In 2023, Magnet Forensics delivered a major breakthrough for internet crimes against children (ICAC) investigations by partnering with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). The partnership gave investigators the unprecedented ability to instantly match suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM) case data against NCMEC’s multiple repositories of suspected CSAM data in real time.
We’re excited to roll out two major enhancements to Magnet Nexus giving you deeper data collection, stronger performance, and more reliable collections across modern macOS environments: physical image collection from Windows endpoints and a fully native ARM-based agent for macOS endpoints.
Magnet Verify is revolutionizing digital media analysis yet again. For years, Verify has given investigators and examiners a powerful way to understand where digital media comes from and whether it’s been altered. Its structural analysis approach already changed the game by shining light into places no other tool could reach, helping investigators confidently separate authentic images, videos, and audio from edited, transmitted, or AI-generated content.
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.
The latest evolution of Magnet Review is here with a powerful new feature to help you and your investigative teams work smarter and faster: Intelligent Search. With Intelligent Search, our new Magnet AI-powered search tool, you can surface more meaningful leads from thousands of media files and chat threads in seconds. Combined with major performance enhancements — including an 84% boost in ingestion speed! — you’re sure to spend less time waiting and more time uncovering the truth.
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.
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.
Authored by Chad Gish. A few years ago, my lab at Nashville Police Department hit the breaking point. Our backlog was growing, and we were waiting weeks for devices to come back, and I caught myself thinking the same thing many investigators do: We’ll just overtime our way out of this. But you can’t outwork exponential data growth. We were effectively babysitting every step of every case, and the pressure to deliver was relentless.
Authored by Chad Gish. A few years ago, my lab at Nashville Police Department hit the breaking point. Our backlog was growing, detectives were waiting months for devices to come back, and I caught myself thinking the same thing many investigators do: We’ll just overtime our way out of this. But you can’t outwork exponential data growth. As the cases piled up, so did the pressure. In homicide or violent-crime work, time isn’t a luxury; it’s the difference between a solved case and a family that never gets answers. When you’re the lead detective, that weight sits squarely on your shoulders.
