Christa Miller: As digital technology becomes more embedded into humans’ everyday lives, enhancing our efficiency at work, our social lives, even our health and movements, it likewise facilitates criminal activity. Growing in volume and complexity, technology thus ends up … Read more
Podcast
Recruiter Pete Strouse on Making New DFIR Career Moves in 2022
Christa: At the start of a new year, many digital forensics professionals might be thinking about making some changes, to find a more diverse and inclusive environment, to develop and enhance your professional skills and/or to achieve a work-life … Read more
Eoghan Casey on the CASE Ontology for Digital Forensics Practice & Process
Christa: Forensic Focus’ coverage of standardization and digital forensics continues this week by exploring CASE: the Cyber investigation Analysis Standard Expression. An extension of the Unified Cyber Ontology, which defines classes of cyber objects in relation to one … Read more
Jesse Lindmar on Digital Forensics Lab Quality Assurance and Accreditation
Christa: As technology’s advancements continue to outpace practitioner’s ability to keep up, standardizing digital forensics processes, practices and tools has never not been a hot topic in the community. The response ranges from the United Kingdom structured efforts to … Read more
OpenText’s Chuck Dodson on Digital Evidence Management and Information Sharing
Christa Miller: “Digital evidence is piling up quickly for law enforcement across the globe. In today’s challenging world of evidence management, investigators and detectives often have to access multiple systems to collect evidence and search for clues. That means … Read more
Deputy Chief Constable Paul Gibson on Coordinating Countrywide Digital Forensics Standardization
Christa Miller: Effectively standardizing digital forensics practices and procedures across an entire country requires collective investment and collaboration as lab personnel support and learn from one another. Coordinating this effort in the United Kingdom is the Forensic Capability Network … Read more
SafeToNet’s Thomas Farrell on the Spectrum of Online Child Protection
Christa Miller: Child sexual abuse and exploitation is one of the great scourges of our time, often pitted against consumer privacy as investigators seek technological means to end it. This week on the Forensic Focus Podcast, we’re talking with … Read more
MSAB’s Joel Bollö on the Sweeping Challenges & Opportunities in the Digital Forensics Market
Christa: An industry that changes as rapidly as digital forensics does demands a careful balance between informed business experience and the technical knowledge needed to pivot when businesses encounter disruptions. With us this week on the Forensic Focus Podcast … Read more
Todd Shipley on the Dark Net, and the Importance of Relationship-Building for Investigations
Christa: Digital forensics is all about tracing the electronic artifacts that can show a suspect behind a keyboard. However, in the past decade or so, the dark web has complicated this process by anonymizing buyers and sellers, making them harder … Read more
Oxygen Forensics’ Lee Reiber on Keeping Pace in Digital Forensics
Christa: Increasingly mobile forensics isn’t just about devices. As the field diversifies to include cloud storage encryption and the internet of things, digital forensics evolution is only as good as the tools that can keep up. Today on the Forensic … Read more
Alexis Brignoni on Teaching and Learning Python: Why It’s Important and What’s Involved
Christa: In digital forensics, knowing how to write code allows you to create your own forensic tools, test other people’s tools and contribute to the community overall. But among all the learning choices from books to training courses, sometimes you … Read more
Binalyze’s Emre Tinaztepe and Tom Blumenthal on Enterprise Forensic Readiness
Christa: What is forensic readiness, and what does it mean for enterprise forensics? How can incident responders find the right balance between speed and effectiveness as well as what’s required at each stage of an incident response? To help us … Read more
Logicube’s Todd Bellows on Challenges and Opportunities for Forensic Imaging
Christa Miller: At a time when digital forensics tools and techniques seem dominated by the challenges of storage media like mobile devices, cloud storage, and the internet of things, hard drive forensics might not appear to be as captivating. Yet … Read more
Nuix’s Aidan Jewell On Mac Forensics And Cross-Border Case Collaborations
Christa Miller: Solution consulting for a digital forensics vendor demands a deep knowledge, not just of digital forensics practice, but also of the people who are doing the practice. This month’s special vendor edition of the Forensic Focus podcast brings … Read more
MSAB’s Henrik Tjernberg On Ethics In Digital Forensics And Consumer Privacy
Christa: In an era of profound social change, few industries find themselves at the intersection between law, technology, and social justice the way digital forensics does. This month on the Forensic Focus podcast, our vendor edition welcomes Henrik Tjernberg chairman … Read more
Patrick Siewert On Push-Button Forensics And Communicating Results To Non-Experts
Christa: The digital forensics community thrives when practitioners take the time to share their expertise. Today on the Forensic Focus podcast, we’re welcoming one of our co-contributors of original content. I’m your host, Christa Miller, and with us today is … Read more