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

Investigating User Activity with Windows Artifacts in IEF

Sometimes when conducting forensic examinations, investigators can lose sight of the fact that they’re investigating the actions of a person, not a computer. Almost every event or action on a system is the result of a user either doing something

Finding and Analyzing Windows System Artifacts with IEF

New with the Business and OS artifacts module in Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) v6.4, Magnet Forensics has added a number of valuable Windows operating system artifacts that will help investigators gain insight into details about a system and its users.

Oxygen Forensic Suite 2014 Adds New Acquisition Methods for Android Devices

Oxygen Forensics has updated its flagship mobile evidence discovery solution, Oxygen Forensic Suite 2014, adding physical acquisition support for MTK-based Android devices and introducing dual-joint logical acquisition support for all Android devices. The new release greatly simplifies the acquisition of

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Forum members discuss Chromebook forensics. How is computer forensics affected by the UTC+14 timezone? How can a forensic examiner identify whether Skype messages were sent from a desktop

Magnet Forensics Releases Internet Evidence Finder v6.4

With the release of IEF v6.4, Magnet Forensics adds to its list of Internet and mobile-supported artifacts, and introduces a new Business Applications and OS Artifacts Module to enable the recovery of more evidence with an IEF search. The Business

Anti-paedophile police fight child porn ‘epidemic’

The internet trade in images that show child sex abuse is now “an epidemic”, according to the head of the global initiative to combat the problem. Police officers from around the world serve on the Virtual Global Taskforce. Its chairman,

Webinar: Investigating Child Exploitation Cases with IEF

A recording of last month’s webinar "Investigating Child Exploitation Cases – Getting to Critical Internet Evidence Faster with IEF" presented by Jad Saliba and Jamie McQuaid of Magnet Forensics is now online. View the webinar and read a full transcript

Interview with Martino Jerian, Founder and CEO, Amped Software

Martino, please tell us about your role as the Founder & CEO at Amped Software, and what led you to found the company. Amped Software was derived from my master thesis of Electronic Engineering at the University of Trieste, Italy,

Coming apart at the SIEMs …

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)1 systems are all the rage at the moment – and with good cause. As you are all aware, one item of data2 does not a case make, it is the combination & correlation between

Nina van der Knaap, PhD Student (eLaw), Leiden University

Nina, you’re currently doing a PhD in eLaw and teaching at the Cyber Security Academy (Cyber Forensics & Cybercrime and Law Enforcement). Could you tell us how you became interested in this area? I am a forensic criminologist and I

Martino Jerian, Founder and CEO, Amped Software

Martino, please tell us about your role as the Founder & CEO at Amped Software, and what led you to found the company. Amped Software was derived from my master thesis of Electronic Engineering at the University of Trieste, Italy,

Mac Memory Forensics – WeChat Analysis in a live system

Rapid growth of the usage of OS X has inspired forensic researchers to analyze devices such as the iPad, iPhone and Mac deeply. Therefore, OS X forensics, starting from Jonathan Zdziarski in 2008, became a very hot topic. However, most

X-Ways X-Tension for C4All users (forum topic)

C4All is a program used by law enforcement and others to categorize pictures and videos. This X-Tension is for Users of C4All. The guides that are included describe how to best use the X-Tension with the Strategy hash sets ,