It is hard to to write something for blog, plenty of things happen but I can't see any usefulness writing about it. I've finished one training of Advanced Forensic and found EnCase servlets for latest mac OS faulty, fortunately new release of Encase gets updated servlets, Nice to see EnCase is still trying to survive but it all looks supernatural. Almost all people I know left company in last few months, re-branding product, name changes, communication channels and support links almost all is changed or gone.
Even worse there was some arguments among shareholders and management mentioned recently on LinkeInd, all this are not good signs, Looks like trouble with version v7, well known, but an publicly unspoken thing is taking its toll. Even after so many years v7 is still dobious among many users.
Other big vendors had its own troubles too, Access data had some reorganisation and splinting into different companies lately, same signs of kind of trouble, but at least FTK is still working in acceptable manner.
I suppose this is final signs of problems which this market has, even better to say whole IT security and law enforcement oriented digital forensics vendors.
All this leaves bad taste and big frustration.
I hope EnCase as product can survive, since it has some great things in it, but also a lot of misconceptions, Enterprise version with its fine tunned acces control system is good, perfect thing which is strangely seldom seen in usage. Ability to develop code for your own extensions is extremly useful but again seldom used in community. Looking from distant Europe even further from broke and technically undeveloped Croatia whole market looks in turmoil with plenty of snake oil around.
It all looks like a giant flop waiting to happen.
Verizon put some nice case studies online worth of reading, "Data breach digest" nice reading, I'll prepare some of cases as material for my students.
Even worse there was some arguments among shareholders and management mentioned recently on LinkeInd, all this are not good signs, Looks like trouble with version v7, well known, but an publicly unspoken thing is taking its toll. Even after so many years v7 is still dobious among many users.
Other big vendors had its own troubles too, Access data had some reorganisation and splinting into different companies lately, same signs of kind of trouble, but at least FTK is still working in acceptable manner.
I suppose this is final signs of problems which this market has, even better to say whole IT security and law enforcement oriented digital forensics vendors.
All this leaves bad taste and big frustration.
I hope EnCase as product can survive, since it has some great things in it, but also a lot of misconceptions, Enterprise version with its fine tunned acces control system is good, perfect thing which is strangely seldom seen in usage. Ability to develop code for your own extensions is extremly useful but again seldom used in community. Looking from distant Europe even further from broke and technically undeveloped Croatia whole market looks in turmoil with plenty of snake oil around.
It all looks like a giant flop waiting to happen.
Verizon put some nice case studies online worth of reading, "Data breach digest" nice reading, I'll prepare some of cases as material for my students.
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