Exploits, Tools & Data Recovery · Course 4
The Forensic Tool Landscape
Know the forensic tools, how they are tested and where they go wrong.
- 1Commercial Forensic Suites12 min · Meet the big forensic vendors, what their tools do and who may buy them.
- 2Open-Source & Free Tools12 min · Discover the free LEAPP parsers, Autopsy and why open code matters.
- 3Testing the Tools13 min · See how NIST tests forensic tools and why examiners must check results.
- 4Controversies & Misuse13 min · Study Signal's Cellebrite post, the Serbia spyware case and tool oversight.
- 5Challenge: The Tool Budget15 min · Advise a new county lab on buying, testing and defending its forensic tools.
Hands-on
Do it on the simulated phone
Every lesson has a lab you can try in your browser, plus questions that earn points toward the Toolkeeper badge.
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