The awards ceremony was held at the SANS DFIR Summit in Austin on July 26, 2019.
The winners of the awards are marked in BOLD below:
DFIR Commercial Tool of the Year
- *Magnet Forensics*
- Cellebrite
- X-Ways Forensic
DFIR Blog of the Year
- *Hacking Exposed Computer Forensics Blog*
- mac4n6
- Binary Foray
DFIR Non-commercial Tool of the Year
- Volatility
- Autopsy
- *Eric Zimmerman Tools*
DFIR Show of the Year
- *Forensic Lunch*
- 13Cubed
- This Month in Forensics
DFIR Book of the Year
- *SQLite Forensics – Paul Sanderson*
- Investigating Windows System -Harlan Carvey
- Mobile Forensic Investigations – Lee Reiber
DFIR Article of the Year
- Mastering EDL Mode – Scott Lorenz
- *Knowledge is Power – Sarah Edwards*
- A forensic examination of the technical and legal challenges surrounding the investigation of child abuse on live streaming platforms: A case study on Periscope – Graeme Horsman
DFIR Social Media Contributor of the Year
- Brett Shavers
- Phill Moore
- *Eric Zimmerman*
DFIR Degree Program or Training Class of the Year
- Cybersecurity & Digital Forensics – Champlain College
- *Cellebrite Training Courses*
- SANS FOR508
DFIR Groundbreaking Research of the Year
- *APOLLO and Knowledge C – Sarah Edwards*
- Event Tracing for Windows – Nicole Ibrahim
- NTFS Timestamps and Registry – Maxim Suhanov
DFIR Resource of the Year
- *This Week in Forensics*
- DFIR Training
- About DFIR
DFIR Newcomer of the Year
- Brooke Cavides
- *Jamie Vendel*
- Kevin Pagano
DFIR Team of the Year
- *Magnet Forensics*
- Kroll
- G-C Partners
Digital Forensic Investigator of the Year
- Mari DeGrazia
- Alexis Brignoni
- *Eric Zimmerman*
Live Vote: Presentation of the Summit
- *Distributed Evidence Collection and Analysis with Velociraptor: Fast, Surgical, at Scale… and Free! – Nick Klein & Mike Cohen*