Amped Authenticate

Amped Authenticate is a software package for forensic image authentication and tamper detection on digital photos. It provides a suite of different tools to determine whether an image is an unaltered original, an original generated by a specific device, or the result of a manipulation with a photo editing software and thus may not be admissible as evidence.

Unveil the processing history of a digital image to determine if it can be used as reliable evidence

• Detect tampered areas in images
• Determine the authenticity of images and documents
• Analyze multiple images with batch tools
• Identify the device used to take the photo
• A collection of the most powerful, real-world-application authentication filters and techniques based on science

WHAT IS AMPED AUTHENTICATE?
Amped Authenticate is the leading forensic software for unveiling the processing history of a digital image. Amped Authenticate provides a suite of powerful tools to determine whether an image is an unaltered original, an original generated by a specific device, or the result of manipulation using a photo editing software, making its admissibility as evidence questionable. Amped Authenticate is used by digital forensic experts and intelligence agencies worldwide.

Authenticate is a collection of the most useful, real-world-application authentication filters and techniques identified by image analysts, based on hundreds of scientific papers and studies. These have been built into an easy-to-use, yet amazingly powerful interface to help investigators answer the many questions of authenticity and integrity surrounding today's digital images.

WHY AMPED AUTHENTICATE?
With the constant development and introduction of new digital technologies, digital images are now key sources of evidence for investigations. And thanks to social media and the prevalence of high-quality mobile phone cameras, there is a dramatic increase of images submitted as evidence by citizens and witnesses, to law enforcement agencies.
Modern digital images are mines of information: in addition to the visual content, metadata often contain precise information about when, where and who captured the image. But unfortunately, in just a few seconds, both visual content and metadata can now be easily manipulated to create credible fakes.
Without solid ways to validate that the information is accurate, these photographs could pose issues when they are presented as evidence in a case and in court. Therefore, thoroughly investigating an image and ensuring its trustworthiness and source is critical in today’s investigations.

It is also necessary to be able to link photographs to a specific camera and consequently to a suspect. Billions of images are uploaded to the internet and shared on social media platforms every day. Investigators are constantly faced with the task of trying to identify the person who posted the original photo on the internet. Linking a photo to a camera is now as important as linking a bullet to a gun.