At IDEX 2021, Patria resents its cyber intelligence software: CRAWLER. CRAWLR is an open source intelligence (OSINT) software product for governmental actors for gathering and analyzing open source data combined with private data. The software collects, classifies, enriches and analyses information from multiple sources using discrete data mining. Further, highly sophisticated image and optical character recognition and offline neural network-based translation tools help gather and analyze data from both the public Internet and Dark Web.

The data gathered by CRAWLR allows for trends to be created, events to be foreseen, criminal activities to be detected and high-level governmental situational awareness of emerging threats to be obtained (Picture source: Patria)

Patria CRAWLR is a cyber intelligence (CYBINT) software product providing targeted and discrete information gathering from a wide range of sources, including websites, social media and the dark web. Patria CRAWLR enables the user to analyse results and discover sources of information by utilising the advanced automatic data gathering and information classification features as well as the machine learning capabilities of the system.

The gathered information is displayed to the user in an easy-to-understand unified graph representation with a wide variety of search tools and filtering available for deeper analysis. The system aids the user in finding valuable intelligence information by using automated classification, statistics and information history.

CRAWLR offers scalability, modularity and configurability for various use cases of governmental actors. It can be utilised in situations such as gathering evidence for criminal investigations, analysing the security situation in selected regions, detecting information operations in social networks and creating high-level governmental situational awareness of emerging threats based on open sources.

(CRAWLR presents various visions for future utilisation, including crowdsourcing, situational awareness, Machine Learning and future analytics. CRAWLR will be able to detect and neutralise information operations, classify news, create spatiotemporal visualisations, detect anomalies, recognise named entities as well as conduct semantic search, sentiment analysis and stylometrics.)

CRAWLR is an effective tool against hybrid warfare, terrorism, drug and illegal arms trafficking and is a highly effective cyber and military intelligence capability.

Applications

- Governmental actor users (Intelligence, Military, Police, Customs, Border guard)
- Military equipment identification
- Security situation awareness in a chosen location
- Dark web market place statistics
- Information operation detection

Key Characteristics

- Fully automated open source information gathering and classification without need to deploy human resources
- Evidence gathering with intelligent analytics of web-based communications
- Easy-to-understand visual representation enabling clue finding and trend analysis
- Scalable system for numerous needs of different governmental actors