Changes to our ACCD course

We’re expanding and enhancing our Acquiring Challenging Computer Devices (ACCD) course

Retiring our ASTA course

After running 43 ASTA courses over the last 10 years, the time has come to adjust our focus and take a new approach.

Course price increases (effective April 2025)

Our course prices are increasing for bookings made from 1 April 2025 onwards

Are you our next Course Manager?

We’re looking for a Course Manager to join our team at Wyboston Lakes. The role combines classroom teaching alongside the creation of new training course content.

IT Technician

Are you the unofficial tech support for friends and family? The one people call on to set up their new laptop or to work out why they can’t connect to the internet? Constantly being asked for your opinion on the merits of iPhone over Android?

New training for investigators

For too long, investigators have been the neglected link in a chain which stretches from device seizure all the way to the courtroom. Investigators are passed huge volumes of data to review in multiple tools and expected to understand and locate data which could be critical to the investigation; all without the benefit of structured […]

Successfully acquire Macs, Chromebooks and Surface Pros

Our new 2 day training course should make life easier for forensic examiners faced with acquiring data from three challenging device platforms

Course Manager

Control-F is now looking for an office-based Course Manager to join our small but growing team.  We need someone to take responsibility for creating, delivering and maintaining training course content, ensuring that both materials and delivery remain current, engaging and accurate.

Just how much of the web activity on a mobile device are you seeing?

“shomium” is a free open-source tool from Control-F which identifies and decodes web activity from apps on Android and iOS devices which commercial forensic tools may miss.

Attributing media files using our new open source tool “mift”

Determining the origin of media files recovered from mobile devices just became easier with the release of our open source tool “mift”

New “Intermediate Mobile Device Repair” training opens in May 2022

We’ve been delighted with the response from our customers to our entry-level Mobile Device Repair training which launched in July 2020. We were extremely busy during 2021 teaching delegates how to replace screens, repair data ports, power devices with dead batteries and much more. Delegates have been asking us for “next level” training to help […]

Evolution of our chip-off training

We’re excited to announce the next chapter in our delivery of chip-off training, a field that we’ve been supporting our customers in for over 8 years. Although recovery of unencrypted data via chip-off is still viable for some devices, it is much less of an opportunity than it once was. However, the ability to be […]