Reveal

The link analysis performed by SN-Sphere applications begins from a particular entity (phone, account, person, etc.). The starting point can be chosen as a result of human intelligence or indications from the data of suspicious activity. In real life, analysts often don’t know where to start. They would like to be able to scan all of the available data and find networks that fit particular behaviour and structural patterns without prior knowledge of any of the individual members of the network. This is the objective of Reveal.

Reveal is a revolutionary software product that analyzes massive quantities of data and finds networks based on a network personality profile (NPP).

The user defines NPPs by choosing types of entities and link criteria just as with other SN-Sphere link analysis models. In addition, the user defines attributes of the network as a whole such as:

• Minimum number of members in the network

• Minimum number of links between the members

• Level of connectivity (to what degree is each member in the network connected with all of the other members)

• Topology of the network (star, clique, polygon, etc.)

• Network rate of growth over time

• Additional attributes

The analyst may also define which data is used as starting points for networks which meet the NPP. For instance, the analysis could be limited only to networks based on phone calls in which at least one phone has a number in a particular area code.

The system calculates a score for each network according to how close it fits the network profile, taking into account the relative importance of each network attribute as defined in the NPP.

Reveal is a separate application which uses NAS to execute its analysis. It has built-in integration with Contextor and Consider. The user may choose any network from the results of the Reveal analysis and:

• Automatically produce a map of the network in Contextor with all of the normal Contextor functionality

• Mark a network for monitoring by Consider