But now the advent of computing, broadband networks, and mobile communications complicated law enforcement’s efforts for lawfully monitoring and collecting communications.  A new method, called “lawful interception,” was developed. Interception and Retention Integrated System (IRIS) leveraged telecom system-level architectures.  Most vendor IRIS solutions were hard coded platforms designed to monitor and record criminal communications by targeting a phone number or a specific computing IP address.  By law, these systems are placed within communication service provider (CSP) networks and are made available to an LEA once a judge determines that there is sufficient evidence to monitor and collect the communications.

BitsIRIS leverages a software-based solution architecture which uses commercial off-the-shelf, or COTS-based servers that

provide a more cost effective, rapid deployment by streamlining operations and making it easier to update according to changing network and market requirements is the next generation approach to IRIS. Lawful Cyber Intelligence moves beyond disparately monitoring phone numbers or IP addresses by collecting a broader set of 21st century social media, communication, and network activities to build more comprehensive, multi-dimensional suspect profiles in real-time.

Our converged monitoring and analysis functionality can be used independently or across BitsIRIS software suite of interception, data retention. This new Cyber Intelligence approach is inherently designed to:
• Flexibly monitor and collect traditional and social media communications and other data from a host of different networks.
• Quickly converge and correlate exponentially greater amounts of relevant data.
• Leverage a host of new data analysis applications to provide LEAs with better and more timely intelligence.