine: portability with intact provenance.
Field custody
VIDERIS carries custody, tamper evidence and offline verification to the edge on ordinary CPU. Same spine: detached Ed25519 chains, SHA-256 and SHA3-256 manifests.
Defense review lane
Specifications adapt to Department of Defense or Department of War review, NVIDIA Jetson edge class, and verification alongside Palantir Foundry or Apollo. Same spine: evidence a reviewer can recompute without the originating runtime.
Cellebrite
Digital forensics, investigations and intelligence software.
Magnet Forensics
Digital forensics and incident-response software.
MSAB
Mobile forensics, extraction, analysis and forensic workflows.
Oxygen Forensics
Digital forensic extraction and analysis.
Exterro
Digital forensics, eDiscovery, incident response and data governance.
OpenText Forensic
Forensic collection, analysis and evidentiary workflows.
Nuix
Investigative analytics and digital investigation software.
Axon
Public-safety technology and digital-evidence systems.