Comprehensive, Automated Digital Personas for Seamless Investigations

SockPuppet offers a fully integrated, managed attribution platform designed to streamline the creation, management, and maintenance of virtual personas (Sockpuppets) for cybersecurity analysts and OSINT researchers. The platform simplifies the complex process of maintaining digital identities, ensuring they remain undetectable, authentic, and operational across multiple platforms.

Key Components of the Platform

Persistent Virtual Desktops

Each Alias instance includes an always-on cloud-based desktop, customizable to your investigative needs. With persistent storage and isolated environments, all activities remain separate and secure.

Persistent Virtual Desktops

Each SockPuppet instance includes an always-on cloud-based desktop, customizable to your investigative needs. With persistent storage and isolated environments, all activities remain separate and secure.

Virtual Phones

Equip your virtual personas with cloud-based virtual phones that match the regional characteristics of your choice. These phones allow for realistic and untraceable communication, enabling you to interact on platforms and apps that require phone verification, just like a real user.

Virtual Phones

Equip your virtual personas with cloud-based virtual phones that match the regional characteristics of your choice. These phones allow for realistic and untraceable communication, enabling you to interact on platforms and apps that require phone verification, just like a real local user.

Real Consumer Connectivity

Alias provides access to genuine end-user internet connectivity in the geographic region you select—avoiding VPNs, datacenter IPs, and other easily flagged network sources. Your digital identities appear to be regular local users, with traffic routed through real consumer networks outside of the virtual environment, ensuring natural, believable attribution.

Mobile Connectivity

Experience 5G or LTE mobile connectivity provided by local carriers in the specific geographic region you choose. Unlike standard VPNs or proxies, our platform connects your instances to the internet through mobile networks outside of the virtual device itself, making it indistinguishable from those of local consumers.

SMS Integration

Access region-specific SMS numbers tied to local mobile operators, ensuring that your Sockpuppet’s communication aligns with its geographical footprint. This feature is essential for setting up and maintaining accounts on social media and other platforms that require SMS verification, eliminating the need for disposable or burner phones.

SMS Integration

Access region-specific SMS numbers tied to local mobile operators, ensuring that your SockPuppet’s communication aligns with its geographical footprint. This feature is essential for setting up and maintaining accounts on social media and other platforms that require SMS verification, eliminating the need for disposable or burner phones.

Evidence Memorialization

Alias offers optional full-session screen recording across both the virtual desktop and virtual phone, capturing everything that occurs during an investigation for review, training, or evidentiary use. Recordings can be played back, downloaded, or integrated with third-party case-management platforms to maintain a clear chain of custody. Each instance also includes ForensicOSINT, enabling high-clarity, court-admissible screen captures, full-page preservation, and legally-tailored evidence reports with secure authentication.

Forensic OSINT Integration

Enhance your investigations with ForensicOSINT, bundled with each instance of Alias. Memorialize evidence with hashed high-clarity screenshots, videos, full web page capture, and generate legally-tailored reports with secure authentication and detailed evidence continuity.

Managed Attribution

Our platform empowers  you to customize your online presence, ensuring that your activities align with your intended identity. Whether you’re conducting sensitive research or engaging in discreet investigations, you can confidently manage how your online persona is perceived, enhancing both security and operational success.

Secure File Vault

Each Alias instance includes a dedicated Secure File Vault for safe, bi-directional file transfer between your local environment and the virtual workspace. Files never come into direct contact, preserving segmentation and maintaining operational security. This out-of-band transfer workflow allows you to securely move evidence, reports, downloads, and exports without exposing your identity or device.

Identity Management System

Alias includes a built-in system for managing every component of your digital identities, including PII, profile photos, backstories, and account credentials, securely in one place. Identities stay fully organized and contained within the platform, eliminating the need to store sensitive persona data on local devices or external systems where it can be exposed. This ensures consistency, operational security, and clean separation between real users and investigative personas.

Customer-Controlled Encryption

For organizations with heightened security requirements, Alias supports customer-owned encryption keys for all virtual devices and stored data. This ensures that SockPuppet, infrastructure providers, and third parties cannot access your investigative environments or evidence. You retain full control over key management, safeguarding sensitive workflows and maintaining strict data sovereignty.

Managed Attribution

Our platform empowers  you to customize your online presence, ensuring that your activities align with your intended identity. Whether you’re conducting sensitive research or engaging in discreet investigations, you can confidently manage how your online persona is perceived, enhancing both security and operational success.

Secure File Vault

Each Alias instance includes a dedicated Secure File Vault for safe, bi-directional file transfer between your local environment and the virtual workspace. Files never come into direct contact, preserving segmentation and maintaining operational security. This out-of-band transfer workflow allows you to securely move evidence, reports, downloads, and exports without exposing your identity or device.

Identity Management System

Alias includes a built-in system for managing every component of your digital identities, including PII, profile photos, backstories, and account credentials, securely in one place. Identities stay fully organized and contained within the platform, eliminating the need to store sensitive persona data on local devices or external systems where it can be exposed. This ensures consistency, operational security, and clean separation between real users and investigative personas.

Customer-Controlled Encryption

For organizations with heightened security requirements, Alias supports customer-owned encryption keys for all virtual devices and stored data. This ensures that SockPuppet, infrastructure providers, and third parties cannot access your investigative environments or evidence. You retain full control over key management, safeguarding sensitive workflows and maintaining strict data sovereignty.

How it works

Access and manage your Sockpuppets seamlessly through our intuitive web portal. Here’s what you can do:

  • End-to-End Sockpuppet & Instance Management

    Create and manage full digital identities with Virtual Desktops, Virtual Phones, SMS numbers, and realistic consumer-grade connectivity.

  • Identity & Attribution Control

    Maintain each persona’s PII, backstory, photos, and account credentials, while customizing region, device profile, OS, browser fingerprint, and language for realistic attribution.

  • Secure File Vault & Segmented Evidence Handling

    Transfer files in and out of Alias environments without direct exposure to your local machine, preserving OPSEC and chain of custody.

  • Built-In Evidence Capture & Activity Logging

    Generate and store screenshots, session recordings, and audit logs automatically for reporting, court-ready preservation, or internal oversight.

  • Role-Based Access & Case Organization

    Group Sockpuppets by case, assign analysts, control access permissions, and maintain a single pane of glass for investigative visibility and collaboration.

Benefits of Using Alias

Strengthen Operational Security (OPSEC)

Protect your organization, investigators, and sources by ensuring that personas remain untraceable, unassociated, and safeguarded against external threats.

Enhance Persona Validity

Maintain credibility by ensuring each digital identity is consistent with real-world attributes like location, device, and household, reducing the risk of detection or blocking by online platforms.

Minimize Risks

Reduce the likelihood of being targeted or influenced by those under investigation, while avoiding bias and manipulation by online platforms through the use of unique, project-specific sockpuppets.

Save Time and Money

Achieve significant cost savings by replacing the traditional approach of deploying individual laptops and burner phones with Alias’s centralized platform, which offers a more efficient and scalable solution compared to managing physical devices or public cloud environments.

Seamless Integration with Your Workflow

Alias integrates with your existing tools and workflows, providing a seamless experience that enhances efficiency without disrupting your operations. Whether you need virtual desktops, mobile devices, or specialized connectivity, Alias has you covered.

Get Started with SockPuppet Today

Let’s build your next identity together.

Contact SockPuppet today to discuss your operational needs and see how Alias can power your next investigation.