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Atola team at Forensics Europe Expo
Conferences

Q&A about Atola imagers at GPEC and Forensics Europe Expo

Atola team recently attended a few European events and had lots of great conversations with participants from Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Lithuania, Czechia, Kuwait, Austria, Romania, Hungary, South Korea, Singapore, Egypt, the Netherlands, Denmark, Israel, Ukraine, Georgia, Saudi Arabia, Italy, France and many other countries! We are thrilled to have had the exchange of ideas these events have enabled. Our team of engineers always draws inspiration from the feedback we receive from you. We are certainly looking forward to more! But most importantly, we got a chance to explain how our tools can help you in solving your daily tasks. Here are some of the questions asked and the Read more…

By Yulia Samoteykina, ago
Atola Insight Forensic

Wipe multiple drives in Atola Insight Forensic 5.2

Atola Insight Forensic is hitting a remarkable milestone today with the release of v5.2! This update brings some great new productivity features and more consistent performance. The major changes in the 5.2 software update allow to: wipe multiple drives launch a third-party CLI app after image acquisition is over Let’s delve into the new features to see how they can make you more efficient and productive at work. Wipe multiple drives One of the most popular use cases of Atola Insight Forensic is wiping multiple drives to prepare them for further digital forensic activities. Most of our customers prefer to wipe several drives connected to DiskSense unit simultaneously. To ease Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Wiping multiple drives
RAID imaging with Atola TaskForce
Atola TaskForce

RAID imaging made easy with TaskForce 

In summer 2020, Atola released a groundbreaking RAID functionality in TaskForce to identify, reassemble and image arrays in a fast and forensically sound manner. It made TaskForce the only hardware RAID imager in the world.  Nearly two years and a few firmware updates later, TaskForce is a 3-in-1 solution that: automatically identifies the RAID type and configuration; images the array or its specific parts (partition, folder or file level) at high speed; automatically rebuilds data in arrays with redundancy (1, 5, 10) and recovers data from damaged RAID members. The most recent releases supplemented the existing features set with more RAID types and file systems, enhanced configuration search algorithms and Read more…

By Olga Milishenko, ago
Logical imaging
Atola TaskForce

Logical imaging in TaskForce 2022.4

Hurray! Atola has released the newest firmware for TaskForce introducing Logical Imaging as the update’s key feature. The 2022.4 firmware also includes these major enhancements: improvements to the RAID autodetection module NVMe drive diagnostics 50% increase in the speed of SHA hash calculation in-depth FAT32/16 filesystem support new Date/Time, ‘Add case’ button, printing settings Logical imaging Atola TaskForce customers have been asking about it a lot. Here are just a few requests: “We would want to be able to verify with the client the number of successful files recovered, preferably by extension (.JPG, PDF, DOC, ETC).”   “I need to image XFS files because Windows doesn’t see XFS partitions.”   Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola TaskForce

When TaskForce’s integration into your automation solution is a game changer

When it comes to multi-stage investigative routines that are regularly applied to evidence drives coming into a lab, automation is king. It allows creating workflows and setting up particular procedures so that a sequence of multiple tasks is launched with a single click and demands no further control by the operator.  The key benefits of automation are:  Saves an investigator’s time: Automation allows users to focus on the parts of their jobs that require human attention, while entrusting routine tasks to a fine-tuned system.  Reduces processing time: There is no or minimal downtime between the different stages of acquisition and analysis. Streamlines the process and eliminates human error: When you Read more…

By Yulia Samoteykina, ago
web api
TaskForce forensic imager
Atola TaskForce

Image. Anything. Fast. What makes TaskForce the ultimate forensic imager

Atola’s high-performance TaskForce forensic imager has a well-developed imaging functionality that performs a huge variety of acquisition-related jobs. Not only does it assemble, identify RAID configuration and image RAID arrays. TaskForce also safely handles damaged evidence drives, verifies data on good and bad media, performs selective imaging, has a special zero-click imaging mode on its 17 source ports, etc.  In this blog, we will touch on all of these and other imaging options that make TaskForce an imager that exceeds your expectations. Optimize your performance  TaskForce is equipped with a variety of time-saving features that boost your productivity, making your work with evidence drives simple and effective. With its 18 Read more…

By Olga Milishenko, ago
Company news

2021 Year in Review

2021 became a truly transformational year in the history of Atola Technology. Years come and go, what stays are our accomplishments, lessons learned, people met and ideas shared. This year we achieved success, welcomed obstacles and embraced challenges: global chip shortage, new hardware and features, easing of travel restrictions, new business processes, etc. All this will have shaped our development as a team and a business. So in the waning hours of 2021, let’s have a look and reflect on what we have experienced.   DiskSense 2 The most exciting event of 2021 was the launch of DiskSense 2 hardware unit for Atola Insight Forensic in July. We saw an Read more…

By Yulia Samoteykina, ago
Merry Christmas
Locating sectors Atola Insight Forensic
Atola Insight Forensic

Atola Insight Forensic 5.1.1 new release

Atola team congratulates you on the upcoming Christmas and New Year holidays! Therefore, we decided to release this minor software update of Atola Insight – 5.1.1 version. While we are working on new features you’ll see in the next 5.2 update, the released version improves stability in several modules. And, of course, it supports both units: DiskSense (2014) DiskSense 2 (2021) Bugfixes DiskSense 2 unit only: Stability issue with imaging Macbooks via Thunderbolt extension Redundant symbols could show up on the IP Display. Saving report To PDF/HTML could omit statistic fields like Sectors calculated in Chinese/Japanese languages. Diagnostics. “Current channel is not AHCIChannel” exception in the Diagnostic report appearing for Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Conferences

Top digital forensics conferences in 2022

The new list of DFIR 2023 events is here: Top digital forensic conferences in 2023 2021 brought back some of the conferences, exhibitions, training courses and other events dedicated to digital forensics. We look at the next year with optimism and hope that many more forensic events will return and brand new ones will be organized! Here is a list of 35+ digital forensics events already in planning. We will keep it regularly updated and add new events as they get announced. Save the link and check this post for updates as we move into 2022! The events supported by Atola Technology or our partners are marked with an asterisk (*). Read more…

By Yulia Samoteykina, ago