Common Caches

File Sharing Software For Digital Evidence

Welcome to Common Caches, digital evidence solutions for public sector, private sector, and not-for-profit use cases.

Product Information

c2share is a digital evidence management application configured to support file-sharing and tip line use cases.

• Upload components: contact information, location, note, files
• Upload any file type: video, audio, images, documents, applications, binaries
• Unlimited upload portals: standing, per-event, private sites. Share QR code or URL.
• Anonymous uploads: Personal information not required to upload, sender's IP address not stored
• Customizable upload portals : Banner, logo, instructions, emergency message, on/off upload components, CSS style sheet
• Embedded upload portals: Integrate into existing websites and apps
• Flexible deployments: SaaS, SaaS with bring-your-own storage, customer-hosted. Set primary, backup, and DMZ storage locations. learn more
• Non-disruptive: Stand-alone or integrate with existing ways of working
• Activity log: Operational transparency, chain of custody, easy export, easy search, over 100 actions logged
• Sharing: Export single items, whole uploads, share with system users, export to other users, no content silos
• Triage: Identify most relevant items first, reduce time-to-evidence, reduce time-to-share
• Encryption: In-transit, at-rest, plug-and-play algorithm
• Hashing: Multiple hashing of uploaded items (patent pending)
• Security/CJIS controls: Timeout after inactivity, lockout after unsuccessful logins, password length, mandatory password reset

Flexible Deployment Details

c2share is platform-agnostic and available in a variety of network environments and business models.

• Compute (virtual linux server)
• Object storage w/S3 API protocol support. Available with or without backup
• Network security for compute/storage (firewall, DDOS, IDS/IPS)

• Compute (virtual linux server)
• S3 API protocol support
• Network security for compute (firewall, DDOS, IDS/IPS)

• Multiple virtual platform support
• S3 API protocol support

• No Backup. Operate with storage at a single site.
• Backup. Operate with primary and backup storage. Backups are performed real-time.
• DMZ. Create a 'holding area' where files can receive additional scrutiny before being added to primary storage.

• Operate in an air-gapped or reverse-proxy network
• Requires additional map server

Use Cases

Some of the use cases for c2share:

• Law Enforcement: Lightweight DEMS, tip line, share with other agencies, fusion centers, prosecutors.
• Legal Professionals: File sharing for legal documentation, ensuring confidentiality and accessibility.
• Corporate Legal/Security/Compliance: Confidential reporting and file sharing internal and external to an organization.
• Retailers/Property Owners/Casinos: On-premises tip line and file-sharing with law enforcement/security.
• NGO/Not-for-Profit: Communicate with individuals or communities in danger. Operate in contested environments.
• Communities: Citizens and businesses working with law enforcement to keep an area safe.
• Commercial and Tribal Gaming: Consistent, controlled, secure handling of digital evidence internally and externally. learn more

Commercial and Tribal Gaming Use Case

• Property Owner (legal, compliance, IT, physical security, investigations)
• Regulatory/Oversight/Commission
• Law Enforcement/Prosecutor/Courts

• Problem Statement
  • Inconsistent handling of digital evidence, surveillance videos internally, for administrative purposes, with regulatory bodies, law enforcement, or prosecutors.
  • Use of hard drives and USBs to move files is expensive, time-consuming, and poses a security risk.
  • Gaming properties in different jurisdictions subject to different rules/laws, increasing operational complexity.

• c2share Solution
  • Single evidence-sharing application for control and visibility.
  • Decreased liability that items are lost or compromised.
  • Decreased physical media and transportation costs.