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Category: Best Practices
The data-driven approach: Drafting cloud search warrants around the data providers actually keep
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Learn how to build targeted cloud search warrants based on the data providers actually store, improving particularity and supporting digital investigations.
Forensic Early Case Assessment: is eDiscovery collecting the right data?
Forensic Early Case Assessment helps legal teams identify, validate, and scope the right evidence before review begins, reducing risk and improving eDiscovery efficiency.
Vehicle forensics: a practical guide
Understand how to identify, preserve, extract, analyze, and report digital evidence for modern vehicle forensic investigations. By Steve Gemperle Key takeaways Vehicle forensics is where traditional investigation meets the rolling computer sitting in the driveway, impound lot, or crash scene. Today’s automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, commercial fleets, and connected mobile devices generate a remarkable amount of digital … Continued
Mobile devices and insider threat investigations: Why access keeps getting harder
Mobile devices are playing an increasingly important role in insider threat investigations. As mobile access becomes more challenging, DFIR teams need effective ways to collect relevant evidence while protecting employee privacy.
Digital forensics and eDiscovery: Lessons from a prosecutor and an FBI Special Agent
Modern eDiscovery starts with the right data. Digital forensics helps teams collect and assess relevant evidence from mobile, cloud, and endpoint sources while maintaining integrity, reducing over-collection, and strengthening case strategies.
The case against the go-bag
Remote digital investigations are transforming how teams collect and analyze evidence, replacing slow on-site methods with faster, more precise workflows.
That One Artifact: Mapping the “Where”, proving the “Why”
Communication and location data can turn fragmented evidence into a clear, defensible narrative. In this case, geolocation artifacts placed the suspect at the scene, while text messages revealed intent and planning, together answering the critical questions of what happened and where.
What is SOCMINT? Social media intelligence in investigations
Social media intelligence (SOCMINT) involves collecting and analyzing information from social platforms to support investigations. As more daily activity happens online, it has become a key source of insights and context for investigators.
From alert to root cause: Strengthening federal cyber investigations
Cyber incident investigations uncover hidden threats, reveal root causes, and strengthen incident response to prevent repeat attacks.