Long-Term Storage Solution for Digital Evidence Management

Digital evidence for police departments and court systems – from sources such as, videos, computers, mobile phones, documents, and any internet-connected device – is growing exponentially. Storing the evidence requires a solution that is cost effective, secure, scalable and accommodates long-term preservation of all of that digital evidence.

Considerations for Preserving Digital Evidence:

• Digital evidence must be archived in native format
• Access to archived evidence must be restricted and only accessible to authorized investigators
• Requires a solution that is simple to use, cost effective and scalable
• Regulations and corporate policies mandate retention policies of digital evidence
• Digital evidence can be stored in a separate location for disaster recovery

Solution Description:

Spectra provides a low-cost solution to store digital evidence. Evidence is archived for long-term retention inits native format, and active data is backed up on a scheduled or ad-hoc basis. Multiple copies of archive and backup data can be made to ensure data is available when needed.

Key
Benefits

End-to-end Solutions

• Automates archive and backup to one or multiple storage tiers – local disk, digital tape, offsite cloud (or any combination)
• Secures an encrypted copy to tape, which can be stored in a remote location and attack hardened against ransomware

Simple To Use By Existing Staff

• Requires no additional IT staff or technical resources
• Archives data in the native format
• Provides a familiar drag-and-drop interface to all archive data
• Restricts access to preserved evidence
• Ensures data lasts for retention policies with built-in ‘Self Backup’ and ‘Self Migration’

Scalable And Cost Effective

• Delivers growth path from 100TB to tens of petabytes of data
• Allows you to avoid the recurring high costs of cloud storage
• Stores other data outside

How Does It Work?