Organize evidence with profiles

Profiles help you organize evidence and identify artifacts that are important to your investigation. For example, you might create a profile called Target A to group the various user names and phone numbers used by that person of interest and then filter evidence to see only activity related to that person. You can view all of the profiles that are applied to an artifact in Tags, comments & profiles.

Note: Profiles are available only when you select the Identifiers artifact.

Create a profile

Create and apply profiles to associate identifiers (for example, user names and email addresses) with persons of interest. After you apply profiles, you can use the Profiles filter to show only the evidence that is associated with that individual.

  1. In AXIOM Examine, on the Tools menu, click Manage profiles.
  2. Click Add profile and provide a name for the profile.
  3. Click Add.
  4. Click Okay.

Apply a profile

When you apply a profile to a specific identifier, AXIOM Examine applies that profile to every artifact in the case that has that exact identifier.

  1. In AXIOM Examine, in the Artifacts explorer, expand the Refined results group, and click Identifiers.
  2. In Evidence, select the identifier or group of identifiers you want to apply a profile to.
  3. In Tags, comments & profilesTags and comments, select the check boxes beside the profiles that you want to associate the identifier with.

Import profiles

You can import a list of profiles in AXIOM Examine. Files must be JSON or TXT format and each profile value must appear on its own line.

  1. In AXIOM Examine, on the Tools menu, click Manage profiles.
  2. Click Import profiles.
  3. Browse to the JSON or TXT file you want to import.
  4. Click Open.
  5. Optionally, customize the profile names.
  6. Click Okay.

Export profiles

You can export your list of profiles to share with other examiners. You can export your list of profiles to either JSON or TXT format.

  1. In AXIOM Examine, on the Tools menu, click Manage profiles.
  2. Click Export profiles.
  3. Browse to the location you want to save your profiles.
  4. In the File name field, provide a name for the file.
  5. From the Save as type drop-down, select the file format you want to use.
  6. Click Save.
  7. Click Okay.