Law enforcement agencies have to address various threats to the public, with Illegal activities continuing to grow due to the increasing use of and easy access to social media as well as the surface, deep and dark web. Criminals, terrorists, and other threat actors exploit the web to leverage their activities.

Law enforcement officers, detectives, private investigators, and military intelligence staff have been using an increasing amount of technology over the years. The use of technology is aimed at investigative functions within intelligence organizations (cyber threat intelligence, financial crime, law enforcement).

It combines advanced link analysis, Business Intelligence (BI), big data monitoring, operational intelligence monitoring, data discovery, and search. Big data, coupled with algorithms and machine learning, has become a central theme of intelligence, security, defense, anti-terrorism, and crime policy efforts.