The most comprehensive mobile forensics management solution
Rapid growth and increasing demands of mobile forensics operations have made forensics environment difficult to manage.
XEC Director provides centralized management for mobile forensics so organisations stay in control as they scale. It connects all MSAB mobile forensic extraction tools into a single network, allowing teams to manage users, permissions, and licenses from one interface.
XEC Director
Product Highlights
- Manage from one centralized environment
- Track system usage and actions across your forensic environment
- Control users, licenses, and software updates centrally to reduce administrative overhead and errors
- Match system access to user skill levels
- Maintain visibility into available systems
- Provide remote assistance to users and enable IT teams to administer systems without being on-site
Features
- Control workflow sequences
- Manage Root Directory for extractions
- Specify extraction profiles
- Set localised time, date, and language
- Rules for filename creation
XEC Director is delivered via MSAB’s Customer Portal and can be installed to your existing equipment.
Why choose XEC Director?
- Lead your teams from a central control point and review the logs for all devices in your system.
- Detailed user control to see and manage all active users in your system remotely
- Powerful reporting capabilities to make more informed decisions and allocate resources better.
- Modern interface to enable you admin the system via network, using an intuitive and modern interface.
- Remote assistance to enable you update software, manage licenses and select automatic update routines for entire systems from one place.
- Automatic password updates to give you greater ease.
A partner in Frontline Forensics Management
XEC Director is the right partner in frontline forensics. From a single interface, you can streamline workflows, reduce administrative overhead, and ensure teams follow consistent, compliant processes.
In this blog post, we cover how XEC Director can help in frontline forensics.
System Requirements
System requirements
The requirements below are applicable for a smaller system with 5-10 clients. For larger system, we recommend that you contact MSAB Professional Services to get accurate system requirements.
XEC system requirements
| Item | Recommended | Minimum |
| OS | Windows Server 2022 | Windows Server 2019 |
| CPU | 4 vCPU, Intel 2.1 GHz quad cores or more | 2 vCPU, Intel 2.1 GHz quad cores or more |
| RAM | 8 GB | 4 GB |
| HDD | 50 GB | 25 GB |
| Network | 1 Gbit/s |
* Other file usage includes configuration files and software updates to be distributed to clients. The required size will depend on multiple factors, such as number of workflows, configurations, clients, software updates and more. Operating system requirements not included
SQL Database requirements
(added to XEC requirements if using the same server)
| Item | Recommended | Minimum |
| Database | Microsoft SQL Server 2022* | Microsoft SQL Server Express 2017** |
| Reporting | SQL Server Reporting Services 2022*** | SQL Server Reporting Services 2017*** |
| CPU | 2 vCPU, x64 2.0 GHz or more | 1 vCPU, x64 1.4 GHz or more |
| RAM | 4 GB | 1 GB |
| HDD | 50 GB | 10 GB |
| Network | 1 Gbit/s |
* Enterprise, Standard, or Developer version
** SQL Server Express has a limitation in 10GB storage and cannot be used for scheduled reports in XEC Director
*** The version of SQL Server must be the same as the version of SQL Server Reporting Services
Please note : The hardware requirements above are indicative and depends on several factors, like the number of connected client systems, their level of activity etc. The recommended requirements will not hold true for every environment but should rather be seen as a starting point that could be increased or decreased depending on server statistics.
MSAB TRAINING ACADEMY
Discover XEC Director
Empower your organization with expert-led sessions designed to help you configure XEC Director effectively. Learn how to centralize control, streamline workflows, and ensure your mobile forensic operations run efficiently as demands grow.
To get the most from XEC Director, we strongly recommend the on-demand training course.
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