Managed OpenAleph
Since 2020, we deploy exclusive and independent instances of the research platform for investigative newsrooms and research organizations. We take care of everything that otherwise would stop you from finding what you are looking for: Security, backups, maintenance, and everything else.
We ensure secure and legally compliant deployments. We operate our own physical server infrastructure in Germany, and, through our partnership with FlokiNET, we can also tailor the geolocation to your needs. Because we operate our own hardware, our infrastructure concept is very cost effective compared to cloud providers.
What's included
- Managed secure research infrastructure exclusively and adapted to each clients needs
- Regular security audits
- Server location in Germany or via FlokiNET in Romania, Finland, The Netherlands or Iceland
- Data and operating system fully encrypted (at rest)
- Nightly backups, storage replication
- Security and maintenance updates
- Temporarily upscaling of ingestors for huge leak imports
- DDOS protection
- Secure login with with Multi Factor Auth, or connect your own SSO
- Groups, user and permission management
- Optional integration into your VPN
- Constant development of new features
- Leak ingestion on our own secure infrastructure
On top of that, we also offer the following services:
- Building and maintaining data projects from data scraping to analysis and design
- Develop tools for data engineering
- Find and implement technical solutions to all kinds of unique problems that may arise within a data-driven investigation
- Consulting and training for data research, engineering and security in the context of investigative journalism
- Assisting with data research and cross-matching to find new leads
- Analyzing (huge) leaks