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Forging Trust in Digital Forensics as Technology Evolves

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February’s publications continued a trending topic in recent research: establishing reliability in forensic science as a whole, and digital forensics particularly. Even as some works explored the decryption of encrypted data, and the use of “hacked” data from encrypted devices,

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 much

Research Roundup: Problem Solving In Digital Forensics

Digital forensics research last month fell fairly neatly into two categories, each of which sought to solve bigger problems in the field. In the first category is ensuring quality via frameworks such as service levels, better supporting first responders, reporting,

Lessons Learned In Digital Forensics Standardization: United Kingdom

Should digital forensics be standardized? Can it be standardized successfully? These questions have been hotly debated for a number of years, perhaps never more so than in recent years as digital forensics has become increasingly important in both criminal and