Using IP locations

With social media, if an IPv4 address comes in, you may want to resolve the IP address to an actual phone number or location. Operators such as Verizon often do not supply IPv6 for social media communication for example, Facebook and Instagram. They commonly provide an IP and port number. However they can provide a secondary search and provide you with a new phone number for a person if you provide them with the target's IPv4 address, port number and an exact time. The data that you download from the Frequent IP and Common IP analyses is what you can send them when you request a secondary search.

Once you have the location of an IP address you may want to add it to the case as a target location. If you do this then any social media traffic using the IP address is saved as a geolocation record and the device's location is then automatically displayed on for example the Sentinel screen. You can also select to include the IP address's location in the geofence, reverse geofence, multi-phone proximity and accuracy Smart Track alerts.

For more details, refer to the individual topics.