Department of Homeland Security to Present Triage Tool for First Responders

by bhedquist@adfsolutions.com

The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology organization (DHS S&T) will be presenting and demonstrating Triage-Responder® at the upcoming Annual Internet Crimes Against Children Conference (ICAC).

 Triage-Responder:  A DHS Science and Technology Initiative for State and Local Law Enforcement

2012 Annual ICAC Conference
“Partners in Protecting Children”
Hyatt Regency Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
April 17 – 19, 2012
Pre-Event Workshops: April 16, 2012

Where/When:
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
• 9am, Room: Hanover F
• 11am, Room: Hanover G

More details here

 

Forensic Triage Expert, Harry Parsonage, Interview

by bhedquist@adfsolutions.com

Read this interesting and informative interview with Harry Parsonage, experienced digital forensic triage expert and former DS at Nottingham Police DFU.

“Prior to joining ADF Solutions Harry Parsonage was a police officer for nearly 31 years in the UK. He spent 23 years as a detective sergeant managing and investigating the full range of crime from rape, robbery, child abuse, homicide, to corruption and serious fraud. For the last 11 years of his service he managed a police digital forensic unit and at the same time was a hands-on forensic practitioner. In 2007 he introduced a triage process to his DFU which reduced the backlog from 12 months to less than 6 months over a period of just 9 months. Harry is well known in the forensic community for his papers on MSN Artifacts, Windows Link Files, and Web Browser Session Restore Forensics and is on the editorial panel for the UK’s ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) Good Practice Guide for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence and also the ACPO Guide for Managers of eCrime Units.”

Click for full interview

http://f-interviews.com/2012/03/01/interview-with-harry-parsonage/

Digital Forensic Triage Gets Tangible Results, Secures Convictions

by bhedquist@adfsolutions.com

This article published by the Nottinghamshire Police in the U.K. offers several recent examples of how Triage-Examiner can help accelerate the prosecution of criminals, and “sex offenders and victims being identified quicker than ever before.” The article also goes on to describe how they were able to reduce their digital forensic backlog in half.

Read the entire article and get the specifics here

 

DFI News: Parameters for Selecting a Triage Tool

by adfadmin

Several months ago, the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM is charged with overseeing the various Special Operations Commands of the U.S. Armed Forces), conducted an evaluation of computer media exploitation and cellular telephone exploitation products, systems, and tools. The evaluation was organized by the USSOCOM Program Office. Triage tools were included as a separate category along with other computer media exploitation tools. An important part of the evaluation was to include representation from each of the respective military services to ensure that the triage tools were evaluated respective to any service-unique requirements. Overall, the objective of the evaluation was to determine which triage tool could best meet the military’s requirements for procurement and worldwide dissemination. Selection of specific triage tools for evaluation was based on previous procurements by both the USSOCOM Program Office and by individual military operational units.

The following  article covers how USSOCOM tested and selected a triage tool that best fit the military’s needs and requirements.  The article was posted on DFI News by John Barbara from Digital Forensics Consulting, LLC.

Read article here: http://www.dfinews.com/article/parameters-selecting-triage-tool