DeviceLock integrates dtSearch into endpoint device control and security management platform.
DeviceLock endpoint leakage prevention software enables security administrators to centrally control, log and audit end-user access to peripheral devices and local ports from enterprise systems.  Native integration with Microsoft Active Directory® results in easy deployment and administration.  “After conducting a thorough comparison among a dozen full-text search products available on the market today, we chose dtSearch because of its unbeatable speed and wide range of covered data sources, including files of all popular types stored as SQL database BLOBs.  dtSearch also offered an incredible functional set, enabling easy analysis of the silos of unstructured log and shadow data in the DeviceLock central database.  The end result lets DeviceLock reliably detect and quickly retrieve any data related to security policy violations.”
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Odyssey Digital Forensics™ embeds dtSearch with Rosette® Linguistics Platform for multilingual investigative data support.
Basis Technology's Odyssey Digital Forensics™ enables data capture from hard disks, while documenting the integrity and source of the data. From a captured disk image, the application then analyzes the file system to extract and recover files, and extract text from them. Odyssey next uses the Rosette® Linguistics Platform to preprocess multilingual text, including Middle Eastern languages (Arabic, Persian), East Asian languages (Chinese, Korean, and Japanese) as well as a variety of European language content. “With the embedded dtSearch Engine, Odyssey Digital Forensics Keyword Searching System's smart search crosses language and file format ‘barriers’. Analysts need not know all the languages of the data to perform searches that quickly bring significant files to the fore.”
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IMSG embeds dtSearch in the Department of Defense SCOR database.
The SCOR reference covers procedures relating to the following topics: Anti-Terrorism; Force Protection; Operations Security (OPSEC); Physical Security; Foreign Aircraft Overflight; Information Security; Personnel Security; Industrial Security; Port Security; Planning, Programming and Budgeting; Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM); Research & Technology Protection; Information Operations and Information Assurance. IMSG embedded dtSearch in the online version of SCOR. "We reviewed over a dozen search vendors, and dtSearch came out on top. We particularly like the speed of the search and the presentation of the hits list.”
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In addition to the Web-based version, IMSG used dtSearch for its portable version of SCOR. "Out of the box, dtSearch works. The end result was a reference CD that field agents and others could easily search. dtSearch provides the portability, speed and accessibility that our defense security customers require.”
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General Dynamics Information Systems uses dtSearch in Multimedia Analysis and Archive System (MAAS).
MAAS provides the tactical analyst with the capability to capture and exploit the wide variety of multimedia data received in the tactical environment (including a wide variety of military and other surveillance). “The dtSearch Engine had an API we could work with.”
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SYTEX forensics teams use dtSearch to help solve the case.
"Our IT experts use dtSearch in a variety of ways." For example, during a recent forensics case, "drives were imaged, hashed, and then indexed with dtSearch ... searches for data strings, file names and other types of informative searches were exceptionally fast, to the point of instantaneous. The ability to search through and index a variety of document types - HTML, PDFs, PSTs, Unicode and many others, a key value of dtSearch, can be the pivotal point in an investigation.”

dtSearch "has users at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; California attorney general's office; Defense and Justice departments; and NASA." —Government Computer News

dtSearch is “the software that allows US to answer YOUR queries with ease.”
— P.O.W. Network. dtSearch is a proud sponsor of the P.O.W. Network, www.pownetwork.org

“Another unique approach to file processing in FTK is the integration of the dtSearch text-indexing software ... Currently, FTK is the only integrated forensics analysis tool to incorporate full text indexing into the file processing functions.”
— SC Magazine (from review of AccessData's The Forensic Toolkit™)

“Once you’ve collected all of your information — and in today's world, we're probably talking about terabytes … you've got to organize it … This is generally an industrial task … specialized indexing and searching programs can help with this (I'm partial to dtSearch).”
— Techno Security's™ Guide to E-Discovery and Digital Forensics ("Digital Forensics:  An Overview")

“That’s an easy one: dtSearch. This incredible tool has more applications than anything that I have worked with in 30+ years as a technical specialist. More magazines and news groups than any product that I am aware of have also recognized it.  Several of the authors in this book have mentioned dtSearch as a valuable part of their forensics toolkit as well.”
— Techno Security's™ Guide to E-Discovery and Digital Forensics (FAQ section, by the authors of the book)

ILook Investigator© Toolsets include dtSearch.
The ILook Investigator toolsets are computer forensic tools used to capture and analyze images created from computer systems hard drives and other external storage media. ILook is provided free to qualifying agencies throughout the world. Eligible users must be involved in computer forensics and employed by one of the following: 1) a law enforcement agency whose employees are sworn law enforcement officers; 2) a government intelligence agency; 3) a military agency with authority in criminal and or counter intelligence investigations; 4) a government, state or other regulatory agency with a law enforcement mission.
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Trinus Technologies works with Royal Canadian Mounted Police on the G8 Summit Security Joint Intelligence Group (G8 JIG), using dtSearch.
Attending the G8 Summit Conference were Prime Minister Chretien (Canada), President Bush (US), as well as heads of state from the United Kingdom, Russia, France, Germany, Italy and Japan. “The event, from an intelligence investigation perspective, was a resounding success ... We used dtSearch in a web configuration as the main search tool for users ... The search functions as provided by this system proved to be an integral and vital part of the success of the G8 JIG. With a minimum of instruction, users were able to perform sophisticated searches in a familiar web environment. System performance ... was predictable and excellent.”
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Pinpoint Labs addresses “searching for buried treasure” with dtSearch.
Pinpoint Labs specializes in computer forensics software and services. From the company’s “Searching for Buried Treasure” Blog posting:  “Mapping the data landscape may not immediately indicate where the textual ‘treasure” is located … A common process mistake is assuming that all files are searchable … there are several common exceptions that will prevent a complete search.” “I’ve been a fan of dtSearch for many years because it handles large file collections of up to several terabytes, has extensive file type support, and great customer service. dtSearch is also integrated into several popular litigation support and computer forensic applications.”
—More (“Searching for Buried Treasure”; Blog Home Page)

Evidence Technology puts dtSearch “through its paces.”
Evidence Technology provides an array of digital forensics, e-discovery and data recovery services.  Instead of providing just computer forensic services, or forensic video, or forensic audio, or data recovery, Evidence Technology provides the full range of services.  Evidence Technology has “really put dtSearch through its paces. It’s VERY rare that a product impresses me enough that I feel compelled to write the manufacturer and offer praise, but dtSearch does. Being in the business of digital forensics and electronic discovery, believe me when I say that I’ve worked with a LOT of applications, many of them very expensive, but dtSearch is a shining star in a crowded sky. It’s truly one of the most solid, reliable, and powerful applications I’ve used in years.”
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ENSR comes in “on time and on budget” using dtSearch for DOD scientific data project. 
Focused on the oil and gas, gas and electric utilities, transportation, manufacturing and government sectors, ENSR is an environmental consulting and engineering firm that provides a comprehensive range of services logically aligned with its clients’ asset management life cycle to help resolve complex environmental issues. For the US Department of Defense, ENSR worked on an application that compiles a set of scientific data, including experimental test results, scientific papers, and software model abstracts. After compilation, the US DOD and ENSR distributed the application on portable hard-drives, designed to enable easy access in the field, and to prevent unauthorized disclosure of sensitive data. “ENSR using dtSearch delivered a solution that was on time and on budget. The methodology that ENSR developed using dtSearch would be applicable for other technical problem areas. In fact, the methodology we developed would be of general use in providing easy access to any scientific body of knowledge.”
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eForensics puts dtSearch through its forensics paces.
Sample eForensics investigations have included: a software piracy investigation for one of the world's largest software manufacturers; an alleged theft of intellectual property for a major oil field services business; and a network intrusion investigation for a major world bank. The eForensics team offers a special knowledge in anti-forensics and data-hiding techniques and digital image analysis. eForensics has extensive multinational experience, including a special expertise in Arabic. “We recommend and use dtSearch as a best-in-class indexing tool in the forensics arena, and even include it in our forensics seminars.”
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Forensic analysis applies dtSearch.
The Forensic Toolkit™ from AccessData offers a complete suite of technologies for forensic examinations of computer systems. “dtSearch was the perfect choice for what we wanted to accomplish ... fast efficient searching that is easily accessed by any investigator.”
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From Network Computing:  Forensic Toolkit “has significantly more powerful and efficient text-search functionality, thanks to dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine integration. Integrating dtSearch eliminates the need to buy a separate text-search tool.” “If that's not one of your incident-response applications, dtSearch ... is a necessity.”

Certified forensic technician finds dtSearch “insanely fast.”
”I setup a link for my users to get to the engine and they have been thrilled with the results. dtSearch has saved me from my users AND it is insanely fast!”
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"dtSearch provides several versions of its text mining software for the desktop, Web sites, remote servers, and for embedding in other applications ... ideally suited for rapid indexing by forensic investigators."
—Investigative Data Mining for Security and Criminal Detection
Author: Jesús Mena.
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Awarded top rating by TUCOFS - The Ultimate Collection of Forensic Software, A Complete Resource for Cyber Law Enforcement Technologies.

"The best indexing program I've found is dtSearch" —Effective Discovery of Email. Read this comprehensive computer forensics article on emails at www.civildiscovery.com

SRA uses dtSearch to find the “smoking gun” in law enforcement.
Law enforcement customers of SRA's OrionMagic® include the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and other branches of the Department of Justice (DOJ), the New York Police Department (NYPD), and police departments in California, Florida, and Maryland. “dtSearch's many different search options, such as adjustable fuzzy, stemming for root word derivations, numeric range, proximity, complex boolean logic, and relevancy-ranked natural language also made dtSearch the best choice. It was a one-stop shopping solution.”
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From the Washington Business Journal: “Simply put, the two companies help the good guys catch the bad guys. The FBI and local law enforcement agencies ... have used dtSearch and [OrionMagic] to sift through massive amounts of computer data to help make the connections that lead to arrests.” “Dramatic examples where the product has helped catch criminals” include “a money laundering and black market gem operation” and “a police shooting in California.”

SRA extends OrionMagic® with embedded dtSearch to homeland security and national defense.
Applications in the homeland security and defense arenas include threat assessment, military intelligence, and embassy security. Customers include the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), National Reconnaissance Office (NRC), the US Air Force, US Special Operations Command, Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy, and the Defense Security Service – Office of Counterintelligence. “We found dtSearch provided efficient searching and optimized index structure. We looked at several search engines that are out there … But, we found that dtSearch excelled in performance.”
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From ORIONMagic® U.S. Military “Success Stories”: “Operators in the field collect various types of information in multiple formats and analyze connections. ORIONMagic® … makes it easier to search at a later date. Our customers have told us that it ‘saves countless hours of searching and helps us find the bad guys.’”

Computer forensics firm leaves no byte unturned with dtSearch.
Computer Forensic Associates specializes in computer forensics and electronic evidence: “A wide range of scenarios arise where a thorough and detailed assessment of the computer data is required. This can range from looking for hidden assets, uncovering frauds, finding missing persons, performing personnel investigations and preserving confidential corporate information.” “I have been using dtSearch for some time now in the majority of cases I handle. I have found it to be an invaluable tool.”
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From Processor: “Jeffrey Gross, president and founder of Computer Forensic Associates (www.4nsic.org), says that dtSearch is ‘a powerhouse [that] provides a significant advantage in cases where it is utilized ... dtSearch excels at performing thorough and detailed searches on vast quantities of data ... a class of its own.’”
From EContent Magazine (“The Truth is in There: Sleuthing for Data with Digital Forensics”): “Jeffrey Gross, who founded Computer Forensic Associates … says one of his ‘secret weapons’ is dtSearch, an enterprise-class indexing and search tool.”  Mr. Gross "typically works on complex financial cases and these involve multiple computers, many individuals, and many issues, and dtSearch enables him to see everything that's there in a single index.” “‘dtSearch is a phenomenally potent evidentiary extraction search tool … Using dtSearch with the forensics software, I can carve out the unallocated space just like a regular file, then recover the individual files, whether they are text files or spreadsheets, deleted files, word processing files … and put them all into an index.’” “What’s more, Gross says, he can use dtSearch across multiple hard drives, making his search process vastly more efficient.”
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Forensic Information Technology courses include dtSearch.
The president of Computer Forensic Associates is now teaching graduate-level forensics computer courses. Included in the curricula is everything from general dtSearch forensic search applicability, to advanced techniques for using dtSearch for finding passwords and encryption keys (please contact Computer Forensic Associates for details). From the class notes: “dtSearch is not a forensic tool in the classical definition. It is more of a data management and searching utility that lends itself perfectly to computer forensic examination. Within the universe of electronic evidence search tools, dtSearch is about as good and as powerful as it gets … dtSearch is an industry standard tool beyond conventional reproach and challenge.”
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A leading security trainer to US law enforcement and intelligence agencies, SYTEX trains in dtSearch.
"SYTEX is repeatedly requested to provide training to the intelligence community, local law enforcement organizations, and professionals in the private sector. Initial identification of collection and analysis tools that may enhance and further investigative efforts is a key part of training. dtSearch capabilities make it one of the top tools in analysis efforts. We have identified dtSearch as a front line tool for Federal, Local Law Enforcement, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and Intelligence Agencies in intelligence, forensics and homeland security endeavors.”
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"Every time we go "manual" I am reminded, once again, what a great product dtSearch is! I have our entire database indexed so all we have to do is type in the account number and INSTANTLY it appears on the screen along with all dispatch instructions, zone descriptions and contacts....With dtSearch, we increased our lookup speed so dramatically that we can't imagine how we ever used those index cards for the task!" —Patrick Poire, www.intercityalarms.com

dtSearch "searches are blindingly fast. Fishing expeditions are easier with features such as fuzzy searches, which can find words even when they are misspelled, and a built-in thesaurus that can be used to automatically include synonyms in a search ... Functioning equally well against both email folders and text files, these are very powerful and useful capabilities for an investigator."
—Computer Forensics: Incident Response Essentials
Authors of Computer Forensics: Warren G. Kruse II (Investigations Manager for Corporate Computer and Network Security at Lucent Technologies, on the International Executive Committee of the High Tech Crime Investigative Association, and co-chair of the National Cybercrime Training Partnership) and Jay G. Heiser (Certified Information System Security Professional and an Information Security Officer at the headquarters of a major European financial institution).
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“dtSearch to the Rescue ... I want to let you know about an incredible tool ... The products create indexes that then allow multi-gigabyte size disk drives to be searched in less than a second in most cases. Things like fuzzy searching, phonic searching, numeric range searching, synonym searching and wildcard searching are also possible as well as searching in network drives, CDs and even the Internet ... I have never used anything quite like this product.”
— SC InfoSec Newsletter (Jack Wiles)