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
MANIFEST - Smartphone app audit technique
Owners of new-generation phones can customise their handsets with thousands of “apps”. These downloadable applications, or programs, can hold vital digital traces of their activity – legal and illegal. The challenge facing investigators who analyse these phones, is that if they don’t know what apps are installed, they don’t know what the phone is capable of.
Developers at CCL-Forensics Ltd have created MANIFEST, a tool which is used in-house on examinations where app-laden smartphones are submitted. MANIFEST extracts details of the installed applications, and presents the analyst with a list of these apps, along with comprehensive details about them, which are stored in CCL-Forensics’ MANIFEST database.
Analysts at CCL-Forensics then use this information to fully understand the phone’s capability, and therefore where the potential evidence may be.
MANIFEST also goes deeper than this. It can provide details of applications which change the way the phone works. This enables CCL-Forensics’ analysts to get an in-depth understanding of where valuable data can be found.
This is illustrated in our brief Youtube video here, or it can also be viewed in our embedded player above.
