Comparing Magnet AXIOM Performance Speeds Through the Ages

How large was the last case you worked and how much data were you dealing with? I get a bit sentimental thinking back to some of the earlier days of my digital forensics casework. The good old days when a normal case consisted of a single desktop computer with maybe a few gigabytes of storage capacity—on the high end.

The Top 15 Updates to Magnet AXIOM in 2022

2022 was a big year for Magnet AXIOM. From improvements to Magnet.AI to the much adored (and long awaited) Dark Mode, Magnet AXIOM has transformed quite a bit over the past 12 months. While there are too many new features to fit in one post, we’ve rounded up a few of our favorite improvements to AXIOM in 2022.

Magnet AXIOM 6.7: Facilitating Access to More Data Sources

Magnet AXIOM 6.7 is now available! In this release, we’re introducing the automatic loading of iOS keychains to help ensure additional data sources are brought to the surface in your iOS extractions. This release also includes support for known and non-relevant hash sets in Hash Sets Manager Beta to help streamline the volume of data that needs to be reviewed.

SRUM: Forensic Analysis of Windows System Resource Utilization Monitor

SRUM, or System Resource Utilization Monitor, is a feature of modern Windows systems (Win8+), intended to track the application usage, network utilization and system energy state. SRUM, as with most operating system features, wasn’t designed for the forensicator, but that doesn’t mean we can’t use it to support our investigations.