TheCyberParadigm

Is AI about to repeat the DF tooling race

May 31, 2024 · 1 min read · Academic Opinion ·

During the early 2000s I attended a SANS forensic summit where i asked the question were forensic software vendor tooling making the digital forensic practioner less skilled as they began to rely more and more on tools or as the tools did more for them that understanding was lost, The answer to my question was Yes, …

The Colour Blue

Nov 15, 2023 · 3 min read · Academic Opinion ·

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I feel experience in the Cyber field is measured based on years rather than what was done. Some organisation ask questions about what actions were taken but how the answer is interpreted depends on the interviewers experience also. I was reviewing an aquisition summary where about 1.3GB at the end of a logical …

DFIR, Digital Forensics, Incident Response, Triage. Are they all the same?

Apr 3, 2023 · 2 min read · Incident Response Digital Forensics Opinion ·

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Over recent months i have noted that the term Digital Forensics although labelled the same can have a different meaning to the viewer. Organisations embrace the aforementioned terms but do not have the same definition from organisation to organisation. This is one of the areas I discuss in my lectures. Oxford …

Notice

Mar 30, 2023 · 1 min read · Notification ·

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I have decided to return to my blog that i last touched in 2019. I wanted to recreate it and move away from using blogger. This is the new site to offer normal blog posts but also articles and tutorials that i will add to time permitting. Additional sections may be added as time passes.

Does Threat Intelligence Need to Evolve?

Mar 22, 2023 · 6 min read · Intelligence ·

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The first question is when does information become intelligence? The answer is often as the result of a process being applied to the information. Analysis, validation and grading of the information is required to allow an organisation to make sense of the information. This allows an organisation to apply intelligence …

Forensics Aquisition, Incident Response

Mar 22, 2023 · 1 min read · Digital Forensics Incident Response ·

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Bearing in mind that in the digital investigation space a forensically acquired drive is the preferred method of evidential preservation and subsequent handling. Digital Forensics as a skill became more frequently used during incident response. It is important to remember that digital forensic acquisition was designed …

Digital Forensics, a view from the inside out

Mar 22, 2023 · 7 min read · Digital Forensics ·

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After over a decade practising among other skills Digital Forensics I have seen it progress from an area that was often reserved for the investigative fields often involving court based proceedings to a more business as usual capability particularly in part to the expansion of the Information security field in areas …