Siren 13 is twice as fast as the previous version of the >Investigative Intelligence analytics solution, most notably on larger and more complex investigative searches with a simplified interface to allow for a better analyst experience. Importantly, it includes many under-the-hood changes and whilst invisible to the user, these improvements lay the groundwork for highly desirable features and user experience in the future. As criminality becomes more sophisticated worldwide, this release enables organizations to accelerate investigations by providing faster and easier access to actionable data. Organizations can now visualize, analyze and subsequently disseminate a more precise set of data relationships.
With 13, investigators and analysts have access to richer reporting, the ability to print large complex diagrams on high fidelity charts, to download graphs in PNG files via the API and to produce advanced ad hoc dashboard reports. ESRI vector layers can now be applied to coordinate maps to include census tracts or land parcels and images can be viewed more easily with zoom in capability directly from the record.
Siren 13 extends its investigative search capabilities with advanced features such as visual icons to identify sub-groups of data and unlimited sub-searches to allow for quicker and easier processing of large data sets. Law Enforcement National Security agencies and corporates now have access to enhanced audit tracking, increased data access security and additional security updates.
Features:
Sub-searches/nested searchesWith 13, it is now possible to create unlimited sub-searches in the data model. According to how filters are chosen, individual records can appear in one or more searches.
Backend and performance improvementsSiren 13 incorporates Federate 27.4x, a fully vectorized processing engine, capable of joining datasets in the 10+ billion range at twice the speed of the previous version. Federate is Siren’s multi-patented technology and is at the heart of the real-time and interactive platform. Federate provides investigators with an unparalleled capability of data exploration, covering billions of streaming records in scenarios such as large scale OSINT, COMINT/SIGINT and CYBER. At the data model level, users can disable counts on specific relations to improve performance. In addition, auditing has been enhanced to enable users to track more events, with further security updates and Node.js has been upgraded which is a core investigative component.
Elasticsearch 8.x supportElasticsearch 8.x is the current major release and represents a huge step forward in terms of storage efficiency, the ability to process text with NLP AI transformers, and the ability to search complex vectorized content (e.g., images, faces etc.). Elasticsearch 8.x is supported by Siren as a primary or remote cluster, both on-premise and in the Elastic Cloud.Siren APIThe Siren Scripting API now has more flexibility to operate on graphs, performing custom transformations as well as extracting PNG screenshots from visualizations, enabling the user to produce advanced/ad hoc reports from dashboards. In addition, 13 includes an improved investigate status API with more detailed HTTP return codes to facilitate application monitoring and automation.
