Autopsy’s Year in Review, Brian Carrier, OSDFCon 2020

Autopsy is constantly getting new features and it can be hard to keep up. This talk gives you a rundown of what you may have missed in the past year and provides a brief introduction if you haven’t seen it before. We’ll talk about new interfaces (such as File Discovery and Maps) and new analysis modules (such as Drones and X). We’ll talk about how it can now flag certain types of programs and how you can contribute rules back. There are dozens of new things in Autopsy and we’ll cover the most important ones.

About Brian Carrier
As CTO at Basis Technology, Brian Carrier leads the digital forensics team, which builds software for incident response, digital forensics, and custom mission needs. He is the author of the book, File System Forensic Analysis—used as a textbook in many college-level forensics classes—and developer of several open-source digital forensics analysis tools, including The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy. Brian is an active practitioner in the field of digital forensics and continues to develop new techniques for incident response and forensics. He implements his broad and deep practical experience in open source software, which makes that knowledge available to incident response and law enforcement professionals, saving them time in the field.

Brian has a Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University and worked previously for @stake as a research scientist and the technical lead for their digital forensics lab and incident response team. Brian is the chairperson for the Open Source Digital Forensics Conference (OSDFCon). Besides OSDFCon, Brian has spoken at conferences including DOD Cyber Crime Conference (as keynote speaker), High Tech Crime Investigators Association (HTCIA), Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS), American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), National Cyber Crime Conference (NCCC), and Techno Security.