Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums.

How would you trace the origin of a file on a USB drive? Add your thoughts in the forum.

Forum members discuss forensic preservation of Dropbox data.

Should you invest in vendor-specific or vendor-neutral forensics training? Chime in on the forum.

Forum members debate the usefulness and practicality of ISO 17025.

What kind of salary can a forensic investigator expect to make?

If you were choosing to purchase two mobile forensics tools, what would they be? Share your thoughts in the forum.

What software do you use for call detail records analysis?

Forum members discuss legal privilege in HR investigations. Continue reading Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

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Job Vacancy: Digital Forensics Consultant, Magnet Forensics, North America

What we are looking for:
Reporting to the Director of Marketing, the Forensics Consultant will play an exciting and key role at Magnet Forensics – influencing marketing plans, helping to shape new products, voicing the needs of our customers, and interacting with internal and external stake holders.

Who are we?
We build software that automates the recovery of digital forensic evidence, helping thousands of forensics professionals around the world find, analyze and report on the digital evidence from computers, smartphones and tablets. Continue reading Job Vacancy: Digital Forensics Consultant, Magnet Forensics, North America

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Webinar: Data Visualisation: The Step Forward For Digital Forensics

Date: Wednesday, 6th April 2016
Time: 4PM (GMT) / 8AM (PST) / 11AM (EST)

Registration: http://info.nuix.com/Beyond-Keyword-webinar-EMEA-6Apr-Forensic.html

Presenters: James Billingsley, Principal Solutions Consultant, Cybersecurity & Investigations, Nuix; Robert J. O’Leary, Senior Solutions Engineer, Investigations SME, Nuix

Is keyword search becoming obsolete in the new age of forensic digital investigation?

As the bulk of investigative activity moves from paper to digital documents, keyword searching became the primary tool for identifying relevant evidence in a data set. However, keywords can be imprecise. A search may miss important items or return too many irrelevant results. As data volumes grow, investigators must trawl through ever increasing numbers of search results to find the information they seek.

Traditional digital investigation tools present these results in lists and tables. It quickly becomes too much for the human mind to take in. Data visualisation provides a much easier way for the brain to understand large quantities of data. Continue reading Webinar: Data Visualisation: The Step Forward For Digital Forensics

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Job Vacancy: Technical Support Engineer – Nuix London

Nuix is experiencing phenomenal international growth with no sign of abating. As a result, we require an outstanding Technical Support Engineer to provide first level support for wide range of products offered by Nuix.

The key areas of responsibility will include
● Provide high quality technical support to Nuix customers and ensure that all Nuix clients’ technical outcomes are being met
● Respond to technical support tickets as well as direct customer calls providing first level support
● Triage all issues and, if escalation is required, ensure that all relevant information has been collected and evaluated to ensure rapid resolution
● Assist with Nuix’s current Quality Assurance program to including testing, test writing and use case modelling
● Assist with improving Nuix online documentation
● Develop in-depth expertise in select areas of Nuix related technical knowledge

Read More Continue reading Job Vacancy: Technical Support Engineer – Nuix London

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MoD Building New UK Cybercrime Centre In Corsham

A military site in Wiltshire has been chosen as the preferred location for a new cyber security operations centre by the government.

The £40m base is expected to be housed at MOD Corsham and staffed by experts utilising “state-of-the-art” methods.

The government is investing £1bn over five years to combat cyber attacks.

Read More (BBC) Continue reading MoD Building New UK Cybercrime Centre In Corsham

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Oxygen Forensic Detective 8.3 Expands Data Acquisition From The Cloud Services

Oxygen Forensics announced today that it is releasing Oxygen Forensic Detective 8.3, which expands data extraction features and adds new acquisition methods.

“With most of today’s mobile devices utilizing the cloud to store data, extracting that data in critical times is even more challenging,” said Lee Reiber, Oxygen Forensics COO. “Our ability to acquire data from iOS and Microsoft devices will help our customers, who see many iOS devices in their work in the United States.” Continue reading Oxygen Forensic Detective 8.3 Expands Data Acquisition From The Cloud Services

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