Most forensic tools automate a single analyst's workflow. We didn't build that.
We built a team. A full investigation team that deploys in minutes — domain specialists in memory forensics, disk analysis, network investigation, malware analysis, and threat intelligence — coordinated by a case orchestrator that directs the investigation the way a senior IR lead would.
They work in parallel. They share findings in real time. And they build a connected map of the entire incident as they go — not after the fact, not from scattered notes, but as a living, queryable investigation graph.
Here's what that actually looks like.
Eight specialists. Working simultaneously.
In a traditional investigation, one analyst works one evidence source at a time. Protectron deploys an entire team — each specialist focused on what it does best, all of them working in parallel, their findings automatically informing each other's analysis.
Case Orchestrator
the strategic brainThis is the senior IR lead you wish you could clone. It receives the investigator's questions, plans the analysis strategy, decides which specialists to deploy — and in what order — synthesizes findings across domains, and builds the investigation narrative. It's doing the strategic thinking while the specialists do the deep analysis.
Memory Analyst
Examines what was running in active memory — processes, injected code, network connections at the time of capture. This is where you find malware that only exists in RAM and never touches disk. The kind of evidence that disappears the moment someone reboots the machine.
Disk Analyst
Examines file systems — timelines, deleted files, Master File Table entries, artifacts showing what programs ran and when. Recovers evidence the attacker tried to remove. Because deleting a file doesn't actually erase it — and Protectron knows where to look.
Network Analyst
Maps every external communication — which servers were contacted, what data transferred, what protocols used. Identifies command-and-control infrastructure. This is how you answer "did data leave the building?"
Windows Analyst
Analyzes event logs with industry-standard Sigma detection rules, registry entries, scheduled tasks, prefetch files, jump lists. Detects logon anomalies, persistence mechanisms, and privilege escalation — the breadcrumbs attackers leave in Windows artifacts.
Malware Analyst
Identifies and analyzes malicious software — static analysis of code structure, behavioral analysis of actions, YARA signature scanning. What it does, how it persists, what it communicates with. Answers the question: "what exactly did this thing do?"
Threat Intel Connector
Cross-references every finding against known threats — matching indicators to attacker groups, malware families, and active campaigns. Maps findings to MITRE ATT&CK. Turns isolated artifacts into attributed intelligence.
The difference isn't just speed. When specialists work in parallel, they find things sequential analysis misses. The Memory Analyst finds a suspicious process. The Network Analyst simultaneously identifies unusual external communication. The Disk Analyst finds a file dropped at the same timestamp. Correlation that would take a human analyst hours — or that might never happen at all — happens automatically.
Every finding, connected. Every claim, traceable.
This is not a flat report sitting in a Word document. It's a queryable, connected map of everything that happened — every entity, every relationship, every finding, every piece of evidence, all linked together.
Ask "show me every system the attacker touched" and get an answer in seconds. Follow the chain from initial compromise through lateral movement to data exfiltration. See how memory evidence connects to network evidence connects to disk artifacts. The connections that take manual analysts days to establish — they're built automatically as the investigation progresses.
And here's what matters most for defensibility: every claim in every report is a view of this graph. Every assertion traces to specific evidence. Pull on any finding and you can see exactly what evidence supports it, which tools produced it, and how confident the system is in the conclusion.
What the graph captures
Processes · Files · Network connections · Accounts · Hosts · DNS queries · Services · Certificates · IOCs · MITRE ATT&CK mappings · Findings with confidence levels · Evidence provenance · Timelines
The investigation doesn't stall because someone forgot to export a log
In a traditional investigation, the analyst asks IT to pull specific evidence. IT queues the request. Hours pass — sometimes days. The investigation is blocked until the data arrives. Then the analyst realizes they need something else, and the cycle repeats.
Protectron's agents actively collect what they need from live endpoints, cloud platforms, and security tools. Mid-investigation, if the Memory Analyst finds a suspicious process, it can request a deeper collection from the endpoint — immediately. If the Network Analyst identifies a C2 domain, the Threat Intel Connector automatically checks threat intelligence feeds.
Collection and analysis happen simultaneously. The investigation moves at the speed of the analysis, not the speed of the request queue.
What you get at the end
Not one report. A complete investigation record with reports tailored to every stakeholder — each one generated from the same underlying evidence and graph. Consistent, traceable, defensible.
Executive Summary
For the board and leadership — high-level incident overview, business impact, key findings. The answers to the questions they're actually asking.
Technical Analysis
For your security team — deep forensic findings, evidence walkthrough, methodology. Every technical claim backed by specific artifacts.
Timeline
Chronological event reconstruction for all stakeholders. From initial compromise to remediation — what happened, when, and how we know.
IOC Inventory
Every indicator of compromise — with context, confidence levels, and MITRE ATT&CK mappings. Ready for threat hunting and containment.
Remediation Plan
Prioritized recommendations for IT and security teams. Not generic best practices — specific actions based on what the investigation actually found.
The Investigation Graph
The primary artifact. Everything else is derived from it. Queryable, connected, independently verifiable. Every entity, every finding, every relationship — all with full evidence provenance. This is what survives cross-examination.
"But what if the AI is wrong?"
Fair question. AI can produce errors — we're not going to pretend otherwise. That's exactly why we built a four-tier validation pipeline between raw AI output and the investigation record. Nothing the AI produces goes straight into a finding. Everything is validated, enriched, and assessed for confidence first.
Here's the pipeline every observation passes through:
L0 — Raw Observation
The AI produces a structured finding. Timestamped, tagged with the producing agent. This is raw output — a starting point, not a conclusion.
L1 — Validated
Schema conformance checked. Duplicates removed. Cross-referenced against existing observations. Does this even make sense structurally?
L2 — Enriched
Threat intelligence lookups. IOC matching. Contextual enrichment from other observations and evidence sources. The finding gains context and corroboration — or doesn't.
L3 — Graph-Ready
Entities extracted, relationships mapped, truth level assessed. Only now does it enter the investigation graph. Every node carries its confidence level and full evidence provenance. Nothing is asserted without proof.
Your data never leaves your building
Protectron is self-hosted on your infrastructure. Not "hosted in our secure cloud" — on your servers, behind your firewall, under your control. Your forensic evidence never touches an external network.
Air-gap compatible for the most sensitive environments — full functionality without internet access. Local authentication with Argon2id. No external dependencies, no telemetry, no phone-home. Because when you're investigating a breach, the last thing you need is your investigation tool sending data somewhere you can't control.
Self-hosted on your infrastructure · Air-gap compatible with local auth · Role-based access — Admin, Investigator, Viewer