February 22nd, 2012
We’re delighted to announce that our first Android & BlackBerry Forensics course will be running 17-20 September 2012 at Wyboston Lakes (UK). We’ll be teaching phone examiners how to get to grips with the various security mechanisms that both operating systems provide as well as recovering BlackBerry Messenger contacts & conversations, pulling app data from SQLite databases and much more besides.
More details regarding the course can be found here
Places are already being snapped up, so contact us to book a place on the course.
February 21st, 2012
Our eye was caught recently by the editorial section of Digital Investigation journal (Vol 8, Issue 1, 2011, p2)
“Although it is important for practitioners to be conversant with forensic tools, training programs that concentrate on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) forensic products are generally insufficient. An effective training program develops core competencies in digital forensics, and teaches practitioners to combine various existing tools and methods…….Although training that concentrates on commercial off-the-shelf forensic tools enables practitioners to perform certain routine tasks, digital investigators need to appreciate the limitations of each tool and have versatility in using multiple tools.
Hear hear!
At Control-F we believe passionately that digital forensics training is about more than knowing which buttons to click. We think digital forensic analysts need to understand underlying principles first and then introduce them to tools which will implement and automate those principles and processes (thereby making the forensic analyst more efficient).
Our vendor-neutral training courses utilise multiple tools from different vendors; we assess the value of different products during our research and course development and only include products on our courses which we trust. Any products which appear in our training courses are there because of their usefulness; we don’t get paid to include tools in our courses (although our customers often receive discounts for those products by attending our training!)
As the American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson once said
“As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.”
February 20th, 2012
Control-F Managing Director Kevin Mansell has been invited to speak at the International Communications Data & Digital Forensics Seminar (ICDDF) 2012 at London Heathrow which is running 26-29 March 2012. Kevin will be talking about the challenges posed for phone examiners by the 7-bit encoding of SMS messages, particularly when trying to identify and recover SMS from hex dumps of mobile handsets. Kevin will provide practical advice to help phone examiners find and recover more evidence in less time.
Our Phone Forensics Deconstructed course teaches delegates about the structure of SMS messages at a bits and bytes level, giving them the knowledge and skills they need to be able to search for, recover and interpret live and deleted SMS from hex dumps of a multitude of handset models.
January 30th, 2012
Recovering deleted data from the BB5 series of Nokia handsets has long proved troublesome….until now. Control-F’s Flasher Box Forensics training course now teaches students how to safely recover deleted data from BB5 handsets such as the popular Nokia 6300, 6500 Classic, 6500 Slide and many more (without the need for physical chip removal!). In addition, students will learn how to access security code protected handsets, recover security code details and gain unrestricted access to the handset (such that a logical extraction can be performed).
Contact us now to book on our next scheduled course in May, or to enquire about running the course at your location.
January 23rd, 2012
Control-F is delighted to announce that it is running scheduled entry-level phone forensics training at Wyboston Lakes in the form of our Foundation in Mobile Phone Forensics course. Our next course runs on 23-27th April 2012 and is open to law enforcement and private sector delegates.
Foundation in Mobile Phone Forensics is a 4½ day course designed for those just starting out in mobile phone forensics (or existing examiners who have not had the benefit of formal training). The course is highly practical with delegates gaining hands-on experience with market leading forensic tools as they work through a series of realistic scenarios. Students are taught the theory and the practical sides of recovering evidence from handsets, SIM cards and memory cards.
By attending Control-F training courses, delegates will be exposed to forensic tools and products from a range of vendors (including many free utilities); thereby allowing them to compare and contrast their performance and quantify their benefit to their unit or department. All Control-F training is built around the ACPO Principles of Computer Based Digital Evidence so that customers can be assured that what is being taught is consistent with internationally recognised good practice in digital forensics.
At Control-F we know that there will be many occasions when delegates have returned to the workplace and will need to refer back to a topic that was covered on the course. For that reason students attending Foundation in Mobile Phone Forensics receive high quality printed & electronic training materials which include a 95 page book (fully referenced and written specifically to accompany the course).
Contact us today to enquire about availability and pricing.
