Police services throughout the United Kingdom and the world are increasingly having to perform digital investigations, risky browsing, and open-source intelligence when they are called upon to investigate crimes. In today’s digital world, these skills are no longer optional to getting the job done, no matter the type of investigation.

The problem is, in this digital age, without a secure investigation toolkit, you risk alerting the suspects to the fact they are being investigated, causing delays and loss of critical or time-sensitive data – not to mention the risk of infecting your corporate devices/network with malware, viruses and other problematic software.

Even using a specific ‘off-network’ computer has risks and requires the users to be physically removed from their corporate machine and networks which can lead to user error, slowdowns, or even mistakes linking the activity back to the investigation.

Network-based solutions, such as VPNs or the TOR network, only provide anonymity from a network perspective, but they do not protect against various other methods of tracking users, such as browser fingerprinting, that do not rely on the user’s point of presence on the internet. While anti-tracking services, such as incognito or privacy mode may provide some measure of protection against tracking, these do not provide true non-attribution as advances in systems, behaviour and fingerprinting render these protections obsolete.

Based upon years of supporting the Defence and Intelligence communities around the world, Kasm understands the importance of security and anonymity while running a digital investigation.

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Kasm Workspaces is a zero-trust, web-native intermediary where all activity is executed in an anonymous public cloud, 100% isolated from the user’s device and network. Every user’s session is destroyed after each use, ensuring system or network-based methods of activity tracking cannot be used to trace the activity back to the origin. Since web content never directly interacts with the user’s computer, they able to remain private, anonymous and untraceable – while user experience enhancements ensure users feel as if they are experiencing the tools from your workstation.

Kasm isn’t just a platform for open-source intelligence. Organisation around the world use Kasm to perform digital investigations that span crypto-currency, fraud, ransomware investigations, malware analysis and more.

As a platform, Kasm ensures investigators have the tools they need to perform their investigations, including applications like Maltego, Hunchly and even an Android emulator built into core investigation workspaces. In addition to core tools, Kasm allows you to manage your attribution with built-in and BYO-VPN capabilities, ensuring that your investigations cannot be traced back to you.

With commercial entities, government agencies, and police services, around the world in Europe, North America, Australia and Asia using Kasm for their digital investigations you can be sure you have the ultimate protection from attribution and cyber threats keeping you safe and anonymous no matter where you are.

The industry will once again be gathering at the NEC, Birmingham for The Emergency Tech Show, co-located with The Emergency Services Show, on 17-18 September, check out the full exhibitor list here. You can find Kasm in Hall 4, Stand H120.

Nick Haw is a speaker on the ‘Wicked problems in policing and what tech can do to solve them’ panel, taking place on 17 Sep 2025, 11:00 – 11:50, on the Emergency Tech Leaders’ Stage.

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