All data is not equal in a forensic examination—and the more data that’s available, the more difficult it is to organize and prioritize. As data volumes grow and users struggle to find the meaning across large swaths of evidence, the need for better digital evidence organization has continued to resonate. Magnet AXIOM’s new Case Dashboard, … Continued
We want to extend our sincere appreciation to those of you who took the time to cast nomination ballots in the 2018 Forensic 4:cast Awards. Thanks to you, we are nominated for THREE categories: Digital Forensic Organization of the Year Phone Forensic Software of the Year Computer Forensic Software of the Year Your nominations show … Continued
Today we announced our partnership with U.S. based nonprofit organization, Child Rescue Coalition (CRC), a partnership that will see Magnet Forensics and CRC come together to help achieve our shared goal of protecting children against child sexual exploitation and abuse. As a former digital forensics examiner, our Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Jad Saliba worked … Continued
This is the first part in a two-part series. You can read Part 2 here. In our previous blog post, “Telling the Story of Digital Evidence,” we outlined how the Connections feature in Magnet AXIOM automatically shows where key digital evidence came from, where it is currently located, who it was shared with and when … Continued
By Jad Saliba, Founder & CTO of Magnet Forensics It’s almost been two years since we released Magnet AXIOM v1.0, and it’s been quite the ride since that release day! AXIOM was created primarily because we were looking to add more functionality to IEF — but IEF was based on a platform that was reaching … Continued
This week, DFIR and infosec professionals converge on Las Vegas this week for the Black Hat and DEFCON conferences, each of which has its own Capture the Flag (CTF) competition. We thought we’d take a fond look back at the success of our own first-ever CTF, held in May in conjunction with our User Summit, … Continued
In digital forensics, demonstrating attribution—using operating system artifacts to prove that the suspect had knowledge of the document or image files found on a device—is one of the key elements of building a case. The ability to tell an evidentiary story is even better. How did a file get here? Where did it go—to whom … Continued
Our previous two blogs covered the reasons why we think file system forensics’ marginal returns are rapidly diminishing, and the changes in consumer electronics that continue to drive the need for a focus on artifacts and the apps they come from in digital forensics. In our final post, we’re discussing how the artifacts-oriented approach allows … Continued
The latest version of Magnet AXIOM is ready for customers to download either at the Customer Portal or when you open AXIOM. Magnet AXIOM 1.2.6 brings improvements to Cloud acquisition — including support for Google Hangouts — as well as an update to our Passware integration that uses a password dictionary list to attempt to … Continued
Our previous blog covered the reasons why we think file system forensics’ marginal returns are rapidly diminishing, and why we think the process needs to be balanced with a more efficient, artifacts-oriented approach that relies on the file system to verify and validate. In this blog, we offer the historical context for how we think … Continued
