2021 Forensic 4:cast Awards – Results

The 2021 Forensic 4:cast Awards took place on Friday, July 23, 2021 as part of the SANS DFIR Summit. The nominees and winners are listed below:

DFIR Commercial Tool of the Year

• Magnet Forensics
• Cellebrite
• Belkasoft

DFIR Blog of the Year

• D20 Forensics
• Cellebrite Ask the Expert
• DFIR.ru

DFIR Book of the Year

• Practical Mobile Forensics Fourth Edition
• Applied Incident Response
• Confluence of AI, Machine, and Deep Learning in Cyber Forensics (Advances in Digital Crime, Forensics, and Cyber Terrorism (ADCFCT))

DFIR Non-Commercial Tool of the Year

• Kape
• Autopsy
• WinTriage

DFIR CTF / Challenge of the Year

• Cellebrite
• OpenSOC
• Magnet Forensics

DFIR Show of the Year

• Forensic Lunch
• 13Cubed
• Life has no Ctrl-Alt-Delete

DFIR Newcomer of the Year

• Aniello Citarella
• James Duffy
• Jason Wilkins

DFIR Social Media Contributor of the Year

• Ryan Benson
• Jessica Hyde
• Heather Mahalik

DFIR Article of the Year

• How to use iOS Bluetooth connections to solve crimes – Goeckel & Mahalik
• Generic Metadata Time Carving -Nordvik et al.
• Are you sure you extract all the available Volume Serial Numbers (VSNs) that reside in the Windows 10 Event Log “Microsoft-Windows-Partition%4Diagnostic.evtx”? – Atropos4n6

DFIR Degree / Training Program of the Year

• Cellebrite
• SANS
• Magnet Forensics

DFIR Mentor of the Year

• Josh Brunty
• Heather Mahalik
• Jessica Hyde

DFIR Resource of the Year

• This Week in 4n6
• Digital Forensics Discord Server
• About DFIR

DFIR Team of the Year

• Belkasoft
• Cellebrite
• Magnet Forensics

Digital Forensic Investigator of the Year

• Rohan Patil
• Alexis Brignoni
• Paul Lorentz

In addition to the awards, voted by you, we also appointed our second inductee into the DFIR Hall of Fame.: Jad Saliba of Magnet Forensics.