June 1, 2026 Training Philosophy: Law Enforcement vs. Private Sector "Live like a flock feeding together with equal right in one common pasture. " -Zeno of Citium This month I’m going to re-visit an old topic, but it’s not so old that it’s irrelevant.   In fact, it comes up multiple times per year.   Recently, in an exchange with another user on the DFIR Discord server, a training opportunity was posted.   Some of it was law enforcement (LE)-restricted, some of it was not.   So I posed the question:   Why is (some) of this training LE-only? The answer I got back was less than substantive, but it begs the larger question yet again:   What is covered in law enforcement restricted training that is so specialized, secretive or otherwise sensitive that it needs to exclude everyone else? The Purpose of Training   In order to thoroughly dive into this topic, we must first take a step back and ask, what is the purpose of training, particularly in the fi...