Social Media and Internet-Based Data Collection
X1 Social Discovery is the industry-leading solution for anyone who needs to collect and search data from social networks and the internet.
X1 Social Discovery aggregates comprehensive social media content and web-based data into a single user interface, collects vital metadata in a legally defensible manner and preserves the chain of custody. X1 Social Discovery saves customers vast amounts of time and money through the automated – and simultaneous – collection of data from multiple social media accounts.
Unlike archiving and image capture solutions, X1 Social Discovery provides for a case-centric workflow from search and collection through production in searchable native format, while preserving critical metadata not possible through image capture, printouts, or raw data archival of RSS feeds. X1 Social Discovery saves investigators critical man hours and enables powerful, proactive and reactive investigative capabilities with automated email alerts for social media, geostreaming and website collections.
Introductory Video (3 min)
Watch this brief video to see X1 Social Discovery in action.
Data Collections
- YouTube
- Tumblr
- Web pages & websites
- Gmail
- YahooMail
- Outlook.com
- AOL Mail
- Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
Collections
Data is collected and indexed from social media streams, linked content and websites through APIs, webmail connectors and direct web navigation. X1 Social Discovery aggregates data from these multiple sources in real time, in a highly scalable and case-centric manner.
Authentication
MD5 hash values of individual items are calculated upon capture and maintained through export. Automated logging and reports are generated. Key metadata unique to social media & web streams are captured through deep integration with APIs provided by the publishers. This metadata is important to establishing chain of custody and also provides key evidence relevant to the substantive case as well as authentication.
Search
Perform broad, unified searches across multiple accounts, social media streams and websites from a single interface. Linked content is automatically indexed and searched through the patented X1 fast-as-you-type search from one user interface. Results are aggregated for sorting, tagging and export consistent with standard eDiscovery, or investigative, workflow.
Production
Maintain data in a searchable native format from collection through production, uniquely providing a complete platform to address social media in the same manner as devices, e-mail and e-documents. Deliver collected email in PST format while maintaining hierarchical structure.
