Four startups, whose work spans the prison system, video analysis, climate work and courts, won recognition at the annual State of GovTech event recently in Foster City, Calif.
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays an increasing role in many aspects of life, the application of AI in criminal, civil, and other investigations, will continue to grow. However, unlike in other applications, the use of AI in digital forensics has different considerations for becoming admissible for use in legal proceedings. These considerations stem from the gravity of the questions being answered by AI in digital forensics; questions that could affect people’s liberty, livelihoods, and finances. It is imperative that any AI applied in digital evidence analysis be met with the same rigor as other forms of forensic evidence. Implementation of AI tools developed without a consideration of legal admissibility have a potential for disastrous results, whether evidence is deemed inadmissible, or worse, incorrectly analyzed.
Medex Forensics will use AWS to scale public sector access to automated media authentication technology
After an incubation period, we are releasing a significant frontend update to the Medex Video Authentication Platform. Access a short explainer video to see the changes in action. This release will includes the following. Significant transformation of the File Examination Result page: The option to request Advanced Analysis has been relocated to the “Action” dropdown […]
Medex Forensics (Medex) develops and deploys digital forensic technology to identify child predators, fight digital crime, and combat disinformation. Medex is pioneering digital file format forensics – deploying forensic parsing and analysis at the file format domain to comprehensively extract all existing data from digital files based on their binary structure while leveraging that structure to introduce automated intelligence related to the provenance and authenticity of the files themselves.
We offer software as a service, as well as training and expert forensic services to increase our clients’ capacity to know everything there is to know about a given digital file.
Commencing with technology supporting digital video files, Medex brings patented analytical methods to the digital forensics community. Our Medex Video Authentication Platform helps our colleagues and clients determine the trustworthiness of digital evidence and to know when a video has been edited or modified, and to recognize original camera video from synthetically produced media.
Unlike any other software, Medex reveals information that is not present in the metadata of a digital video file. With this additional intelligence, investigators are answering new questions about video and identifying additional crimes and perpetrators in previously impossible ways.
The Medex Video Authentication Platform’s strengths lay in its speed, ease-of-use, potential for investigative leads, and ability to identify modification and validation errors in video files. We offer both a SaaS solution and an On-premise solution that are low overhead and commitment for organizations to license and try the technology themselves.
Medex offers law enforcement professionals, journalists, lawyers, forensic examiners, and intelligence analysts a first-ever forensic toolset to automatically inspect a video file, identify the camera that created it, identify any software that was used to edit it, and report modifications that were made to the file. Our users in federal, state, county, and private agencies are already employing Medex to solve child exploitation video production cases, to validate body worn camera video for court, and to disprove disinformation videos (e.g., deepfakes, synthetic media, and generative AI).
Medex will help you quickly develop confidence or distrust in video evidence to help you more quickly determine the best strategy for making the most of video evidence in your cases.
Increase your team’s expertise in digital video investigations.
Medex offers certification and training in basic and advanced digital video authentication and provenance examination, including source detection and modification analysis.
Brandon Epstein, CFVA, CFVE
Chief Forensic Officer & Director of Training
“Medex Forensics understands that complex digital video files can generate complex answers. We believe that effective training can allow investigators and forensic examiners to get the most accurate and useful results out of the Medex software application. Our training offerings are designed to provide a designated audience an accurate understanding of device source and generational classification/authentication concepts, as well as a competency for using Medex in a variety of practical and common scenarios.”
Medex Examiner Training Course
January 30-31, 2024
Medex/IACIS - Advanced Video Forensics Course
April 29 - May 3, 2024
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