The Balance Between Digital Forensic Examiners And Digital Evidence Technicians: Expertise Vs. Efficiency

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Can digital forensic labs cut backlogs without cutting corners? Debbie Garner explores how tiered workflows using both examiners and technicians can strike the right balance....

Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

Forensic Focus Digest, August 08 2025

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore the balance between expertise and efficiency in digital forensics, tackle the challenges of multi-jurisdictional investigations, and learn how transforming organisational culture can improve mental health in the field....read more

More Than Software: Amped Training Teaches You The Science Of Forensic Video And Image Analysis

More Than Software: Amped Training Teaches You The Science Of Forensic Video And Image Analysis

Push past button-clicking—Amped Software training teaches the science behind forensic video analysis....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025

Read the latest DFIR news – starting a digital forensic business, Hashcat v7.0.0, GenAI incident response guidance, cross-border investigation challenges, and more....read more

Kathy Helenek, Senior Forensic Examiner, Gillware

Kathy, you're a Senior Forensic Examiner and eDiscovery Specialist at Gillware. Tell us more about your role – what does a typical day look like for you? Each day I’m interacting with clients, whether it be scoping for a new

What’s New In BlackBag’s Latest Release Of BlackLight 2019 R2

BlackLight 2019 R2 is packed full of powerful features you need to complete your investigations more quickly. This release includes new methods to find and export data how and where you need it. From partnerships to connect BlackLight with other

Interview With Guillermo Román Ferrero, Incident Response Expert

Guillermo, how did you become interested in digital forensics? I started studying digital forensics when I was still at university with a specific course on the matter. I found it very interesting to be able to investigate what an attacker

Guillermo Román Ferrero, Incident Response Expert

Guillermo Román Ferrero works as an Incident Response Expert for a Computer Security Incident Response Team. He is also a prolific author with his Follow the White Rabbit blog. Mr. Ferrero tried Belkasoft's digital forensics solutions recently and kindly agreed

What’s Happening In Forensics – Sep 23, 2019

Antonio Sanz provides a writeup of Defcon DFIR CTF: Memory Forensics. Salt4n6 talks about the forensic implications of Swipe to Type. Devon Ackerman reports how 281 people have been arrested for their participation in Business Email Compromise schemes. Cellebrite’s Shahar

What’s Happening In Forensics – Sep 19, 2019

MSAB share a white paper detailing four critical success factors in mobile forensics. Cellebrite’s Joanna Shemesh talks about how digital intelligence can help solve the problem of knife crime in England. SalvationDATA share a case study showing how to retrieve

BlackBag Now Provides Law Enforcement Agencies With AI-Based Image Recognition

BlackBag assists law enforcement agencies with AI based image recognition technology to help with child abuse investigations in the latest release of BlackLight. The significant advances in neural networks and AI based computer recognition allows machines to accurately recognize and

How To Use Text Analytics With Rosoka Integration

Hi, I’m Rich Frawley and I’m the Digital Forensic Specialist with ADF Solutions. Today we are going to explore the text analytics capabilities built into ADF’s digital forensic software with the integration of Rosoka. Rosoka brings the power of automated

How To Use Text Analytics With Rosoka Integration

Hi, I’m Rich Frawley and I’m the Digital Forensic Specialist with ADF Solutions. Today we are going to explore the text analytics capabilities built into ADF’s digital forensic software with the integration of Rosoka.  Rosoka brings the power of automated

What’s Happening In Forensics – Sep 18, 2019

Liam Barry shares his experience of the Magnet User Summit. Arman Gungor talks about how to uncover timestamps in forensic email examination. Ewen O’Brien, writing in Digital Forensics Magazine, talks about how stress and burnout are two huge security and

Sneak Peak Of New Belkasoft Evidence Center 2020

Belkasoft announces the upcoming release of its Belkasoft Evidence Center 2020 v.9.7. The new version significantly expands the mobile forensics and remote acquisition. Among new features are acquisition of MTK based devices; acquisition via MTP/PTP protocols; iTunes backups support for

What’s Happening In Forensics – Sep 16, 2019

Craig Hinkley talks about preventing burnout for cybersecurity and digital forensics professionals. Cellebrite’s UFED Chinex Kit can now extract data from non-standard Chinese phones.