The coronavirus outbreak is affecting people and businesses worldwide. Neither Control-F nor its staff are immune to that (although that would be nice) and we thought it would be helpful to explain how the ever-evolving situation is affecting how we serve our customers.

1. We have postponed some courses which were scheduled for the coming weeks. We hate doing that, but naturally we will follow government advice and can’t help but be affected by travel bans imposed by customer organisations.We will continue to assess the viability of courses scheduled for the coming months and contact booked delegates to keep them informed. To see which courses are affected, please check our Course Schedule page.
2. As you would expect, our staff are working from home and will be using the opportunity to update our existing materials, write new course content and develop our internal infrastructure. Not only that, family pets are receiving more attention, lunchtime runs are being taken and poached eggs have become a feasible lunch option. Every cloud…

Stay safe, stay in touch and we will look forward to resuming our classroom training in the not too distant future.

Repairing evidential mobile devices has never been more important. Device encryption may hamper physical extraction methods such as chip-off and direct eMMC and therefore it has become increasingly important for digital forensic units to be able to repair evidential exhibits in-house.

We’re delighted to announce details, dates and pricing for our new Mobile Device Repair training course which aims to teach delegates how to troubleshoot damaged devices and then repair them in a time and cost-effective manner.

Full details including dates, pricing and our course flyer can be found on our website here.

Due to increased demand for places, we have added an extra Foundation in Mobile Phone Forensics course into our schedule, running 18-22 March. This 4½ day course is designed for staff starting out in mobile device forensics and prepares them for undertaking evidential casework.
In the words of two delegates from our September 2018 course:

• “Best course I’ve been on in 20 years in the job!”
• “The trainer was superb, the course was fun, dynamic and interactive.”

Contact us to enquire about availability

For the first time in 4 years, our prices will be increasing in January 2019. The price rise applies to bookings received after December 31st 2018.

You can still book courses taking place in 2019 at our current prices by submitting your booking forms before January 1st 2019.

Although the cost of purchasing a new Training Pass will increase, the credit costs for individual courses will remain the same (so current holders of a Training Pass are not affected).

Get in touch if you would like more information.

We’re delighted to announce the launch of a new 3½ day hex analysis training course for digital forensic practitioners, Demystifying Hex Data. This intermediate level course will explain hex data in simple terms and give existing mobile forensic examiners a true understanding of the data recovered and decoded by forensic software tools. Delegates will leave the course confident in navigating and carving data using a hex editor, and capable of recovering and presenting evidence which commercial forensic tools may have missed.

The course not only covers text encodings (including ASCII and Unicode), regular expressions and Endian-ness but crucially shows delegates how these concepts have practical application in tasks such as finding and then repairing unplayable 3GP/MP4 video files.

Our next scheduled course runs 9-12 July 2018 at Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire (UK). Get in touch to check availability.