VANTOS - The Enterprise Investigation Management Company

V-FlexIM for Enterprise Investigation Management

The VANTOS V-FlexIM Product allows enterprises to fully automate and manage all their investigations and investigative processes. V-FlexIM can run common investigations out of the box, and can adapt to meet the evolving complexity, volume and variety of enterprise investigations. The power and flexibility of V-FlexIM comes from the underlying V-Flex platform with its patent-pending technologies. For fast deployment, V-FlexIM is delivered as a hardened appliance with a secure web-based interface that can be up and running in under an hour.

Automated Investigation Playbooks - Investigators can run a range of investigations out of the box, customize them, or create new Playbooks to meet their unique needs. A Playbook captures essential investigative practices providing a consistent strategy for repeatable and unbiased execution of any given investigation.
Just-In-Time Teaming - Investigators, stakeholders and others in the organization can collaborate on-demand, ensuring the right people in the right roles are available at the right time for the investigation.
Cross Dimensional Analysis - Rich analytics and visualizations across multiple data sets allows investigators and stakeholders to gain comprehensive insight for faster, more accurate decisions. Examples of our analytics include a log alignment tool for matching and sequencing events in log files from different systems, and a connection graph which shows the social network of participants around a given event or situation.
Access Control - Provides complete granular access not only to each investigation, but to the individual components of an investigation.
Evidence Locker - Authoritative and secure repository for all enterprise investigations.
Command and Control - Investigators and stakeholders can manage their entire portfolio of enterprise investigations for more accurate and confident decisions on a single investigation or across a range of investigations.

Investigation Command and Control

Successful investigations require the coordinated orchestration of people and processes throughout the enterprise. Investigation data comes from a myriad of sources and may be under the control of disparate silos throughout the company. V-FlexIM ensures total command and control of each investigation by providing:

Role-Based Dashboards that put that right information at the fingertips of the right stakeholders.
Collaborative Task and Work Queues that automatically engage the appropriate individuals at each phase of the investigation.
Automated Investigative Playbooks that ensure investigations are conducted in a pre-defined manner regardless of the individual investigator conducting the investigation.
Secure Case Diary where the entire investigative team can capture their notes and collaborate via secure chat, ensuring the team operates with a shared context throughout the investigation.

Enterprise Risk Management

Enterprises are constantly at risk of financial loss, diminished shareholder value and damaged reputations. Ensuring rapid response and consistent procedures could make the difference between a small annoyance and a corporate PR nightmare. V-FlexIM helps you manage corporate risk by providing:

Automated Investigative Playbooks that ensure consistent, repeatable, defendable results for every investigation.
Secure Evidence Locker that ensures chain of custody for critical investigation data.
Automated Escalation to key stakeholders to ensure the proper priority and visibility is achieved.
Risk and Cost Quantification through tracking of all time and costs associated with an individual investigation as well as trending between investigations and teams.
Detailed Audit Log of all steps performed during an investigation.

Time and Cost Compression

With the increasing number and complexity of investigations corporate investigation teams are overwhelmed and unable to keep up. Unnecessarily throwing manpower at the problem creates silos and reduces the effectiveness of the overall investigative team. V-FlexIM reduces the time and cost of investigations by providing:

Automated Investigative Playbooks that capture the knowledge of experienced investigators and enable less costly investigators to be more effective.
Rich Analytics & Visualization Tools to help investigators quickly identify trends in the data and pinpoint root causes. Attaches to multiple data sources on-demand and is extensible via a plug-in architecture that allows an enterprise to add new analytics to meet its unique investigation needs.
Data Acquisition Tools to quickly capture any type of data and evidence from any source for inclusion in an investigation.
Just-In-Time Teaming and Collaboration places the stakeholders in the right roles for each investigation, connecting them to the right data with the proper workflows.

Scalability and Adaptability

New types of investigations are constantly encountered or new regulations and policies introduced which require new investigation processes and procedures. Only V-FlexIM is powered by the V-Flex platform, which was built from the ground up to adapt to the evolving complexity, volume and variety of enterprise investigations.

The V-Flex platform allows complete customization of the investigation process, data representation and layout of information, providing user-configurable:

Data Modeling so that new entities can be incorporated.
Process Modeling so that changes in workflow and automation needs can be addressed.
Presentation to address new dashboard and reporting requirements.
Three Different Appliance Sizes to meet your needs now and into the future.
High Availability Option to ensure uptime and accessibility 24/7.

V-FlexIM is a comprehensive product that gives the enterprise complete command and control of its investigations helping it manage risk exposure, compress time and cost, and scale to manage the rising volume and ever-increasing complexity of its investigations.

"Vendors must provide products that solve the entire digital investigations problem, rather than just addressing specific subsets of the problem like incident response or digital forensics.”