Since October this year, our  new study is taking all my time and resources. It was quite dramatic start more like Indiana Jones type of academic than anything else.

By some strange set of events number of students doubled from 20 to 45 during November. This unexpected expansion what caused havoc on schedules.

The idea of virtual forensic lab, better to say virtual forensic workstations kept quite well with expansion and bumping. After some starting issues with cloud resources, it was easy to expand.

Most problem was in licencing and expanding commercial tools to appropriate number of concurrent machines.  We had a huge problems with EnCase with adding new licences on the licence manager. Actually if the EnCase does not have some very important features crucial for future digital forensics we will dump it because of trouble we have in keeping with broken support system.

At the moment I'm sharing lectures on course "Digital Forensics" which is introduction training for other later subjects. Practical work for students is based on Encase and Autopsy where Encase is told  in hands on lab, while students are usinng Autopsy  in their assignments to verify results done trough Encase. This will be more or less standard study policy to use free tool/commercial tool pairs for same tasks to get skills in both and more important to understand how to use it in synergy.