Digital forensics investigations have become a pressure cooker for law enforcement agencies as the volume of digital data associated with the typical case continues to rise exponentially. Keeping pace with demand—and addressing case backlogs—requires efficient execution of digital evidence workflows.
Magnet Automate can give your lab an investigative edge by helping you get the most out of your existing resources to dramatically reduce time to evidence while also improving case quality and promoting lab staff wellness.
With the latest version of Automate, we’ve introduced a preview of several new dashboard updates designed to help you more easily access the case information you need, along with the ability to log in using your organization’s single sign-on services and some key performance improvements to file copying.
We’re also excited to share that the latest version of Automate now supports integration with two new tools to help you automate your mobile device and computer workflows: Cellebrite Physical Analyzer and Tableau TX1!
Read on to learn more!
New Automate dashboard updates preview
Automate’s clear, visual dashboards enable you to easily track case progress, access key workflow data and metrics, and monitor the overall status of your lab to help you stay on top of your investigations.
With the latest version of Automate, we’re introducing a preview of the first in a series of coming dashboard updates designed to make it even easier to monitor the status of your cases.
This preview of Automate’s new Cases Page will make your case status information views more customizable and interactive, including search and filter capabilities and the ability to take action directly from your case status rows.
You’ll now be able to immediately see key details of your in-progress and completed workflows along with run summaries and log files in an all-new workflow details summary that you can access directly from your case status row, saving you valuable time and reducing navigation steps.
We’d love to hear your feedback on this new series of Automate dashboard updates, so please be sure to reach out to us if you have any questions or suggestions!
Add Cellebrite Physical Analyzer and Tableau TX1 to your Automate workflows
To extract, examine, and report on evidence from mobile devices, computers, cloud storage, vehicles, and other data sources, most labs have invested in a large collection of digital forensics tools. With Automate, you can integrate both Magnet Forensics tools like Magnet Graykey, Magnet Axiom and Axiom Cyber, Magnet Griffeye, and Magnet Review as well as a wide variety other third-party tools, so you can reap the benefits of automation while continuing to use the tools that already work in your lab.
Automate now includes integration support for two popular third-party DF tools, enabling you to automate even more of your lab’s workflows!
Cellebrite Physical Analyzer Integration
Automate is now capable of automating Cellebrite Physical Analyzer to process images from Cellebrite UFED by utilizing AutoHotKey, a free third-party tool, along with some custom scripting. Once integrated, you’ll be able to easily add Cellebrite Physical Analyzer processing to your automated workflows using our intuitive drag-and-drop Workflow Builder.
If you’re interested in experiencing this new integration with Cellebrite Physical Analyzer our Magnet Forensics Professional Services team is here to help, so please be sure to reach out. We’ll also be publishing a how-to article to our Support Portal shortly to show you how you can set it up yourself.
Tableau TX1 Integration
The Tableau TX1 hardware imager can help you recover data from hard drives, SSD’s, network shares, and USB devices. With native integration, you can now leverage Automate to effortlessly process Tableau TX1 images in your workflows.
Enable single sign-on with agency credentials
Automate also helps you to maintain control over who can access the system to reduce risk to your agency.
Now, with Automate, we’re making it even easier to simplify user management and access by enabling single sign-on support! Automate can now leverage credentials from any identity provider that’s SAML or OpenID connect compliant, including Active Directory and other LDAP identity management systems. Admins can easily assign reviewer permissions individually or via groups based on their role and requirements. Support for multifactor authentication with apps like MS Authenticator is also included, so you can add another layer of access control to ensure the security of your systems. This also enables administrators to eliminate the need to maintain local credentials for Automate as Directory Services can be leveraged instead.
Faster multi-threaded file copy
Automate 4.1 also includes performance enhancements to file copying, with multi-threaded processing now enable to help you finish your case runs even faster.
Upcoming webinar on March 12: Build streamlined workflows across your entire DF toolkit with Magnet Automate
Join our experts to see how you can start automating your workflows today with Automate’s workflow builder and pre-built workflows and seamlessly integrate any tool from your forensic toolkit, including Magnet Graykey, Magnet Griffeye, Cellebrite Physical Analyzer, and more.
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