Content Industry: Public Safety

Finding the Best Data Recovery Workflow in DVR Examiner 3

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Data recovery is a key function of DVR Examiner for all our users, despite varying case load and case nature. An efficient workflow, and the ability for users to customize the workflow they follow based on their particular case needs, ensures rapid time to evidence, and is a major focus as we release new versions of DVR Examiner.

Getting Started with Magnet DVR Examiner

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DVR Examiner can save your forensics team valuable time and money in the field and back at the lab. In this webinar, we will go over the basics of how to use DVR Examiner as well as walk through the newest updates to the software to help you use it more efficiently and effectively in … Continued

Data Recovery with DVR Examiner: Accessible, Inaccessible, and VERY Inaccessible

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Data recovery with DVR Examiner works by reverse engineering the many different DVR filesystems to locate and extract video footage. Most DVRs use a proprietary filesystem. Sometimes this is in conjunction with a known filesystem, often Ext 2 or 3, but even in these cases the video data is typically located in a large proprietary partition which won’t be recognized by conventional computer forensic tools. However, if you take a closer look at these “unallocated” spaces, you may find some familiar structures and multitudes of highly compressed video data.

Analysis of Hikvision Date/Time

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Hikvision-based systems store date/time metadata a little differently than other DVR filesystems, and when it comes to adding support for new DVRs into DVR Examiner, or recovering video manually for a laboratory case, understanding date/time information is critical.