Digital forensics nerd. Opinions are mine and subject to change. He/Him.
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🖥 Developer of open-source tools for digital forensics (iLEAPP, ALEAPP, & RLEAPP.)
📱 Digital forensics examiner specializing in mobile forensics.
🔊 Public speaker on cybersecurity and digital investigations.
🃏 Certified Digital Forensics Memer
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Coming to a department, lab, or office near you.
Let's be clear, LLM technology takes the work performed at the front end of our forensics process and places it at the back end. There is no free lunch and the promise of speed if you buy an LLM product is no exception. If you affect one side if the process the other side will be just as affected. The equation always requires balancing.
Never forget that any shortcut in the forensic process will carry serious consequences. Speed without care is just recklessness.
Now is the time to develop policies, plan resource allocations, and make sure that the human element is never outsourced.
📽️ MSAB hosted panel on AI/LLM usage in #DigitalForensics at Techno Security East 2026.
Panel participants: Adam Firman, Heather Charpentier, & me.
Thank you all who came in and made the event standing room only.
Watch the panel here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kaVPCXROdw
🎙️ Digital Forensics Now sits down with Heather Barnhart — DFIR Curriculum Lead at SANS, 20+ years in the field, high-profile cases.
She and her team built a framework for when and how to use AI in DFIR. Worth reading.
Watch: https://youtu.be/bTHIw1ob4i4
Framework: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/heather-barnhart-cellebrite_ai-dfir-digitalforensics-ugcPost-7463670252950847488-b7s-
Day #2 at Techno Security 2026.
⛱️ Digital Forensics Open-source tool lab completed!
⛱️ Awesome talk on LLMs by Josh Hickman.
⛱️ Lots of cool vendors in the hall.
⛱️ Night events coming up!
🌞 A new Digital Forensics Now Podcast is out!
We had the honor of talking with Heather Barnhart from the SANS Institute on her AI Investigative Framework, how it can frame our thinking around LLMs, and when to use these technologies responsibly in our #DigitalForensics work.
Watch the podcast in the link below or listen on any major podcasting platform.
LAVA v0.13.0 is out 🔥
New in this release:
📄 PDF export for chat conversations
🌍 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇵🇹 new language translations
🖼️ JXL image rendering
⚡ Artifact menu performance improvements
Big thanks to the contributors!
👉 https://github.com/leapps-org/LAVA-releases/releases/tag/v0.13.0
LEAPPs.org just shipped some updates worth knowing about.
Biggest one: a live Artifact Browser at LEAPPs.org/artifacts — search and filter every artifact supported across iLEAPP, ALEAPP, RLEAPP, and VLEAPP in one place. Pulls straight from the source code.
Also: skeleton loading states, theme-aware charts, nav cleanup, and a handful of bug fixes.
🇮🇹 A huge thank you to Alessandro Farina for contributing an Italian translation to our open-source language resources repository for the LEAPPs!
This kind of community contribution is exactly what makes open source so powerful — one person's effort makes the project better for everyone.
👉 https://github.com/leapps-org/leapps-language-resources
We'd love to keep growing! If you speak Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Dutch, Korean, or any other language, we'd be thrilled to have your contribution.
Alexis Brignoni 
