Criminal organisations, smugglers, and traffickers are growing more sophisticated, often leveraging advanced technology to avoid detection. In this evolving landscape, effective border control has never been more critical.
Each day, border officers are tasked with managing a vast flow of people, goods and data, all of which may pose potential threats. The challenge lies in identifying risks swiftly and accurately, without causing unnecessary delays. To keep pace, border agencies must embrace cutting-edge innovations that enable fast, intelligent and timely responses to modern security demands.
Detego Global’s powerful Unified Digital Forensics Platform enables border control teams to conduct on-the-spot investigations, extracting and analysing data within seconds, ensuring swift and informed decision-making. Whether it’s identifying human trafficking networks, stopping drug smuggling, or detecting terrorist activities or cross-border crime, Detego’s rapid data extraction, advanced analytics, multilingual capabilities, and ability to investigate thousands of devices on the spot, equips border security teams with the tools needed to identify risks, detect illicit activities, and protect national security.
Key Features for Strengthening Border Control
Portability for On-Site Forensics
Detego Global’s lightweight, field-ready tools allow border officials to inspect and analyse devices anywhere, reducing the need for costly and time-consuming travel for forensic lab investigations. Whether it’s on-scene at the border itself, in a secure vehicle, at a forensic lab, a kiosk at police stations, or an airport, the platform’s industry-leading technology is ready to be deployed, providing border control agents the tools they need to act on threats there and then.
Triage in Seconds
With automated and precise triage tools, border agents can rapidly prioritise high-risk individuals and devices for further investigation. Detego Field Triage swiftly acquires usernames and passwords, and leverages keywords and swift hash-matching to flag devices with investigation-critical data through a patented visual alert system in seconds. This tool can be customised to instantly detect illegal content related to human trafficking, child abuse, fraud, organised crime, terrorism, and more, reducing investigative delays and reliance on digital forensics labs and time-consuming processes. Evidence discovery can be further accelerated with Field Triage’s new Xpress HashScan mode, which offers speeds that are 6x faster for pictures and video files and 3x faster for all file types.
Investigative teams also benefit from powerful tools such as Media Acquisition, which automates data capture from multiple devices and provides real-time previews for immediate decision-making. Additionally, MD-LIVE, a cutting-edge mobile triage solution, provides access to crucial data across thousands of phone models – even phones with broken screens using its advanced screen mirroring technology.
Rapid Data Extraction from 1,000s of Devices
With patented, ultra-fast data extraction technology, officers can quickly access critical information using Detego tools without disrupting operations. Ballistic Imager, for example, can forensically secure 1TB of data in under 8 minutes – achieving speeds that are 4x faster than the industry average. Other tools in the Detego ecosystem ensure rapid access to evidence from a range of sources, such as phones (including smart phones, feature phones, and burner phones often used by criminals), loose media, computers, laptops, cloud data, apps, drones, and more.
Advanced AI Analytics and Court-Ready Reports
Detego Global’s AI-powered analytical tool, Analyse AI+, provides powerful cross-language translation and transcription capabilities that work offline, making it easier to process data from international suspects and enhance cross-border intelligence.
Using advanced AI-driven face recognition, border officers can sift through vast picture and video datasets to identify persons of interest in seconds. Detego’s AI-powered face recognition can detect 20 faces per second – 4x faster than the industry average. Analyse AI+’s advanced detection tools help identify weapons, drugs, indecent images of children, terror symbology, and other illicit material, whilst technologies such as advanced steganography detection help uncover hidden documents.
This is in addition to powerful semantic search capabilities that allow investigators to search beyond standard keywords and hashes for more complex contexts and concepts. Its robust similar image detection capabilities and ability to identify hidden connections between people, places, and devices, make Analyse AI+ invaluable to any team. Whether scanning for terror-related materials, forged documents, or illicit financial transactions, the system quickly identifies and categorises key information, enabling border teams to create swift, court-ready reports to help tackle transnational crime.
Border control teams using Detego technology have significantly improved their ability to strengthen national security and counterterrorism efforts, disrupt human trafficking and organised crime networks, prevent the smuggling of drugs, weapons, and contraband, and enhance operational efficiency with rapid, on-the-ground investigations.
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