Digital Forensics Tools: The Ultimate Guide (2022)
Digital forensics tools have improved a lot in the past several years. With these advances, the digital forensics community now has many tool options for each phase of an investigation.
Author: Phil Froklage
Standardizing Your Collections With Targeted Location Profiles in AXIOM Cyber
Across the board, businesses strive to establish repeatable processes so that they can replicate past successes and avoid repetitive tasks that eat up valuable time and effort. With the volume of incidents and time constraints on DFIR teams, identifying these opportunities and efficiencies is essential to managing an ever-growing caseload.
AXIOM Cyber 6.3: Building and Refining Incident Response Capabilities
In Magnet AXIOM 6.3, we’ve continued to expand the incident response capabilities of AXIOM Cyber—further developing recently introduced features and adding new ones along the way. This release also introduces a new processing option that can expedite your investigations and help you get to your evidence faster.
Magnet AXIOM 6.3: Take Control of Evidence Processing
Magnet AXIOM 6.3 is now available, offering you more control over evidence processing, so you can apply the appropriate collection method for the case at hand.
iOS “Find My” Artifacts Support in Magnet AXIOM and AXIOM Cyber
When the Find My app (creating Find My artifacts) was originally released by Apple in 2019, it was limited to locating user devices, but the app has since expanded to find more than just users’ devices. AirTag data, for example, is also included in the Find My app since they were released in 2021.
Digital Evidence Processing: Parsing-Only Processing and Post-Process Carving
Processing evidence sources that contain terabytes of data and hundreds of thousands of artifacts is now a common and sometimes time-consuming process. Magnet AXIOM and Magnet AXIOM Cyber offer you more control over evidence processing by offering the option to process evidence with parsing-only and post-process carving—allowing you to apply the appropriate collection method for the investigation at hand.
Magnet REVIEW 4.0: Helping You Bring Investigators and Their Evidence Together
We’re very excited to share some of the great new features in Magnet REVIEW 4.0—helping digital forensic examiners bring their investigators and the evidence they need together by enabling secure agency-wide collaboration anytime and from anywhere! With the ever-increasing volumes and complexity of data involved in the typical digital investigation today, delivering a truly modernized … Continued
How To Become A Mobile Forensics Investigator
Today’s criminal investigations often rely on digital evidence residing on mobile devices. During investigations, it’s the mobile forensics investigator’s responsibility to extract and collect that digital evidence. There’s no one “right path” to becoming a mobile forensics investigator.
Announcing the Winners of the 2022 Magnet Forensics CTF
The June 2022 Magnet Forensics CTF was another exciting competition, and we’re happy to announce the winners!
How to Conquer Memory Analysis for Incident Response, Threat Hunting and Compromise Assessment
When analyzing malware and exploits (or troubleshooting issues), you’ll find it in memory—even if it can’t be found on disk. Memory will give you a look at the exact state of a device at a specific time; this is why memory analysis, or memory forensics, is important to DFIR (Digital Forensics and Incident Response).