Challenges conquered: Practical advice for approaching complex technical investigations

Digital forensic consultants are constantly faced with unfamiliar hardware, technologies, data structures, and problems. While this makes our work exciting, it also makes it challenging. How do you approach solving a problem you haven’t faced before? How do you navigate roadblocks that seem insurmountable? How do you know when a promising lead becomes a rabbit hole that you need to stop following?

This session aims to provide practical advice for how to approach complex technical investigations, where roadblocks and rabbit holes are expected, and creative problem solving is a necessity. The presenters will include case examples showcasing how these approaches have resulted in new artifacts being found and leveraged, and custom solutions being built.