Digital forensics

So I would say, yes, defer is a fantastic skill.

But I will say, if you're looking to get a job in digital forensics, it is a very hard field to land in because there is very, very small pockets of actual people who do this for a living.

And most people do it as a secondary to their primary job function.

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Salt Typhoon use anti-forensic techniques, clearing logs and modifying registry keys to stay invisible.

For the GSEC and Pentest Plus, this is where digital forensics becomes critical.

We follow the order of volatility.

We start with the RAM and network cache because they disappear as soon as you reboot.

My guest today is the fabulous Josh Lemon, a globally recognized cybersecurity expert and SANS instructor with a career built across digital forensic, incident response, and threat hunting.

Currently serving as the Chief of Digital Forensics and Incident Response at CeteriaSec, Josh helps protect some of the world's largest international brands from cyber attacks.

Josh joins us today at Adelaide Sec to ask the question, are ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini useful in a breach investigation? Josh, welcome to Cyber Voices.

Thanks for having me.

the right output for the most part.

Where are they still continuing to hurt or hinder the process though?

I think the hard part, and this is a challenge with digital forensics and its response, generally speaking, is our field requires human analysis, requires creativity to a degree, to be able to look at evidence and go, all right, if I kind of piece these things

together

Was it Hayden Panettiere, or was it one of her enablers? Um, with us, Dr.

Jim Jones out of Herndon, Virginia, cyber security digital forensics expert, digital forensics program director, professor, George Mason University.

Dr. Jones, thank you for being with us.

You know, when Crispin rattles it off like that, it sounds so easy.

I'm your host, private investigator, Ed Opperman.

You can get a hold of me at Opperman Investigations and Digital Forensics.

Oh, no, no, no, no. Opperman Investigations and Strategic Solutions.

If you reach out to me through...

Not that I'm not doing digital forensics anymore.

I can still help you with that if you need that.

But we're focusing now on more political opposition research and executive vetting, pre-employment screening, things of that nature.

Where was all the, where was all the, the, the, I...

The, the techn- the digital forensics in this? I'm looking at this.

This is so despicable and disgusting.

And nobody's calling them on this? And all these Afro Tech leaders, they don't even...