In today’s ever-changing and increasing technological world, digital forensics has become an important step in civil and criminal investigations. This typically involves collecting, extracting, and examining data evidence from computer hard drives, mobile devices (smart phones, tablets, GPS units, etc.),…
Businesses large and small often have the unfortunate occasion where they must deal with a difficult client. In the world of digital forensics, this is no exception. It is essentially how you deal with them that matters. Truth be told,…
Several times a year, there seem to be current events or topics that strike a chord both inside and beyond the digital forensic community. We’ve discussed these in previous articles with regard to the Carpenter v. US decision and Apple’s…
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…
