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

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums Forum user EricZimmerman shares some imager speed test results. What are ‘advanced forensics concepts‘ within the digital forensics realm? Forum users discuss digital evidence storage ideas. Forum member

Interview with Carole Phillips, Trustee, BulliesOut

There has been increased coverage of cyber bullying in the media recently. How large a problem is cyber bullying? Is it really growing as fast as the media seem to suggest? When the tragic deaths of young people such as

HEA STEM (Computing): Teaching Computer Forensics Workshop

HEA STEM: Teaching Computer Forensics is the 8th workshop on Teaching Forensics, the last 4 of which have been held at Sunderland. The workshops have been successful at bringing academics together to discuss the particular challenges in teaching computer forensics,

Carole Phillips, Trustee, BulliesOut

Carole, you're currently a trustee for BulliesOut. How did you become involved with the charity? I first heard of BulliesOut through being involved in the charity Children in Wales and contacted the CEO, Linda James, via LinkedIn. We met as

Magnet Forensics Releases IEF v6.2, Featuring the New Dynamic App Finder

Latest version of IEF uniquely addresses the challenge of identifying, recovering and analyzing mobile chat data. Magnet Forensics, the global leader in the development of digital forensic software for the recovery and analysis of Internet evidence from computers, smartphones and

Streamlining Digital Forensics through Google Glass Eyes

The world of digital forensics involves the use of a very diverse array of tools, some highly specialized and technical and others pretty simple, as we all know, and these tools are constantly evolving as the digital landscape itself changes

Interview with John Huperetes, Senior Forensics Instructor

John Huperetes is a sub-contractor to the US Department of Defense and any views herein do not represent those of his contractor or of the DoD. John, please tell us about your current role. I am contracted to be “senior

John Huperetes, Senior Forensics Instructor

John Huperetes is a sub-contractor to the US Department of Defense and any views herein do not represent those of his contractor or of the DoD. John, please tell us about your current role. I am contracted to be “senior

Arsenal Image Mounter now available on GitHub

Arsenal Image Mounter is now available on GitHub under a dual license. Arsenal Imager Mounter is the image mounter/physical disk driver used by Registry Recon to mount forensic images as physical disks and includes a complete virtual SCSI adapter which

Interview with Benjamin Fung, Associate Professor, McGill University

Your research focuses on designing intelligent systems for the purpose of crime investigation. How did you become interested in these topics? After joining the Computer Security team at Concordia in 2007, I had a lot of opportunities to interact with

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

How much does having a disability affect working in forensics? Chime in on the forum. Are Facebook private messages retrievable? Forum members discuss the best way to clean flash drives. To triage or not to triage? That is the question.

Cyber Security Challenge in Scotland

Towards the end of August, I was part of the team who were offered to help out and participate at an exciting event held at Glasgow Caledonian University. The event ran over five days with each day varied in content

New IEF/EnCase Processor Module Now Available

How Does Integration Help You as an Investigator? Let’s imagine you have been assigned to investigate a case involving an employee who is suspected of posting threatening comments on a co-worker’s Facebook account (this could either be an internal employee

Interview with Jacopo (forum member ‘jaclaz’)

You’re an active member of the Forensic Focus forums. How did you become interested in digital forensics? My interests are oriented towards OS booting, filesystems and data recovery. These fields are of course closely linked to digital forensics. I was

Jacopo (forum member ‘jaclaz’)

Jacopo, you’re currently a freelance technical consultant. Could you tell us a bit more about what the job entails, and how you got into it? It is difficult to describe the kind of activities I am involved with as there

From iPhone to Access Point – Analyzing the Evidence

A wireless Access Point (AP) is a device that allows wireless devices to connect to internet using Wi-Fi. With the remarkable increase in number of wireless devices the number of APs has also increased drastically to serve the Wi-Fi needs