Virtual Desktops

Each instance of Alias includes a fully-featured virtual desktop, providing a powerful, secure, and customizable environment tailored to your investigative needs. These virtual desktops are designed to support the diverse requirements of cybersecurity analysts, ensuring that your investigative environments are underpinned by robust and resilient infrastructure.

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Access, Security, and Availability

  • Secure Access

    Access each instance securely via the web portal, or connect to your environment’s private VPN and utilize direct remote desktop (RDP), SSH, or any other secure protocol.

  • Device Passthrough

    Utilize your local speakers, microphone, camera, and other peripherals natively within each Alias instance to support communication and collaboration use-cases.

  • High level Investigative Environment Management

    Organize information such as case numbers, environment details, important dates, and assigned analysts to each Alias instance for complete single pane of glass visibility

  • Comprehensive Encryption

    All data is protected with encryption at-rest and in-transit at the platform level. Additionally, you can utilize any guest-OS based encryption such as BitLocker, VeraCrypt, AES Crypt, and others to ensure not even SockPuppet is a party to your data.

  • On-Site and Offsite Backups

    Ensure data integrity with both on-site and offsite daily backups, providing comprehensive protection and recovery options in case of any data loss or corruption.

  • High Availability

    Benefit from a 99.999% uptime SLA, ensuring that your virtual desktops are always available when you need them.

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Flexible Operating Systems

Each virtual desktop can run on Windows, Linux, TraceLab’s VM, or a custom OS recipe you provide, allowing you to utilize the environment that best suits your needs.

Performance Specifications

With 4xvCPU, 6GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage reserved per instance, Alias ensures reliable performance for all your operational needs. Additionally, you can upgrade specific resources on a per instance basis if required.

Virtual Private Cloud

Alias instances are deployed within a dedicated, per-customer VPC ensuring complete network, compute, and memory isolation. Our multi-tenancy segmentation conforms to NIST-800, SOC2, and ISO27001 requirements.

Dedicated Compute

For enhanced performance and isolation, dedicated bare metal compute can be provided. Further customization can then be achieved such as limiting access to your existing corporate WAN and air-gapping from the public internet.

Customization and Flexibility

On-Demand Desktops

Deploy persistent or non-persistent desktops as needed, tailored to the specific requirements of each investigation or task.

Image Management

Effortlessly clone, backup, and restore desktop images, ensuring consistency across different instances and quick recovery from issues.

Gold Image Templates

Standardize your environments with gold image templates, reducing setup time and ensuring consistency across your organization.

Software Flexibility

Install any software you typically would on a physical machine, giving you full control over your investigative tools and workflows.

Integration with Third-Party Tools

Seamlessly integrate with third-party investigation tools, enhancing the capabilities of your virtual desktops and streamlining your investigative processes.

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