Most current solutions that attempt to identify crucial data for discovery, investigation, or compliance have two major vulnerabilities: narrow or static focus, whether on keywords, or specific computer system components; and fixed notions of what they are looking for.
These limitations put you and your organization at risk of missing:
- a crucial piece of evidence
- an opportunity
- an employee's undetected illegal or dangerous behavior.
Breakthrough technology
Cataphora's patented groundbreaking and award winning technology goes right to the heart of these vulnerabilities. It creates a rich model of the actual behavior patterns within an organization including the building of "Discussions™" - logical sequences of dialog among sets of actors, which may span many items of many different types, including items, such as phone records, that lack textual content.
This approach allows you to take a broad view of the available information and to eliminate the need for fixed preconceptions about what you are looking for.
Broad view
The model that lies at the heart of our technology covers the full spectrum of electronic communication channels over which business is conducted today, eliminating the potentially dangerous exposure that arises from ignoring even one of these. For example, looking only at email risks overlooking highly unusual patterns of communications taking place over an instant messaging system
No preconceptions
Because we start from a model of actual behavior patterns, any significant anomalous behavior will automatically draw attention to itself, eliminating the need for preconceptions about what you need to look for. Not all anomalous behavior is illegal or dangerous, but virtually all illegal or dangerous behavior is anomalous, so this is the place to look for it.
Ability to discern what's truly important
Our system's ability to capture subtleties in different dimensions and to flag individuals, or groups of individuals, as demonstrating anomalous behavior over a certain time period results in a small number of alerts or flags that are meaningful and that, even if not sinister, are likely worthy of your interest.
Powerful analytics
Cataphora's patented model allows us to provide a library of powerful evidence analytics to help you understand the data. Cataphora's analytics
- take advantage of the model that we create of the behavior patterns of individuals and groups within an organization
- concentrate on identifying patterns in the data ranging from assessing the nature of data deletions to correlating changes in actor behavior to real world events
- can be used
- retrospectively in legal matters and investigations
- proactively as the basis for compliance monitoring solutions.
These analytics are available only from Cataphora, and go far beyond the simplistic counting techniques available elsewhere which depict raw numbers of emails sent or received.
Document review
Traditional review and assessment of electronic documents focus largely on documents containing obvious keywords. By contrast, Cataphora's patented Discussions
- provide unprecedented visibility into the behavior of key actors
- allow the full surrounding context of each item to be brought to bear in order to determine the importance of each item to the matter at hand.
Cataphora offers a spectrum of review approaches—manual, fully automated, and anything in between—which can be smoothly integrated with analytics to inform case strategy.
Don't be left in the dark
Our technology is in its seventh year of shining a light on major litigations and investigations. Whether you are responsible for successful review of data for a legal matter, investigation, or corporate compliance, Cataphora provides a solution to understanding today's electronic data that is
- vastly more sophisticated
- lower risk
- more efficient
- more cost effective
Contact us for more information.
In addition to offering processing in Europe, Cataphora is now certified under the Safe Harbor framework allowing us to readily transfer data from European Union nations to the United States when this provides the best solution for our customers. 
