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Metro Nashville PD Uses Magnet AUTOMATE To Eliminate Months-Long Device Backlog In Days

28th February 2023

Magnet Forensics, a developer of digital investigation solutions used by more than 4,000 enterprises and public safety agencies in over 100 countries, today announced that the Metro Nashville Police Department is using Magnet AUTOMATE to keep its digital investigations running… Read more

Greater Manchester Police Completes Digital Investigations 9.5 Hours Faster With Magnet AUTOMATE

10th November 2022

Magnet Forensics announced that the Greater Manchester Police, in conjunction with the United Kingdom’s Forensic Capability Network, has successfully accelerated its digital investigations into child sexual exploitation by deploying Magnet AUTOMATE. With Magnet AUTOMATE, a solution that uses automation and… Read more

Magnet AUTOMATE Enterprise and How It Can Streamline Workflow for the Corporate World

21st September 2022

Trey: Hey everyone. Thanks for tuning in today to the Magnet Summit 2022. Today…my name is Trey Amick and with me I have Tim McAnnany from Qualcomm. Thanks for joining in today, Tim, and doing this with us. But we’re… Read more

How Detego Helped One of Europe’s Biggest Tax Authorities Fast-Track Investigations and Empower Field-Based Teams

31st August 202231st August 2022

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The Background Detego’s customer* is one of the largest tax authorities in Europe and employs more than 50,000 staff. The authority’s main responsibilities include the assessment, determination, collection and imposition of tax across its jurisdiction. With instances of tax evasion… Read more

DFIR Digital Transformation

24th August 2022

Stephen Boyce: Welcome to the Magnet Virtual Summit 2022. We missed you in Nashville, but we’re glad that you’re here virtually. Today, I’ll be talking about the digital forensic and incident response digital transformation. Many of you in your agencies… Read more

Towards a Working Definition and Classification for Automation in Digital Forensics

28th June 2022

Gaëtan Michelet: So good morning, everyone. Today I will present the project we are working on with Frank Breitinger and Graham Horsman. This project is “Towards a working definition and classification for automation in the context of digital forensic”. And… Read more

Exterro Enhances DFIR Automation with Major Upgrades to FTK Connect

6th May 2022

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Enhanced FTK Connect adds power and speed to FTK® solutions with new automation, integration and visualization capabilities PORTLAND, Ore., May 4, 2022 — Exterro Inc. – the preferred provider of Legal GRC software specifically designed for in-house legal, privacy, and… Read more

DFRWS-EU 2022: The Future of Digital Forensics Is Now

25th April 2022

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Moving digital forensics forward in terms of methods and frameworks, as well as organizational and cross-cultural collaboration, was an overarching theme of this year’s European Union edition of the Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS). After 40 years, mainstays like file… Read more

Magnet Forensics’ Stephen Boyce on Collaboration, Automation, and Developing DFIR Skills

10th January 2022

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 both… Read more

Short Bitcoin Heist: Topological Data Analysis For Ransomware Investigations

4th January 2022

Hi, I’m Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora, and I’ll be presenting our ransomware detection work on the Bitcoin blockchain by using topological data analysis. This is joint work with professors Gel and Kantarcioglu from the University of Texas at Dallas. I’m an… Read more

Use of Automated Systems for Rapid Decisions

7th December 2021

Hello everybody. My name is Hannes Spichiger and I’m presenting a short paper called The Use of Automated Systems for Rapid Decisions that I wrote together with my colleague, Timothy Bolle. We both are PhD students at the university of… Read more

Detego Delivers Exceptional Airport Security with Unified Digital Investigations

17th October 20226th October 2021

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It’s almost impossible to imagine a world where we were once able to arrive at airports moments before a flight and get through security in a matter of minutes. Unfortunately, it took several catastrophic disasters for airports to discover just… Read more

Automating And Sharing Digital Forensics Knowledge Through Hansken

2nd July 2021

What if you could automate digital forensics processes, centralize them, and then offer them at scale through the internet? Researchers at the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) set out to answer the first question—then took the path through the second and… Read more

Research Roundup: Micro Analysis To Macro Implications In Digital Forensics

26th May 2021

Our brief roundup this month looks at seven recent papers, which look at improving malware detection and acquisition, analyzing instant messaging apps and the Zoom platform, the future of digital forensics tools and practice, and finally, a framework for forensic… Read more

Digital Forensics Standards In Q1 2021

19th May 2021

The items in our roundup this spring build on many of the updates from our January roundup, including new drafts available for public comment and additional work on standardization projects in the United Kingdom and European Union. Additionally, a development… Read more

How To Integrate AD Enterprise And The CyberSponse Platform Using The AccessData API

12th May 202020th September 2019

AccessData is the first forensics company to offer a full-featured API that can integrate across the entire forensics and e-discovery portfolio, dramatically speeding up investigations and reducing the risk and expense of passing data between platforms. AccessData recently teamed up… Read more