About Drakontas LLC
Drakontas (www.drakontas.com),
headquartered in Camden, New
Jersey, develops mobile
collaboration software that
increase the safety and
operational efficiency of law
enforcement, emergency
response, and security personnel.
 The company was founded in
partnership with Drexel University
in 2004 to transition
technologies developed at the
Applied Communications and
Information Networking (ACIN)
Center for the Department of
Defense to commercial, civilian
and homeland security uses.
About Drexel University
Drexel University (www.drexel.edu)
is a nationally ranked private
institution located in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.  It has received a
Carnegie Foundation ranking of
doctoral granting university with
high research activity.  Drexel has
positioned itself as a leader in the
fields of electronic crime and
digital forensics research and
education.  Its research and
educational activities in these
areas have addressed technical,
behavioral, and legal issues related
to electronic fraud, seizing cell
phones, computer-facilitated
sexual exploitation of children,
terrorism, online harassment,
intellectual property theft, network
intrusions, and techniques to hide
criminal activity in cyberspace.  
Drexel has received funding from
the National Institute of Justice, the
Bureau of Justice Assistance, the
U.S. Department of Education, and
the U.S. Department of Defense to
support this work. The university
continues to support the law
enforcement community by
providing consultation to agencies
on computer technologies
encountered during investigations
and through workforce
development courses on electronic
crime investigative techniques.   
Through a Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of
Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice Assistance, Drakontas will partner with Drexel
University and BKForensics to train the law enforcement community about crimes
committed using mobile, handheld devices and related investigative forensic
techniques and tools

CAMDEN, NJ– Drakontas LLC announced today that the Bureau of Justice Assistance,
an office of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs had awarded it a
Cooperative Agreement to develop and implement a first-of-its-kind training and
technical assistance program for law enforcement professionals about crimes and
investigative techniques related to mobile, handheld devices, including cellular
telephones, smartphones, tablets, gaming platforms and GPS-enabled personal
navigation devices.

“Today, more than ever before, criminals are exploiting mobile, handheld technologies
to facilitate traditional crimes through text messaging, embedded chat capabilities in
smartphone applications, and other unmonitored communications channels enabled
by these platforms.  “These capabilities often give rise to new methods for criminal
activity, thereby making law enforcement’s job increasingly difficult,” said Dr. Brian
Regli, CEO of Drakontas LLC and co-Principal Investigator of the Cooperative
Agreement.  “Handheld devices hold vast amounts of data that law enforcement can
extract during an investigation; however, without proper training of these technologies,
law enforcement professionals will quickly lose the upper hand in combating criminals
in their use of handheld technologies for illicit purposes.”

Drakontas, in partnership with Drexel University and BKForensics, a software and
training provider based in Warrington, PA, will develop a distance learning and train-
the-trainer program for State and local law enforcement to educate them on the threats
and vulnerabilities of handheld technologies, how criminals are exploiting them, and
the appropriate forensic techniques for locating critical information and data on these
devices during their investigations.
Award for Training Program to Educate Stakeholders about Crimes
Committed using Handheld Devices
For additional information and registration
Immediate Release January 3, 2012
About BKForensics
BKForensics, LLC (www.
bkforensics.com) was established
in 2004 to develop hardware,
software, and training solutions in
the area of cell phone forensics.  
The company is comprised of
academics and law enforcement
professionals from local, state and
federal agencies worldwide.  Its
personnel are recognized by the
courts as experts in the field of
cell phone forensics and
investigations.  BKForensics was
the first company to develop
software to automatically process
the physical memory dump of cell
phones, providing examiners
access to deleted data and
images.  Its cell phone forensics
training provides a vendor-neutral
approach to the examination of
cell phone and SIM cards.
Through its Mobile Phone Seizure
Certification course BKForensics
has trained over 4,500 law
enforcement professionals
worldwide.



About the Bureau of Justice
Assistance
The Bureau of Justice Assistance
(BJA) (www.bja.gov) is a
component of the Office of
Justice Programs, U.S.
Department of Justice that
supports law enforcement, courts,
corrections, treatment, victim
services, technology, and
prevention initiatives that
strengthen the nation’s criminal
justice system.
 
Disclaimer
This project was supported by Grant No. 2011-BE-BX-K001, awarded by the Bureau of Justice
Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which
also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the Office of Sex Offender
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