Forensic Focus – Articles

Due to the rapidly growing need for securing safe environments around the world, digital surveillance systems have become ubiquitous. A significant number of new surveillance systems are installed each year, and the importance of acquiring actionable data from these systems is growing across the globe.  According to a recent statistic, the amount of surveillance video … Continue reading →

What is Virtual Forensic Computing? Virtual computing transforms investigation of the digital crime scene. Having access to the ‘digital scene of crime’ can offer huge benefits to an investigator. Whether investigating fraud, murder, child abuse or something else, seeing the computer through the eyes of the suspect can be invaluable. Building a virtual machine (VM) … Continue reading →

A proper connection graph is a must if you need to investigate a complex case with numerous individuals using different communication media. In law enforcement, it may be a drug-related case with several dealers and a network of buyers, or a ring of sexual predators. The corporate sector might need graphs to investigate a circle … Continue reading →

by Alexander Leonenko Today we would like to talk about RAID arrays with lost configuration and how to extract evidential data from them. Let’s start with understanding what a RAID is in the first place. RAID. What is it? RAID is a Redundant Array of Independent Drives. The system shows it as a virtual storage … Continue reading →

by Michelle Oh, HancomGMD  With an ever-increasing range of features and dramatically increased storage capacity, digital devices have become essential to our daily life. Their ability to store vast amounts of data means that these devices have proliferated and are now found in every household. They therefore prove to be a source of crucial information that … Continue reading →

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 →