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

Forensics and Bitcoin

This article does not attempt to provide a beginners guide to Bitcoin, nor an in-depth thesis on Bitcoin forensics. Rather, it will be an overview of the potential opportunities available to digital forensics and traditional investigators to obtain evidence in

Estonia President wants China and Russia to help fight cyber-crime

Speaking on the ‘Fighting Shadows’ panel at the Davos convention in Switzerland on Saturday,Toomas Hendrik Ilves joined senior figures from Kaspersky, Microsoft and the United Nations in calling for improved cyber-crime policing, laws and collaboration – whilst also calling into

Dealing With Records Found in SQLite Rollback Journals

Sanderson Forensics was recently contacted by a customer at a police force with a question relating to deleted SQLite records that were found in a rollback journal. The requirement was to create a report(s) showing both the live records in

Free Webcasts Available to Become Certified as a Digital Forensics Expert

(ISC)2® offers the Certified Cyber Forensics Professional (CCFP), the only global cyber forensics credential that provides a comprehensive validation of a candidate’s knowledge and skills as a digital forensics expert. Free CCFP Webcasts are now available that provide insight into

Magnet Forensics presents: IEF User Summit @ Techno Security

Registration Opening Soon! Join us for Magnet Forensics’ first-ever IEF User Summit at the 2015 Techno Security & Forensics Investigations Conference. Internet Evidence Finder users, and digital forensics professionals considering adding IEF to their toolkit, will learn how to use

Webinar (recording): Investigating Sexual Crimes in the Tinder Age

A recording of last month’s webinar “Investigating Sexual Crimes in the Tinder Age” is now available online here. Description: The usage of location-based mobile dating applications like Tinder and Grindr has exploded over the last year. This new class of

Introducing HddSurgery – Tools for Data Recovery Specialists

HddSurgery is an innovative young technology company devoted to building professional hard disk data recovery tools. The company was founded in 2009 in Belgrade, Serbia by experienced data recovery experts from Helpdisc Data recovery company. HddSurgery cover all steps in

Investigating Sexual Crimes in the Tinder Age

Presenters: Jad Saliba and Jamie McQuaid, Magnet Forensics Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here. Transcript Michael Petrelli: Good morning, everyone, and good afternoon, depending on where you’re located. We’d

Top 6 Reasons to Use EnCase and IEF Together

As a forensic examiner, you rely on a variety of tools to conduct your investigations. The types and needs of every case vary, often making it necessary to use more than one tool to find what you’re looking for. Depending

Job Vacancy: Experienced Mobile Phone Forensic Analyst – Tamworth, UK

Disklabs are looking to expand their Mobile Phone Forensics Team with the addition of an experienced Mobile Phone Forensics Analyst based in Tamworth, Staffordshire, UK. The successful candidate will benefit from a package that includes a VERY Competitive Salary, Private

Using SQL as a date/time conversion tool

A few weeks ago I spent a little time looking at Triggers and to get to know them better I wanted to make use of them and so I knocked up a small application where if an integer is pasted

Forensics and Bitcoin

This article does not attempt to provide a beginners guide to Bitcoin, nor an in-depth thesis on Bitcoin forensics. Rather, it will be an overview of the potential opportunities available to digital forensics and traditional investigators to obtain evidence in

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss triage strategies used by law enforcement. What are the specific challenges relating to cloud forensics? Chime in on the forum. Forum members explain how to