Balancing Act: Trials, Training, and the Future of Digital Forensics

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Recognizing excellence is key in our community, and we spotlight the SANS Difference Maker Awards and Cellebrite Summit Digital Justice Awards. Discover why it’s crucial to nominate your peers and learn about the newly opened registration for IACIS 2025 training classes, featuring must-attend courses like Advanced Mobile Device Forensics. 

While highlighting a recent article by Brett Shavers, we stress the significance of continuous education and community acknowledgment in helping digital forensics professionals grow and excel.

Our conversation delves into the technical challenges of iOS Telegram data analysis and the development of tools like Kathryn Hedley's Parse USBs script. We shed light on the importance of peer reviews and cognitive bias in forensics. This episode is a deep dive into the intricacies of digital forensics, education, and the community that drives it forward.

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SANS Difference Maker Awards 
https://www.sans.org/about/awards/difference-makers/

Cellebrite Summit Digital Justice awards
https://cellebrite.com/en/c2c-summit-digital-justice-awards/

IACIS 2025 Training
https://iacis.com/training/

Belkasoft - iOS Telegram Acquisition and Database Analysis
 https://belkasoft.com/ios-telegram-forensics-acquisition-and-database-analysis

Kathryn Hedley parseusbs script
https://www.khyrenz.com/post/automated-usb-artefact-parsing-from-the-registryhttps://github.com/khyrenz/parseusbs

Cracking OneDrives Personal Vault -Brian Maloney
https://malwaremaloney.blogspot.com/2024/09/cracking-onedrives-personal-vault.html
https://github.com/Beercow/Personal-Vault-BEK

Brett Shavers New Article - Today, today I rant
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/today-i-rant-dfir-training-brett-shavers--pij4c/

Lionel Notari Logs of the Week
https://www.ios-unifiedlogs.com/unifiedlogoftheweek