Paraben, a leader in digital forensics, today announced the official launch and immediate availability of Zandra AI, a cutting-edge augmented intelligence platform designed to drastically enhance and streamline Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) investigations.

Zandra AI acts as an analytical “team member” to human investigators, leveraging advanced AI to analyze, cross-correlate, and derive contextual meaning from vast quantities of digital evidence. The platform is engineered to work seamlessly with the Paraben Electronic Evidence Examiner (E3), moving investigations beyond simple data processing into deep, contextual analysis.

Core Capabilities Driving Contextual Insight

Zandra AI processes massive datasets from client PCs, mobile devices, servers, and cloud sources to uncover logical connections and patterns between disparate events. Its key functions include:

• Intelligent Prompting: Investigators can use natural language to ask complex questions about the evidence and receive context-rich answers, summaries, and analyses instantly. Incident Response Analytics: The platform can analyze behaviors, map attacks to established frameworks like MITRE, and generate detailed incident response recommendations, including mitigation and remediation plans.
• Image and Text Analysis: Zandra allows investigators to have a conversation with their case data by analyzing text within documents, images, and other formats.

New Functionality for Enterprise Security and Compliance

Alongside its launch, Zandra AI introduces critical new features focused on enterprise scalability, security, and integrity:

• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): This new functionality allows large-scale organizations to assign multiple investigators to the same Zandra server while limiting access to specific cases or data, ensuring project-level security.
• Visual Analytics Dashboards: New communication maps and timelines provide clear visual representations of communication flows between individuals from multiple data sources, speeding up the investigative process.
• Comprehensive Audit Logs: Zandra AI now provides full tracking of all user actions, creating a detailed audit log essential for maintaining evidence integrity and chain of custody.
• Enhanced Security: Improvements have been made to the already robust security architecture, including enhancements to the two-factor authentication (2FA) system and updates to the primary Validian encryption system for data at Rest and In Transit.
• Zandra Prompt Library: A new built-in library helps guide users through common forensic workflows, improving the user experience and reducing the learning curve.

“The volume and complexity of digital data today are overwhelming human investigators. Zandra AI fundamentally shifts that paradigm,” said Greg Kipper, VP of Cyber, at Paraben. “We are not replacing the investigator; we are augmenting them with an AI partner that finds the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ in petabytes of data, delivering actionable intelligence instantly. The addition of RBAC and Audit Logs ensures Zandra is ready for the largest and most sensitive investigative environments globally.”

Availability and Licensing

Paraben’s Zandra AI is primarily licensed via a Software as a Service (SaaS) model for $199/user/month. It is also available through the Paraben Digital Investigator Membership program, which bundles access to Zandra AI or InvestiGator AI with the E3:UNIVERSAL software, advanced training, and tiered support options.

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