Digital forensic tools and techniques
CCL-Forensics is committed to staying at the forefront of the digital forensics industry. To achieve this, the company employs a number of full-time dedicated research and development analysts to devise and validate new forensically-sound tools and internal systems to ensure maximum productivity.
As technology continues to advance, the challenges facing digital forensic analysts become more and more complex. But here at CCL-Forensics, we believe that this offers a major opportunity in the world of digital evidence, as devices are capable of holding a much larger quantity of data. "Standard" forensic tools may not extract this data, but CCL-Forensics is constantly developing more and better forensic tools to enable its analysts to extract this potentially valuable evidence.
This page will be regularly updated with details of our R&D advancements, showcasing the tools and techniques we can use to extract more data from more devices in our secure forensic laboratories.
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YouTube video channel
We have produced a number of introductory videos to the tools and techniques developed by our in-house Research and Development department.
These tools and techniques are designed to maximise evidential opportunities, and extract more data from more devices. Please feel free to browse the videos in our Youtube channel below, and if you have any queries, please contact us on 01789 261200 or email info@ccl-forensics.com
F3 Training Sessions
F3 2010
CCL-Forensics gave a presentation on iPhone forenics at the F3 (First Forensic Forum) Training Day in Milton Keynes on 9th December 2010. Presentation slides and whitepaper are now available for download.
This page gives access to various materials discussed during the sessions.
Please click on the links below to download these resources. There are links to external websites below.
Download whitepaper: Property Lists in Digital Forensics 
Download Python SQLite example 
For more information, or if you would like a copy of the XPath utility which was demonstrated during the presentation, please contact CCL-Forensics by emailing info@ccl-forensics.com.
Relevant URLs - as referred to during CCL-Forensics' presentation:
ViaForensics iPhone White Paper (Tool comparison)
www.viaforensics.com/education/white-papers/iphone-forensics/
iPhone Tools
www.iphoneinsecurity.com
iTunes Backup
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766
www.apple.com/uk/iTunes
mdhelper
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/mdhelper.shtml
iPhorensic
www.evigator.com/iphorensic/
Plist Viewer
www.icopybot.com
XPath Tutorial
www.w3schools.com/xpath
SQLite
www.sqlite.org
Python
F3 2011
CCL-Forensics gave a presentation on Python programming at the F3 (First Forensic Forum) Training Day in autumn 2011. Presentation slides from the event are now available for download.
This page gives access to various materials discussed during the sessions.
Please click on the links below to download these resources. There are links to the annotated examples below.
