Forensic Focus – Articles

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus  Whether you’re a college or university student trying to plot out your career, an experienced worker figuring out next steps, or a mentor seeking to help either one of them, you may be seeking to answer the question: what can I do in digital forensics? The digital forensics profession has … Continue reading →

Remote acquisition of digital devices is a useful option for modern-day organizations, both commercial and government. The main reasons for this are as follows:  As entities grow, their IT environments tend to become more complex, distributed, and dispersed.  Cost-efficiency may not allow organizations to hire trained IT security employees for all the locations.  Ongoing business … Continue reading →

by Larry Lieb Organizations historically have struggled with addressing terminated employees’ important evidence sources such as company-issued laptops, oftentimes materially affecting the organization’s ability to deal effectively with disputes that arise after an employee leaves the company. This article will provide a documented, transparent, and repeatable process with actual tools to identify and correctly preserve … Continue reading →

Thanks to its ability to perform 18 simultaneous imaging sessions, TaskForce is the most capable evidence acquisition in the forensics market. Atola’s team of engineers have equipped the device with a server-grade motherboard and CPU, thus allowing TaskForce to multitask at the unprecedented speed of 18 TB/h or even more.  TaskForce has a user-friendly, task-oriented … Continue reading →

by Stuart Wilson This report focuses on the use of virtual reality as a potential steganography carrier file to avoid detection of forensic analysis applications commonly used within law enforcement. The goal is to show how a virtual reality game/environment can be made with little training, what file types can be stored within it and … Continue reading →

by Joakim Kävrestad Determining with whom and in what way a computer has communicated can be important and interesting in several types of examinations. Communications can be an important part of analyzing if and how a computer has been remote controlled or with whom the computer has shared information. It can also be a good … Continue reading →

From the 30th of September to the 2nd of October 2019, Forensic Focus will be attending the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference in San Antonio, TX, USA. If there are any topics you’d particularly like us to cover, or any speakers you think we should interview, please let us know in the comments. Below … Continue reading →