Case Study: CACI accelerates dark web criminal investigations with Elastic

CACI accelerates dark web investigations to seconds with Elastic

CACI, a government contractor specializing in dark web analysis, faced the challenge of helping law enforcement agencies investigate rapidly evolving criminal activity on the dark web. They needed to securely centralize, search, and analyze massive volumes of unstructured data from both the dark and open web to identify and deanonymize threat actors involved in illegal trades, hacking, and ransomware. To address this, they built their DarkBlue Intelligence Suite platform using Elasticsearch and Elastic Observability from Elastic.

The Elastic solution provided the core search and observability capabilities, enabling CACI to quickly ingest and process data from diverse sources on AWS. Elastic's speed and flexibility allowed analysts to get search results in seconds regardless of data age, safely investigate without accessing the dark web directly, and seamlessly integrate new tools like a generative AI assistant. This accelerated criminal investigations, saved countless analyst hours, and gave clients the ability to confidently track shifting criminal personas over time, ultimately supporting law enforcement in their mission to protect public safety.

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