Guardian is a cloud-based solution that simplifies & streamlines investigation & evidence management to help users manage, share, and review investigative evidence in a secure environment. Guardian also helps agencies to enforce their SOPs, adhere to agency processes and remove human error and unnecessary work on time-consuming processes such as reporting.

Guardian can be used end-to-end across the whole investigative workflow or flexibly at your agency’s key pain points to accelerate time to evidence and case resolution.

• Simplifies and streamlines existing processes to increase team efficiency and effectiveness, so that you can accelerate time to evidence, maintain agency compliance, ensure defensible investigations with strong chains of custody.

• A simple and secure cloud system to manage your investigations and evidence with unlimited scalability.

• Provides real-time sharing and instant review of evidence.

• Enables all or selected stakeholders in the investigative process to manage, share & review in one centralized solution.

Not at all. Like most modern web applications, Guardian is easy to use and learn. Main flows are intuitive and easy to learn, and the general user experience is designed around existing processes, while evidence review emulates the same experience that anyone with a smartphone would know how to use.

Short answer – it’s up to you!

Long answer – the system follows your processes and flows and is tailorable to your needs, however it does suggest best practices for investigator / lab collaboration for your consideration. So if you have minimal processes in place, this will feel more like a change.

As an industry leader, we’ve combined our years of knowledge of best practices so that you get a superior product with a set of SOPs used by thousands of investigators worldwide.

No, that is the beauty of cloud software, we’ve got this covered! Your data is securely and privately stored and backed up on AWS cloud. You can visit our Trust page for more details on security in Guardian.

Yes, flexibility is one of the cornerstones of Guardian. Many options are configurable, and our team of experts will assist you in making Guardian suit your agency’s specific needs from evidence submission to reporting. And of course you can customize as and when you need.

There are two main ways to do this:

1) via the Investigator Portal where the case investigator can add comments, upload warrants, and ask for specific searches or data, and

2) within the review section of the Investigator Portal where users can tag events for all relevant stakeholders to see.

Yes. The cloud platform removes network barriers so that you can share with any stakeholders outside the agency securely and instantaneously.

Yes. As a user you can manage the entire history of tasks that you were assigned to or that you assigned to others, as well as easily searching, filtering, and sorting to find exactly what you are looking for.

The system guides you through your workflow and processes every step of the way. Your choices and selections will direct you with the correct flows and enables you to set notifications and alerts for important events. Guardian is flexible, so that you can either use it end-to-end across the whole investigative workflow or simply use the parts that suit your agency best.

Yes, multiple people can review the same data with no maximum limit to simultaneous viewers of UFDRs within Guardian. The power of the cloud is realized through Guardian, removing constraints you may have faced with other systems.

Guardian’s Investigator Portal tracks all usage, by whom and when the action occurred. This information is viewable within Investigator Portal and stored indefinitely. Activity Reports and Chain of Custody Reports are available to filter and print on specific activities, or users, or all activity within a date range, so that you can have this information to take it to court. This means all your actions within the application are defensible and promote full transparency through visible checks and balances.

With Guardian, you only pay for what you use. Guardian pricing is based on the amount of data uploaded into the Guardian system each year—but don’t worry, we can help you to easily estimate your needs simply by understanding your case load. Plus, Guardian allows for unlimited users and unlimited outside reviewers, making it simple to share evidence with key stakeholders from any agency.

Guardian is based in both AWS commercial and GovCloud environments, and users benefit from the strict security measures these environments have to offer. On top of this, Cellebrite employs teams of experts who continuously work to ensure the highest security standards and compliance regulations are met.

You can visit our Trust page for more details on security in Guardian.

The data is stored on the AWS cloud in Amazon’s data center. Per needs and regulations, data can be stored within your country providing AWS has an active data center in place.

We currently have live data centers in the US, UK, Australia and Latin America, and are always evaluating additional regions which can be deployed with speed where the need arises. If you would like to understand more about existing or future data centers, please reach out to your account executive for more information.

You can also visit our Trust page for more details on security in Guardian.

There are multiple security safeguards in place to prevent anyone accessing your data, aside from those who’ve been granted access. See our Trust page for more details.

Yes. Guardian is agnostic to the type of files you upload, so you can upload any file in any format and in any size, up to 5TB per file.

Currently Guardian enables review of Cellebrite proprietary UFDR files within your browser – an unmatched capability in the market. Extract summaries from PA can be pasted to autofill Guardian worksheets, making Examiner work easier, quicker, and less prone to human error.

Guardian is a cloud solution offered by Cellebrite to our customers – there is no relationship required between you and any cloud provider (AWS, Azure, Google, etc.) and no impact on your day-to-day work or pre-existing contracts direct with a cloud provider. Simply put, Cellebrite manages the infrastructure while you manage the evidence.

Cellebrite understands that, as part of ensuring compliance, you need to know where your data is stored. Today Guardian resides in a secure, compliant, and encrypted environment in AWS Standard in North America, and in AWS Commercial in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Brazil.

Guardian is the first Investigation & Evidence Management solution that provides you with capabilities that go beyond traditional DEMS. Guardian manages both physical and digital evidence while also providing you with seamless processes, reporting and collaboration between all stakeholders in one flexible and holistic solution so that you can use it where you need it to make your investigative workflow seamless.

With Cellebrite being the market leader in providing data to help you resolve investigations, we have an in-depth understanding of your needs and a comprehensive approach to solving your pain-points, and are the only solution on the market to provide native UFDR review directly in your browser, as well as an agnostic approach to all sources of evidence.