Evidence Management Platform

Overview#

Investigators at a national financial regulator open a new case involving a suspected market manipulation scheme. Over the following weeks, they ingest trading records, communication intercepts, and company documents from multiple sources. Legal counsel needs to review disclosure obligations. External forensic experts need controlled access to specific items. The case team needs to track what has been analysed, what has been disclosed, and what is still outstanding. All of that happens within a single platform, with every action recorded and every file preserved with forensic integrity.

The Evidence Management Platform handles the complete evidence lifecycle, from the moment a file enters the system through final disposition or archiving. Chain of custody is maintained continuously, not assembled retrospectively. AI-powered classification and content extraction reduce the manual cataloguing burden on large collections. Disclosure workflows, access controls, and audit trails are built into the platform rather than bolted on as afterthoughts.

Key Features#

• End-to-end evidence handling from collection and preservation through disclosure, retention, and final disposition
• Continuous chain of custody integrity with cryptographic verification applied at every state transition
• AI-powered evidence classification and content extraction, reducing manual effort on large and varied collections
• Secure sharing capabilities with granular access controls, per-recipient audit trails, and time-limited access options
• Multi-format support covering digital files, multimedia, physical item records, forensic images, and structured data exports
• Automated metadata extraction and cataloguing at ingestion, ensuring consistent records without analyst overhead
• Evidence preservation with forensic soundness guarantees and AES-256-GCM encryption at rest
• Disclosure workflow management covering Brady and Ward material analysis, redaction, Bates numbering, and court-ready bundle production

Use Cases#

• Managing the complete evidence lifecycle for large-scale investigations involving multiple agencies, legal teams, and forensic examiners
• Automating evidence classification and metadata extraction using AI to accelerate case preparation on high-volume collections
• Preparing evidence for legal disclosure with compliance validation against jurisdiction-specific rules, including Irish courts
• Enabling secure multi-party evidence access with full audit trails for investigators, legal counsel, and expert witnesses

Integration#

The Evidence Management Platform connects with investigation systems, storage services, AI analysis engines, and legal disclosure workflows.

Open Standards#

• RFC 3161 (Internet X.509 PKI Time-Stamp Protocol): Trusted timestamping tokens from a configured TSA are embedded in all evidence exports and disclosure bundles, providing cryptographically verifiable proof that files existed in their current state at a specific point in time.
• CMS / PKCS#7 (RFC 5652, Cryptographic Message Syntax): Disclosure bundles are signed using a detached CMS/PKCS#7 signature (SIGNATURE.p7s) over the bundle manifest, enabling offline authenticity verification without platform connectivity.
• W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model 2.0: Signed verifiable credentials of type EvidenceCollection are issued for evidence items at ingestion, anchoring provenance and custodial transfers to a tamper-evident, standards-based credential that any conformant verifier can inspect.
• ISO 19005 (PDF/A): Court-ready disclosure bundles and archival index files are produced in PDF/A variants (1B through 4F), ensuring long-term renderable archival under ISO 19005 constraints as required by courts and regulators.
• FIPS 180-4 / SHA-2 and SHA-3 family: Every evidence object is hashed at ingestion using SHA-256, SHA-512, and SHA3-256; all chain-of-custody state transitions record hash_before and hash_after digests computed with the same algorithms, providing multi-algorithm forensic integrity assurance.
• AES-256-GCM (FIPS 197 / NIST SP 800-38D): Evidence files are encrypted at rest using AES-256 in Galois/Counter Mode, providing both confidentiality and authenticated integrity for stored items.
• Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF / JEITA CP-3451C): Image evidence is automatically parsed for embedded EXIF metadata at ingestion, extracting camera model, capture timestamps, GPS coordinates, and exposure settings for cataloguing and geolocation without manual analyst input.

Last Reviewed: 2026-02-05 Last Updated: 2026-04-14