If you’ve ever lost hours of work because a DVR export job crashed or spent your day hunting down failed clips, we know your pain. That’s why we recently released export recovery features in Magnet Witness that allow you to retry interrupted jobs and failed exports with ease.
One truth I’ve been emphasizing a lot lately at conferences and talks is just how important digital forensics has become. When I first started in this field over 20 years ago with the Metro Nashville Police Department, digital forensics was more of a nice-to-have. If we could get to a phone or computer, great—it might help move a case along. But it wasn’t considered essential.
Portable Case is celebrated for its straightforward, intuitive interface. Many digital forensic review tools overwhelm users with excessive tabs, making navigation feel complicated and disjointed.
It can be hard to set aside time from your busy schedule for training and skill development. You know it’s incredibly beneficial to your career and your investigations, but you also want to make sure that you’re getting maximum impact for your time.
Chat and messaging data now sit at the center of many internal investigations, HR matters, and eDiscovery workflows. Whether the source is Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, iMessage, or any other modern communication platform, the volume and density of conversations can quickly overwhelm reviewers if it isn’t presented in a clean, structured way.
Modern digital investigations need to move fast. Analysts are often forced to collect too much, too little, or the wrong data simply because forensic tools don’t give them enough control. Overcollection slows analysis. Under collection increases risk.
The same impulse that kept me running cases late into the evening as a digital forensics examiner is the one that now drives me to help agencies articulate their needs, justify investments in automation, and demonstrate the outcomes that funding can unlock.
The pace of change in mobile technology is relentless, and with each new mobile OS release, digital investigators face fresh challenges in preserving and accessing vital evidence. The recent introduction of reboot timers in mobile operating systems has become an urgent race against time.
The UK government’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill marks one of the most significant updates to the UK’s national cyber legislation in years. It reflects the reality that cyberattacks are now an operational certainty, and organizations, especially those supporting critical services, must be able to detect, investigate, and respond to incidents far more quickly and transparently than before.
Hiberfil.sys is one of those Windows artifacts every examiner should know about. It can contain a near-complete capture of system memory but is also tricky to collect and parse.
