Following up on last month’s article about “Three FAQs About Digital Forensics as a Service”, we thought it useful to spend some time debunking some myths about digital forensics from both a general practitioner and service provider perspective. Every industry…
There are many tentacles to the practice of digital forensics. As explored in a previous article, there can be two main tracks to the practice of digital forensics: Incident Response & Litigation Support. Along the same vein, there are practitioners…
Digital forensics as a practice and as a service has been evolving for since its inception. Among the evolutionary explosions we’ve seen in the field are the hardware, the size of data repositories, the data storage technology and the tools…
As a digital forensic practitioner who logs approximately 70% of cases in the mobile device forensics arena, it has become the norm for us to receive discovery in any number of forms from opposing counsel, law enforcement agencies, etc. Being…
A recent discussion on an international podcast spawned several offspring topics about what bona-fide occupational qualifications (previously known as BFOQs) are key to success in the field of digital forensics. This question has several answers, some of which are not…
One of the things I enjoy most about the field of digital forensics is that it’s a community of people who all generally have one set of goals in mind: Find the truth, get to the facts, uncover the evidence…
For the past several years, there have been multiple business articles stating how the private sector digital forensics industry will be growing exponentially in the near future. This is partially due to increased data breaches, increased civil litigation filings where…
For reasons I’m not sure I can put a firm grasp on, there still seems to be a debate over the value of cellular call detail records and their strength in being able to prove or disprove location in litigation. …
Pro Digital Forensic Consulting is about to embark on it’s 7th year in full-time operation. It’s hard to believe that when I made the decision to transition from law enforcement to the private sector, my little company would have come…
Working a variety of civil, corporate and criminal litigation cases, we see a myriad of different approaches to digital forensics in a litigation support model. One of the common cost-benefit questions that comes up is, why would a party involved…
