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Presentations & Interviews

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A Year of #DailyDFIR

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A Year of #DailyDFIR

A look back at a year of tweeting every day about DFIR topics - including a recap of the most popular tweets, coverage trends, and what's next in 2021.

"Cache Up" with Ryan Benson

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"Cache Up" with Ryan Benson

I sat down with Jessica Hyde (from Magnet Forensics) on her "Cache Up" podcast and talked about my DFIR career, open source projects, and share thoughts on how folks can get started in DFIR. Check it out!

Unfurl on "Life Has No Ctrl+Alt+Delete"

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Unfurl on "Life Has No Ctrl+Alt+Delete"

A few weeks ago I was on "Life Has No Ctrl+Alt+Del" with @HeatherMahalik of Cellebrite giving an overview of Unfurl, how to use it, and walking through (many) examples. The video recording is now up!

Video of "Extract & Visualize Data from URLs using Unfurl" Posted

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Video of "Extract & Visualize Data from URLs using Unfurl" Posted

My talk "Extract and Visualize Data from URLs using Unfurl" at the SANS DFIR Summit 2020 has been posted on YouTube! I had a great time presenting at the first ever virtual DFIR Summit (yay 2020). Check out the video below and give Unfurl a try!

Talking about Unfurl on the Forensic Lunch

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Talking about Unfurl on the Forensic Lunch

Ryan Benson on Dave Cowen's Forensic Lunch talking about Unfurl (and other DFIR things).

Video of "Efficiently Summarizing Web Browsing Activity" at SANS DFIR Summit 2018

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Video of "Efficiently Summarizing Web Browsing Activity" at SANS DFIR Summit 2018

I spoke at the SANS DFIR Summit 2018 on "Efficiently Summarizing Web Browsing Activity" in Austin, TX. My abstract was: Reviewing web browsing activity is relevant in a wide variety of DFIR cases. With many users having multiple devices that may need to be analyzed, we need better

Ryan Benson Interviewed by BBC Click about Web Browsers

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Ryan Benson Interviewed by BBC Click about Web Browsers

I was interviewed by BBC Click for their "What is GDPR?" episode. I'm not really sure what the personal information web browsers are storing on your computer has to do with the GDPR, but hey, I got to talk about browser forensics on TV so that

Deciphering Browser Hieroglyphics

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Deciphering Browser Hieroglyphics

I spoke about "Deciphering Browser Hieroglyphics" at the SANS DFIR Summit 2017 in Austin, TX. I talked about how to "decipher" different kinds of information stored in web browsers, using a variety of open source tools. A recording of most of the talk is available YouTube

Video of "Customized Google Chrome Forensics with Python" at SANS DFIR Summit 2015

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Video of "Customized Google Chrome Forensics with Python" at SANS DFIR Summit 2015

I spoke at the SANS DFIR Summit 2015 on "Customized Google Chrome Forensics with Python" in Austin, TX. My presentation introduced Hindsight, an open source tool (written in Python) for extracting, interpreting, and reporting on Google Chrome artifacts. I went over how to use Hindsight to analyze a

Featured on Autopsy Blog

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Featured on Autopsy Blog

I will be speaking at the Open Source Digital Forensics Conference (OSDFCon) next month about a new tool I'm releasing. It's called SQUID, or SQLite Unknown Identifier, and it finds exact and near matches of SQLite databases based on database structure. I spoke with the folks