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A podcast dedicated to Exterro's Forensics product, FTK. We'll spend time interviewing digital forensics experts, current clients, and other forensics professionals to give our audience an in-depth overview of our platform's total capabilities.
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Manny Kressel, CEO and founder of Bitmindz Forensic Solutions, shares his journey from law enforcement to building custom forensic workstations. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the specific needs of forensic examiners and customizing the hardware accordingly. During the episode he provides tips and tricks for getting the most machine for the best price. We address the challenges of working with IT departments for requisition of powerful forensic workstations. The conversati...
Rob Fried, Senior Vice President of Forensics at Sandline Global, shares his journey into forensics and the importance of active listening in investigations. He emphasizes the need for documentation and chain of custody in digital forensics, as well as the evolution of technology and its impact on investigations. Rob also discusses the second edition of his book, 'Forensic Data Collections 2.0,' which covers the soft skills required in the field. The conversation covers topics such as bu...
Justin and Farand discuss various topics related to digital forensics and the upcoming IACIS conference. They cover the increase in specialized classes and the addition of an advanced mobile class at the conference. They also talk about the importance of human judgment in forensic work and the limitations of AI in the field. The conversation touches on the impact of encryption and cloud forensics, as well as the privacy concerns and legal ramifications associated with these technologies. This...
Bertram Lyons, CEO of MedEx Forensics, discusses the challenges and impact of AI-generated content and the need for authentication and provenance analysis. Lyons explains MedEx Forensics' methodology, which focuses on analyzing the internal structure of digital multimedia files. He also discusses the rise of synthetic media and the need for tools to authenticate and analyze it. The conversation explores the nuances of real, original, and authentic content, and the role of institutions and ini...
Justin sits down with Farand Wasiak of The IACIS Podcast and chats about the hot topics in Forensics. The International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS) holds an annual conference where they train hundreds of new and experienced law enforcement professionals in the best forensic science there is... digital forensics (of course). Farand is one of the many volunteers that make it happen, and he is also the host of The IACIS Podcast. In this crossover episode we talk abo...
In this episode, Justin and Lynne are joined by Keven Hendricks, founder of the Ubivis Project, a website dedicated to combating the ever-growing scourge of “dark web” narcotics poisoning our communities. Teenagers and adults are flocking to the dark web to (easily!) buy illegal drugs--many of them overdosing and dying--and yet law enforcement is not doing enough to investigate. The drug trade is soaring in the shadows, so let's unpack what the dark web really is. Hint: ANYONE can access it e...
Justin and Lynne are joined by Tim Barfield, a career police officer for over 40 years and a passionate educator on law enforcement mental health with the First H.E.L.P. organization. First responders experience unfathomable amounts of trauma, day after day, year after year. We're finally seeing a shift from the old culture of telling officers to "just deal with it," and we've seen progress around making the job physically safer with new tactics, equipment, and policy. But the same cannot be ...
When you're the Director of IT for the Federal Defenders of New York, you have a LOT on your plate when you're managing forensics and e-discovery workflows for some of the country's highest profile cases. Jason Fischer sits down with Justin and Lynne to talk about what it really means to be a Federal Defender, day in and day out, versus what we see on those legal procedural TV shows. From analyzing 60 devices for just one suspect or receiving a half-terabyte Android extraction, Jason is an ex...
Justin catches up with an old friend in the industry, Kevin DeLong, the founder of Cyber Social Hub. Originally wanting to create a community where forensic professionals could simply continue the conversation once conference season was over, Kevin has now built an industry collective to share ideas, research and best practices. With over 2,700 members, Kevin has cultivated an impressive community of IT, cybersecurity, digital forensic, and legal technology professionals who all share a...
Justin and Lynne sit down with David Williams from the Microsoft Public Safety & Justice team to take a deeper look into Microsoft Azure cloud solutions and how we're partnering with them (and winning awards) to dramatically improve productivity for first responders and law enforcement agencies, allowing them to solve cases faster and take criminals off the street. David sheds light on Microsoft's goals and motives for transforming the forensic review space, and how partners like Exterro ...
Forensic investigations involving CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) and the process of reviewing and categorizing these kinds of explicit images can be emotionally draining. Semantics 21 realized they could help! They used AI technology to build a better tool for CSAM investigators to protect their mental health while reviewing and categorizing evidence. Justin sits down with Tom Oldroyd at Semantics 21 to uncover the remarkable way they've reshaped the CSAM workflow, and how they work with ...
With over 700K open cybersecurity jobs in the US alone, how do we train the next generation of forensics professionals to take the reins? Recorded live at the HTCIA conference in Atlantic City, NJ, Justin Tolman sits down with some special guests who are just beginning or advancing their DFIR journeys. See the world of digital forensics through the eyes of four cybersecurity students and their professor, Glenn Goe, at Stark State College in Canton, Ohio. Interested in connecting with Glenn ab...
In this week's episode, Justin sits down with Dan Sumpter of Exterro, Chris DeLeon of Texas Central Bank, and Amanda Fields of Blue Cross Blue Shield, to talk about making the transition to digital forensics careers after working in law enforcement. With over 50 years of law enforcement experience combined, this group discusses the strengths from their public sector careers that gave them an advantage when transitioning into private DFIR investigations. They dive into team dynamics, data acqu...
If you follow Justin’s forensic content on YouTube, then you know how he insists on having a broader understanding of digital forensics than just how a forensic tool works. This week’s guest is a big supporter of that mentality! Justin and Lynne talk with Brett Shavers of DFIR Training about the advantages of learning digital forensics at a deeper level, and his art of "Placing the Suspect Behind the Keyboard." Hear how Brett has used digital forensics technology to solve murders, investigate...
This week Justin and Lynne talk with John Price of the West Midlands Police in the UK. John has pioneered the first cloud-based digital forensics platform powered by FTK Central in Microsoft Azure. With nearly 7,000 officers able to work cases remotely and upload evidence directly to the cloud, criminal forensic investigation tasks that previously took days to complete are now almost instantaneous. Hear how John has paved the way for law enforcement agencies to collaborate to clear case backl...
In this week’s episode we sit down with Gus Dimitrelos of CyberForensics.com. Gus is a long-time investigator both in the public sector and of course private. We spoke with Gus about putting a person behind the keyboard during an investigation. The technique of “Digital Sandwiching” is very important for building the best narrative of user behavior and user identification.We chat about some of the FTK features that have helped Gus in recent high-profile cases such as enhanced Mac artifact par...
In this episode, Justin and Lynne talk about FTK Enterprise and Off-Network Collection and Preview. Even when your resources are not connected to your company network using the VPN it is still important for compliance with Zero Trust and the CISA Incident Response Playbook to be able to react and mitigate risks to those endpoints. FTK Enterprise has been able to access, collect, and remediate off-network devices for a while, but version 7.6 is adding Off-Network preview, allowing IT professio...
The Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) is an organization of law enforcement officers from all over the United States working to catch online predators and protect our children. We sit down at the Atlanta ICAC conference with Detective and ICAC Affiliate Matthew Wharton of the Sweetwater County Sheriff's Department in Wyoming and discuss his experience with ICAC and how he got started working with ICAC. We close out by talking mental health for investigators and how examiners and departm...
This week we get a look at a network breach from the perspective of a “non-IT” person. Cristie Nickel is an Event Marketing Manager here at Exterro. She is new addition to our team here, but she came from a healthcare provider who experienced a serious breach during the Covid Pandemic. She walks through how the hospital coped with the dangerous consequences of the breach, and how it was “all hands on deck” for months on end before things return to normal. This is a great episode from a differ...
The podcast features Sarah Hargreaves, VP of Exterro Global Training, who is based in the UK. Sarah is joined by Dan Sumpter, a Senior Trainer at Exterro, and resident expert on how to testify in court as a digital forensics examiner.We talk with Sarah about why taking FTK training is absolutely critical for forensic professionals, and the tangible effects that training can have on your investigation. Sarah also talks about how forensic labs can use FTK technology to update and maintain their...
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