For the fans of Encase Portable out there (especially Jack), you should be aware that equipping investigators is not a new concept. I recommend you look at the forensic triage line offered by ADF Solutions (www.adfsolutions.com).

ADF Solutions does not directly compete with Guidance or AccessData. The company is not public so this posting is not intended to drive stock traffic.

This message is intended to provide the readers on this message board with a sense of where the forensic market will be heading in the coming years.

Remember that the biggest problems out there today are the mounting forensic backlogs. The only way to reduce these backlogs is to reduce the number of computers entering the backlog - this means forensic triage of the incoming computers. You may want to check out this independent white paper on the benefits of forensic triage- http://computerforensics.parsonage.co.uk...

Here is a link on some impressive results: http://www.nottinghamshire.police.uk/new...

For the importance of forensic triage in the coming years, you may want to check out this response from the FBI in response to a scathing audit they received on their unacceptable forensic backlogs: http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/reports/FBI/a09...

This paper has a lot of interesting stuff but the key excerpt is in their Response# 2:
“The FBI Digital Evidence Section (DES), is working within and without the Deputy Attorney General's Computer Forensic Working Group (CFWG) to "continue to develop strategies for DES to reduce the backlog of digital evidence related to crimes against children cases requiring forensic analysis.
The FBI strategy is fourfold: 1) Increase internal efficiencies in the examination process and the management of examiners and backlogs in field offices; 2) Empower investigative agents to utilize forensically tested tools at search scenes to make informed decisions on what media to seize and not seize, thereby more strategically controlling the ingestion of data in the first instance; 3) Assist the DOJ in the development of a permissible plea negotiation policy which seeks to felony convict more low risk offenders with less forensic resources, thereby reversing the trend of exhausting scarce forensic resources in a limited number of investigations while reserving greater forensic bandwidth for more egregious investigations, and; 4) Seek to acquire additional personnel and funding resources to attempt to keep pace with the burgeoning influx of digital evidence requiring forensic examinations not just in child exploitation investigations, but in all investigative categories.”


J.J. Wallia
CEO/Co-founder
ADF Solutions, Inc.