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

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,

Review: Mobile Phone Examiner Plus (MPE+) – Part 2

Reviewed by Si Biles, Thinking Security One of the things that I love about being in IT is that it is an ever changing field. I find myself coming across new things daily. This even occasionally applies to my own

Electronic Voiceprints: The Crime Solving Power of Biometric Forensics

By Jared Stern Fingerprinting has been used for years to determine the individuality of a person. But, newer technology allows investigators to capture a person’s voice, a so-called “voiceprint.” Sometimes, a person’s voice is the only clue that police and

International Police Operation Targets Polymorphic Beebone Botnet

On 8 April, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT), joined forces with the Dutch authorities and the FBI, and U.S-based representatives at the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force- International Cyber Crime Coordination Cell

Electronic Voiceprints: The Crime Solving Power of Biometric Forensics

By Jared Stern Fingerprinting has been used for years to determine the individuality of a person. But, newer technology allows investigators to capture a person’s voice, a so-called “voiceprint.” Sometimes, a person’s voice is the only clue that police and

Interview with Martin Harran, Developer, Visual JPEG

Martin, you've been demonstrating Visual JPEG at DFRWS. Could you tell us about the concept behind it, and how you came up with the idea? It’s a tool to make life easier for people examining files. The background of this

Martin Harran, Developer, Visual JPEG

Martin, you've been demonstrating Visual JPEG at DFRWS. Could you tell us about the concept behind it, and how you came up with the idea? It’s a tool to make life easier for people examining files. The background of this

DFRWS Europe 2015 Annual Conference – Recap

This article is a recap of some of the main highlights of the Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS) held in Dublin from the 23rd – 26th of March 2015. Over the next few weeks Forensic Focus will also be bringing

DFRWS Europe 2015 Annual Conference – Recap

This article is a recap of some of the main highlights of the Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS) held in Dublin from the 23rd – 26th of March 2015. Over the next few weeks Forensic Focus will also be bringing

Oxygen Forensic Suite 7.2 Adds WhatsApp Voice Calls Analysis

Oxygen Forensics releases a major update to its flagship mobile forensic solution, Oxygen Forensic® Suite. New version introduces industry-first analysis of WhatsApp voice calls parsing, recovers deleted entries directly in each application section, displays messages in convenient conversion view, imports

Mobile Phone Examiner Plus (MPE+) – Part 2

Reviewed by Si Biles, Thinking Security One of the things that I love about being in IT is that it is an ever changing field. I find myself coming across new things daily. This even occasionally applies to my own

Webinar: Being Your Own Expert Witness

A recording of the recent (ISC)2 webinar “Being Your Own Expert Witness” is now online here. With data breaches and data leakage incidents becoming front page news, cyber investigations are taking on more importance within organizations. This calls for a

Being Your Own Expert Witness

Presenters: Brandon Dunlap, Global CISO at Black & Veatch and Managing Director – Research at Brightfly, Inc.; Herbert Joe, Certified Forensics Consultant, Yonovitz & Joe, LLP; Andrew Neal, TransPerfect Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a

ReclaiMe Pro – data recovery toolkit for experts

ReclaiMe Data Recovery Company was founded in 2009 in Russia, Volgograd. The company’s first product was ReclaiMe File Recovery software, made as simple as possible. Then the company released ReclaiMe Free RAID recovery software to recover RAID configurations. The next