Forensic 4cast Awards
Voting for the 2010 Forensic 4cast Awards is now open. Please take some time to place your votes at http://forensic4cast.com/2010/06/16/forensic-4cast-awards-2010-voting-is-open/.
On Sunday 19th July 2009 the first annual Digital Forensic Awards were held by the Forensic 4cast Team.
Over 400 votes were cast by the nominees’ peers in the digital forensic field.
The nominees are listed below and the winners are highlighted in red. The awards ceremony can be viewed here.
Outstanding Contribution to Digital Forensics (Individual)
Matt Shannon (F-Response)
Rob Lee (SANS/Mandiant)
Jamie Morris (Forensic Focus)
Outstanding Contribution to Digital Forensics (Company)
F-Response
Sans Forensics
X-Ways
Best Digital Forensic Article/Blog Posting
Iphone White Paper
pdgMail
Memory Forensic Acquisition and Analysis 101
Best Digital Forensic Blog
Windows IR (Harlan Carvey)
Sans (Sans Forensics Team)
Forensickb (Lance Mueller)
Best Digital Forensic Book
Windows Forensic Analysis (Harlan Carvey)
IPhone Forensics (Jonathan Zdziarski)
File System Forensic Analysis (Brian Carrier)
Best Computer Forensic Hardware Tool
Tableau
Fastbloc
Macquisition
Best Computer Forensic Software Tool
X-Ways Forensics
DCFLDD
Drive Prophet
Best Phone Forensic Hardware Tool
Cellebrite
Susteen
XRY
Best Phone Forensic Software Tool
Datapilot
XRY
Pandora’s Box
Digital Forensic Examiner of the Year
David Kleiman
Rob Lee
Jonathan Zdzjarski
Lifetime Achievement Award
Rob Lee
Brian Carrier
Ovie Carrol
The ‘Huh?’ Award
Winner: Josh Muszynski – charged $23,148,855,308,184,500 for a packet of cigarettes.
Digital Forensics Humanitarian Award
Johnny Long for his dedication to ‘Hackers for Charity’.
The Forensic 4cast Awards – because even nerds deserve an award!

