Walk A Mile In Their Shoes: The Hidden World Of The Digital Forensic Investigator

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What happens when disturbing material in a CSAM investigation has to be read, not viewed? Paul Gullon-Scott examines the psychological impact of messages, descriptions and AI prompts on digital forensic investigators....

How Semantics 21 Are Using Global Intelligence To Pre-Categorise Up To 70% Of Investigations

How Semantics 21 Are Using Global Intelligence To Pre-Categorise Up To 70% Of Investigations

No case should remain an island. S21 VisionX connects investigators to more than 3.7 billion contributed records, helping surface cross-case intelligence, reduce repeat review and bring critical connections forward faster....read more

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 26 2026

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 26 2026

Read the latest DFIR news - OpenAI forensic artifacts, Apple Screen Time evidence, RAM-based location analysis, AI-assisted investigations, forensic imaging bottlenecks, and more....read more

10 Best Practices For AI-Assisted Investigations: A Guide For Legal And Compliance Teams

10 Best Practices For AI-Assisted Investigations: A Guide For Legal And Compliance Teams

Cellebrite shares 10 best practices for faster, safer, and more defensible AI-assisted investigations, with a focus on governance, traceability, and human oversight....read more

Kickstarting Your Digital Forensics Cybersecurity Career

Si Biles: Welcome, friends and enemies, to the Forensic Focus podcast. We have joining us today Sophie Powell. I spoke with Sophie recently along with Rob Black and Sarah Morris about Cyber 9/12, but Sophie is coming back to join

Digital Forensics Round-Up, March 27 2024

A round-up of this weekโ€™s digital forensics news and views:ย  FAIRness in digital forensics datasetsโ€™ metadata โ€“ and how to improve it The availability of research data (datasets) and compliance with FAIR principlesโ€”Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusabilityโ€”is critical to progressing

Digital Forensics Round-Up, March 21 2024

A round-up of this weekโ€™s digital forensics news and views:ย  Artificial Intelligence in Digital Forensics: a force for good or bad? Over the past year, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has dominated headlines as the technology rapidly evolves. It’s undeniable that AI

Oxygen Forensicยฎย Detective v.16.2 Is Available

Oxygen Forensicยฎย Detective v.16.2 is available! It includes the following key features: Enhanced support for UNISOC-based devices. Now you can extract data from screen-locked Samsung devices based on the Unisoc SC9863A chipset and running Android OS 10-13. Weโ€™ve also significantly

Cellebrite Revolutionizes Data Collection With Ground-Breaking SaaS Solution

New SaaS delivery transforms access, collection and analysis of data from a wide variety of remote devices across the enterprise with unparalleled efficiency and consent-based security. Cellebrite DI Ltd. (Nasdaq: CLBT) today unveils Cellebrite Endpoint Inspector SaaS. This enhanced delivery

Forensic Focus Digest, March 15 2024

Read our digest of the latest content on the Forensic Focus website, including news, reviews, podcasts, articles, how-to videos and more.

Magnet Forensics Shares 2024 State Of Enterprise DFIR Report

Itโ€™s here! The Magnet Forensics 2024 State of Enterprise DFIR report is now available. Based on a survey of almost 400 DFIR professionals, weโ€™ve analyzed the data and captured the key challenges and trends DFIR professionals in corporate and service

Digital Forensics Round-Up, March 13 2024

A round-up of this weekโ€™s digital forensics news and views: Advanced forensic method to authenticate audio files from Tizen-based Samsung Galaxy Watches In this study, we propose a forensic-forgery detecting approach for audio files, an extension of previous research on

DFIR And Mental Health – Are We Doing Enough To Protect Investigators?

Forensic Focus has reported before on the impact of cyber investigations on the mental health of digital  forensic experts, particularly those who spend time analysing crimes involving child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Psychologists have known for many years that police

Cado Security Releases H2 2023 Cloud Threat Findings Report

Cado Security Labs, Cadoโ€™s internal threat research function, today released itsย H2 2023 Cloud Threat Findings Reportย to help security teams secure against cloud-focused threat actors. Cado Security believe that safeguarding both large enterprises and small businesses alike requires a