What is Digital Forensics?

If you are just starting out in Information/Cyber Security, investigating career fields, or moving to management of a Digital Forensics team, you may be asking yourself “What is Digital Forensics”.  

Our founder, Jessica Hyde, has been lucky to explore this topic recently both as part of a guest blog post for Magnet Forensics, “DFIR: What is Digital Forensics and Incident Response”. Here she explores not only what Digital Forensics is, but how it relates to Incident Response, the commonalities and the differences.

Completely new to digital forensics and want to listen to a podcast that explores the question “What is digital forensics?. Jessica was recently featured on the Getting Schooled Podcast with Abby Hornacek. Learn about what digital forensics examiners do and the exact questions folks want to know about the field from this conversation. Check it out here!  

Want to learn more about Digital Forensics? Check out the Intro to Forensics courses on Cyber5W academy. This is a great place to begin exploring the technical details of the work forensics examiners do everyday. These courses are designed to be self-paced on-demand courses that make it easy to learn in the time you have available.