3rd September 2026

“The Skills And Resilience To Do One Of The Hardest Jobs In Policing” — Why This DFIR Recruitment Language Gets The Evidence Wrong
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Does recruiting for “resilience” risk putting responsibility in the wrong place? Paul Gullon-Scott looks at what the evidence says about digital forensic well-being, workload and organisational support, and why the language we use matters....

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Forensic Focus Digest, September 04 2026

Forensic Focus Digest, September 04 2026

4th September 2026

Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore practical ways to tackle forensic backlogs with Atola Technology, learn best practices for AI-assisted investigations with Cellebrite, and more....read more

Belkasoft Named A Major Player In The IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

Belkasoft Named A Major Player In The IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

3rd September 2026

Belkasoft has been named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment - a milestone that reflects the maturity of Belkasoft X and the company's continued innovation in AI-powered digital forensics....read more

Cellebrite Genesis: Turn Digital Evidence Into Actionable Leads In Minutes

Cellebrite Genesis: Turn Digital Evidence Into Actionable Leads In Minutes

3rd September 2026

See how Cellebrite Genesis uses agentic AI to help enterprise investigative teams cut through complex digital evidence, uncover connections, and move from data to actionable leads in minutes....read more

BitLocker experience (forum discussion)

Thought I'd share a recent experience. I'm an internal corporate resource in a team of one (i.e. me). We had to get images of a number of Win7 Enterprise machines, some from "close by" and some from another continent. Corporate

Interview with Mary Aiken, Cyberpsychologist, RSCI

Mary, you're currently Professor and Director at the RCSI's CyberPsychology Research Centre. Tell us a bit about your role and what a typical day looks like. I am a CyberPsychologist and Director of the RCSI CyberPsychology Research Centre, I am

Mary Aiken, Cyberpsychologist, RSCI

Mary, you're currently Professor and Director at the RCSI's CyberPsychology Research Centre. Tell us a bit about your role and what a typical day looks like. I am a CyberPsychologist and Director of the RCSI CyberPsychology Research Centre, I am

TDFCon 2015 – Middlesbrough 15th May

On May 15th 2015, Forensic Focus will be attending TDFCon – the Teesside Digital Forensics Conference – at Teesside University, Middlesbrough. If there are any topics you would like us to cover in-depth, or if there are any speakers you

Nominate Your Peers! Secure View Gives Back

In honor of Thursday’s release of Secure View 4, Susteen will be donating Four free Secure View kits to Law Enforcement agencies in need. Secure View Advanced Mobile Forensic software can acquire data from thousands of phones with industry leading

TDFCon 2015 – Middlesbrough 15th May

On May 15th 2015, Forensic Focus will be attending TDFCon – the Teesside Digital Forensics Conference – at Teesside University, Middlesbrough. If there are any topics you would like us to cover in-depth, or if there are any speakers you

ReclaiMe Introduces BTRFS Recovery

ReclaiMe – the only data recovery vendor providing BTRFS recovery BTRFS is a filesystem from Linux which has several distinctive features such as copy-on-write, checksumming, data scrubbing, and more. ReclaiMe Data Recovery Company integrated a new data recovery algorithm using

Webinar: Policing the digital crimes of today

Date/Time: Tuesday 5th May, 4pm BST/11am EDT Speakers: Paul Slater, Director of Forensic Solutions EMEA at Nuix and Troy Bettencourt, Sales Engineer NA at Nuix Investigators who are working with legacy digital forensic tools and faced with shrinking budgets often

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. How would you acquire data from a password protected MS Surface Pro? Forum members discuss malware risk mitigation on forensic workstations. How can a split E01 image of

Head replacement tools for “landing zone” HDDs

Very important part of HDD functioning is a principle of heads parking while device is turned off. During the decades of HDD development, numerous improvements in this area were seen. These changes positively affected data security, capacity, product lifetime and

Taking Down Fraud Sites is Whac-a-Mole

I’ve been doing quite a bit of public speaking lately — usually about cybercrime and underground activity — and there’s one question that nearly always comes from the audience: “Why are these fraud Web sites allowed to operate, and not

Expert-Level (ISC)2 CCFP Digital Forensics Training Available from May-July

From May 11-July 1, 2015, (ISC)2 is delivering Live OnLine Training courses to provide expert-level instruction for those interested in attaining CCFP certification (Certified Cyber Forensics Professional). The courses are delivered through the (ISC)2 Learning Center, a centralized platform that

Interview with Matt Davies, Digital Forensics Analyst, Sytech

Matt, you're a digital forensics analyst at Sytech. Tell us a bit about your role and what it involves. My role at Sytech predominantly involves the extraction and analysis of embedded devices, such as mobile phones, tablets, satellite navigation systems,