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.evtxâ€? – 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.