Friends, As many of you (over 20,000) have enjoyed the articles posted on this blog page in 2015, we are humbly asking for your support in nominating the Pro Digital Forensic Consulting blog as DIGITAL FORENSIC BLOG OF THE YEAR…
My first jobs as a teenager were in customer service. The brief first foray into the world of customer service was at an amusement park, which ironically, was anything but amusing. After 3 months there, I transitioned to a retail environment where…
Let’s be honest, everyone has biases about many things in life. Whether you have a bias against people’s behavior during a full moon or a bias for or against the police in an investigation, biases come in all shapes, sizes…
The term “expert witness” may get tossed around a little more than it should. Since leaving law enforcement, I can attest to the fact that I’ve seen so-called “experts” of all shapes and sizes. Some are very professional and knowledgeable and some…
Being a digital forensic services provider in the private sector, we service a wide array of client’s needs. It is fairly common for our clients to be involved in litigation and investigations ranging from divorce to employment disputes and other…
Regular readers of this blog know that my professional experience and expertise started in the investigative realm. Ever since I first got interested in law enforcement, I wanted to be an investigator and I’ve been fortunate enough to not only see…
When I was a full-time police detective, I was fortunate enough to attend several very good, very long digital forensic training courses (see letters at end of name). Unfortunately, what this also did was widen the gap between what I knew…
For better or for worse, social media has become a driving force in many aspects of our lives. It helps individuals stay in touch with friends, relatives, former classmates and other acquaintances. It also helps business drive users to websites, advertise and…
Having worked in law enforcement at the level of investigator and forensic examiner and subsequently transitioning to a trainer/private practitioner role, I’m starting to gather the benefit of something many law enforcement (LE) agents may well overlook – diversity of…
As with most private-sector digital forensic practitioners in the modern market, a great majority of our cases involve mobile device forensics. These cases range from employment disputes to divorce. invariably, whenever we get an intake consult for one of these cases, we…
