Forensic Focus Digest, August 21 2026
Discover what’s new on Forensic Focus – explore UK police well-being funding, BitLocker decryption, protecting investigators working on child safeguarding cases, and more.
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Impact, Coping And Support – Further Reflections From The DFIR Well-Being Study
What does repeated exposure to traumatic digital evidence really do to investigators? Phil Anderson returns to the Forensic Focus Podcast to unpack more findings from the international well-being study.
Cellebrite Genesis For Enterprise Now Generally Available, Regional Availability Expands To More Global Markets
Cellebrite Genesis is expanding globally and is now generally available to enterprises, helping teams surface critical connections in minutes rather than weeks.
Unmasked: Throughput Is Not Prioritisation
When every file is treated as equally urgent, critical intelligence can get lost in the backlog. See how S21 VisionX helps investigators prioritise what matters most.
Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 19 2026
Read the latest DFIR news – UK police investigator well-being, cloud search warrant strategy, Timestamped for macOS, iLEAPP and ALEAPP updates, and more.
£2.4 Million For UK Police Well-Being – What Will It Actually Buy?
Paul Gullon-Scott examines whether £2.4m for police well-being is enough to turn good national initiatives into meaningful support on the ground.
Investigations Don’t Arrive In One Tidy Format
From mobile extractions and emails to cloud data and video, see how Cellebrite Genesis brings diverse evidence sources together to help enterprise investigators reach faster, source-traceable and defensible findings.
New DFIR Mental Health Training Webinar (CPD-Accredited)
New CPD-accredited training from our Well-Being Lead, Paul Gullon-Scott, is now available to help digital forensic investigators and their organisations better understand and manage the psychological demands of the role — book your place today.
AI Image Classification For Forensics – Build Custom Detectors In Seconds | BelkaGPT
See how BelkaGPT turns image forensics from “scroll and squint” into “describe and detect” with offline AI image descriptions and instant custom classifiers – no training datasets required.
Protecting Those Who Protect Children: Inspection Findings And The Evidence Base For Investigator Well-Being
A major new HMICFRS report exposes the urgent need for proactive, mandatory mental health support for digital forensic investigators and others working daily with online child sexual abuse material.
UPCOMING WEBINAR – Reducing ICAC Backlogs: Prioritizing Digital Evidence For Faster Investigations
Join Rich Frawley of ADF Solutions as he shares practical strategies for managing complex ICAC scenes, prioritizing the devices most likely to contain probative evidence, and making faster, more informed decisions in the field.