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Atola TaskForce allows imaging to up to 5 targets at a time. The targets may include E01 or RAW (.img, .dd) file on a network server target drive plugged into one of 18 TaskForce ports To start an imaging session that includes 5 targets: 1) Click Image icon in the left-side menu 2) Select source and target devices. To create a target file, click Select file icon in the target drive menu and click Continue button. 3) In Select image file, open the folder on the server where you want the file to be created and click the Plus icon. 4) In Create image file pop-up window, type in a Read more…

TaskForce automatically creates reports for every single action applied to each drive connected to it. The system also allows browsing through all cases and reports, without corresponding devices being connected to the unit. The reports are listed and can be easily retrieved in different parts of TaskForce software. 1. Via case page All reports related to the case are listed at the bottom of the case page. Scroll down and turn pages to view all the reports, sort them by date or by title, use the search bar to look for specific reports by their titles. To open a report, click the respective line. 2. Via View reports If you need Read more…

Atola TaskForce’s imaging functionality provides many adjustable settings to help forensic examiners follow the guidelines set by their organizations as well as common-sense evidence handling routines. When you need to create two images of a source drive and verify that both images are identical to the source drive, you will need to calculate the hashes of both targets after imaging. To optimize the process, post-hashing of both target devices is easily configured in imaging settings: 1) Click Image button in the left-side menu 2) Select Source and Target devices, which will redirect you to the page with the summary of current imaging settings. In the default settings, hashing of source drive during Read more…

Among the first users of Atola TaskForce, there are many owners of Atola Insight Forensic systems. Cases from Atola Insight Forensic can easily be imported into TaskForce. First, export cases from Insight’s case management system. To import cases from Insight’s case management system, 1) click Cases in the top left corner of the TaskForce page 2) click the Import button at the bottom of the page. 3) In the file selector, find the zip file that contains cases from Insight’s case management system. Importing will take a few minutes. Then you will be redirected to the report with the list of all imported cases. Now all cases are a part of Read more…