By Jad Saliba, Founder & CTO of Magnet Forensics It’s been about five months since I did some performance profiling between Magnet IEF and Magnet AXIOM and published a blog documenting the results. It was awesome to see the improvements that AXIOM has enabled, especially when it comes to examination/review time (keyword searches, filters, etc). … Continued
Few people can work in technology without eventually learning that keyboard shortcuts can make your work just that little bit more efficient. The seconds you can save in using your keyboard—rather than your mouse to navigate to the correct menu and menu item—do add up, after all. The more features AXIOM adds, the more important … Continued
Last week we introduced a new three-part series that focuses on corporate investigations. This week, we’re very pleased to offer the first of our Industry Insights Briefs for download: Successful Insider Threat Investigations. What is an “insider threat”? Relative to external threat actors, insiders don’t attack with, for instance, malware delivery via spear phishing text … Continued
by Chris Vance, MCFE, Magnet Forensics Manager, Training Curriculum Development With iOS 11, Apple decided to focus heavily on the end user’s security and privacy by releasing incremental updates that added several additional features. The initial release of iOS included: New security features, such as requiring the passcode to create a trust-pair relationship (changes from … Continued
Over the past two years, Apple has steadily enhanced its iOS offerings designed for both security and user convenience. Each sub-version of both iOS 10 and 11 added or changed small features that have drastically changed the forensic workflow, making your job in some cases harder—and in other cases easier. We’re offering a new best … Continued
Most of Troy Schnack’s forensic examinations for cases taken by the U.S. Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Missouri are about mitigation rather than whether the client is guilty—how much evidence of a crime exists, which can affect sentencing guidelines. In one recent case, however, the evidence that appeared to tell one story … Continued
As we exhibit this week at the National ICAC Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, we’re extremely honored to unveil a new technology integration. Magnet AXIOM will soon be able to ingest data from Child Rescue Coalition (CRC)’s Child Protection System (CPS), a comprehensive system that compiles and curates millions of online child predator records. The technology … Continued
With AXIOM, we try to take an approach that not only gets the job done for expert forensic examiners, but also introduces skills and concepts to new or intermediate level examiners at a level that they can easily absorb. Whether this is integrating the command-line memory analysis tool Volatility into our graphical user interface, or … Continued
As Magnet Forensics has grown, we’ve had the distinction of our tools being named Forensic 4:cast Computer Forensic Tool of the Year for each of the last five years. To us, this is an indicator that our strategy of paying careful attention to your forensic examination needs both now and into the future is hitting … Continued
Since introducing Magnet AXIOM, we’ve continued to hear from our customers that it continues the standard for excellence that IEF started: not just to find more evidence, but also to tackle some of digital forensics’ most enduring challenges. We wanted to take some time to call out five ways we strive to deliver phone forensics … Continued
