# PenLink **Entity class:** Investigative communications and data-analysis company and platform ## Definition **PenLink** provides software for analyzing communications, telecommunications metadata, internet-derived information, and other investigative data. DHS documentation identifies PenLink integration with HSI's [[wiki/Telecommunications Linking System|Telecommunications Linking System]]. ## Relationships - **integrates with:** [[wiki/Telecommunications Linking System|TLS]] and [[wiki/Investigative Case Management|ICM]]. - **OSINT products:** [[wiki/PenLink Tangles and Webloc|Tangles + Webloc]]. - **supports:** [[wiki/Link Analysis|link analysis]] and investigative workflows. ## Sources / Provenance - [DHS — ICM Privacy Impact Assessment, 2016](https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy-pia-ice-icm-june2016.pdf)