Belkasoft X Forensic vs Cydarm

Belkasoft X Forensic acquires, analyzes, and reports digital evidence from computers, mobile devices, RAM, cars, drones, and cloud sources. Its acquisition options include DD/E01 imaging, iOS checkm8 and agent-based acquisition, and several Android methods. Analysis features include timeline and connection graph views, SQLite recovery, hash-set analysis, file carving, and picture and video analysis. The software can examine UFED and GrayKey images, virtual machines, Amazon S3-based images, Berla car exports, and data from services including Google Drive, iCloud, Microsoft 365, WhatsApp, and Telegram. Reports can be produced in formats such as HTML, XML, CSV, PDF, Excel, Word, ProjectVIC JSON, and Relativity Short Message Format. Colleagues can view shared findings with the free Evidence Reader, whether or not X Forensic is installed. The product is self-hosted and offered to government customers only. Its license is perpetual, with optional annual software maintenance and support; pricing is provided by quote. A 30-day trial requires internet access. Trial reports contain half of randomly selected artifacts, and several acquisition, decryption, virtual-machine, and command-line automation features are excluded. The company describes it as suited to digital forensic laboratories at federal and state-level law-enforcement agencies.

Cydarm is a cyber incident response management platform for security operations teams. It combines case management, data enrichment, editable playbooks, reporting, collaboration, and response-time SLAs. Teams can assign tasks using an open-source playbook format, while attribute-based access controls restrict visibility from whole cases down to individual comments or data types. Listed integrations include OpenAPI, email polling, webhooks, Jira, ServiceNow, Teams, PagerDuty, Slack, and SMS. Cydarm is offered as a hosted managed service or an enterprise deployment on a customer’s infrastructure, with web, API, and self-hosted platforms. It supports SSO through Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Google, and AWS, with no SSO fee. Cydarm Technologies states it meets ISO 27001:2022 requirements and has achieved certification. Security information describes disk encryption, TLS 1.2 or higher, dedicated hosted infrastructure, and network segmentation. Pricing is on request; a 30-day trial costs nothing and needs no credit card.