May 1, 2025 Due Diligence In The Search For & Practice of Digital Forensics " If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed. " -Marcus Aurelius Meditations There’s been a lot of chatter lately about the qualifications, credentials, experience, education and credibility of digital forensic practitioners. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I suggest searching on LinkedIn or other related platforms. Notably, a longtime practitioner in the Midwest has recently been placed under investigation by the FBI for essentially perjuring himself with regard to many of these listed characteristics, a definite bellwether for bad tidings and a position I don’t think anyone reading this post would want to be in. But the developments with regard to this practitioner, among others, br...
The Business of Digital Forensics & Incident Response: A Brief Guide for Law Enforcement & Private Sector Practitioners
April 1, 2025 The Business of Digital Forensics & Incident Response: A Brief Guide For Law Enforcement & Private Sector Practitioners " It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. " -Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations I read a lot of your posts. Yes, yours. Virtually all of you in DF/IR, in the practice both in and outside of law enforcement. A bunch of you in professional litigation support and incident response services. Those of you who run, operate and work with digital forensic teams across the US and across the World. I read the posts about the psychological toll that DF/IR work can take on a person. I read the posts about the new artifacts that are discovered in iOS. I read the deep-dives into location data and SEGB files. I read the success stories about those who conduct child exploitation investigations and their succ...