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How to Video Page – 2026

Sybil Mayard — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:30:43 +0000

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Learn Digital Forensics At Your Own Pace

ADF Solutions has created short "how-to" videos which are designed to teach key concepts in short, easy-to-learn formats. If you are new to ADF Software and would like a personal demo of any of our products, please request a demo and we'll be delighted to walk you through our software and discuss how we speed digital forensics investigations and help reduce forensic backlogs. These free videos are created and frequently updated by our digital forensic specialists and trainers that come to us with experience in investigations and law enforcement.

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How to connect to an iOS device for Screencasting

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How to get started with Bluetooth Capture

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ADF Solutions Evaluation Steps: A Quick Video Walkthrough

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Screen Recording, Screenshots, and Screen Mirroring on Android

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Backing Up and Scanning iOS Devices

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Archiving Phone Backups

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Digital Forensic Screenshots with OCR for Mobile Devices

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How to Create Search Profiles with Mobile Device Investigator

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Create an iOS Forensic Backup with DEI PRO

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How to Create a Forensic Backup of an Android Device with MDI

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Creating a Search Profile in DEI PRO

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How to Start an Android Forensic Scan with MDI

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Screen Recording, Screenshots, and Screen Mirroring on Android

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Introducing Mobile Device Investigator

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How to connect to an iOS device for Screencasting

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Learn to Create an Android Forensic Backup with DEI PRO

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Scan iOS Devices with Mobile Device Investigator

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Mobile Preview: Fast Mobile Phone Forensic Triage

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Dropbox Forensics for iOS Cloud Storage Capture

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Regular Expressions that Speed Digital Investigations

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Best Mobile Device Investigator Settings for Evidence Collection

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Using Digital Forensic Screen Capture on Mobile Devices

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How to get started with Bluetooth Capture

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Creating a Search Profile in DEI PRO

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Live Mac Forensics: Round Out Your On-Scene Triage

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Collect RAM on a Live Computer

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Find Anti-Forensic and Dark Web Traces with ADF Triage Software

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macOS Forensics: Live Scan Macs with T2 or M1 chips

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The Power of ADF Computer Triage

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How-To Image on a Boot and Live Scan

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How to Boot Scan a Mac with APFS and FileVault 2

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How to Install Digital Evidence Investigator and DEI PRO Offline

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Create an iOS Forensic Backup with DEI PRO

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Using Stealth Mode: Counterterrorism Operations

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Digital Forensic Boot Scan a Mac with APFS

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Collect Web Credentials: Quick Saved Credentials Search Profile

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Fighting In-House Backlog with Triage

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Collecting Files by Targeted Folders to Speed a Forensic Investigation

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How to Install Digital Evidence Investigator and DEI PRO Online

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Learn Computer Forensics: Collect Saved Web Credentials in the Field

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Learn to Create an Android Forensic Backup with DEI PRO

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How to Scan a non OS Drive or Partition

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Regular Expressions that Speed Digital Investigations

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Transferring Data With the ADF Migration Tool

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Obtaining Your ADF Evaluation License

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ICAC Investigations with ADF Tools

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How to Have a Digital Forensic Triage Process that Works Field to Lab

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Remove an iTunes Password set in ADF Digital Forensics Tools

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Entity Extraction, Keywords and Classification of Images and Videos (UPDATED JULY 2022)

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Creating a Collection Key without Search Profiles

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Explaining the Settings Page

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How ADF Tools Identify Files

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How to Scan Multiple Devices

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Import and Export Digital Forensic Search Profiles

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Investigate: Files Referenced by Artifact Records

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How to Prepare Multiple Evidence Collection Keys (UPDATED August 2022)

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How to Prepare a Digital Evidence Collection Key (CKY) (UPDATED August 2022)

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How to Prepare a Sanitized CSAM Report (UPDATED August 2022)

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Define Files to Collect Digital Evidence (Updated in 2022)

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Using PhotoDNA in Digital Forensics Investigations (Updated in 2022)

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Archiving with the Standalone Viewer

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How to Hide Default Search Profiles in ADF Digital Forensic Software

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Prepare Evidence Collection Keys for Investigation (Updated in 2022)

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Top 5 Law Enforcement Webinars

Brittany Roberts — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Check out our law top law enforcement webinars.

All-In-One Field Forensics: Mobile and Computer

ADF digital forensic tools are the fastest way to empower field agents to start solving digital investigations on-scene. Put in the hands of frontline agents, tools such as Digital Evidence Investigator PRO, let officers gather intel and evidence from phones, tablets, computers, and electronic devices immediately.

Preview mobile devices in seconds
Screenshot evidence on mobile devices with OCR text extraction and annotation
Search Profiles instantly scan for specific evidence (CSAM, Human Trafficking, Fraud, Crypto, etc.)
Automatic image, video, and keyword analysis flags and tags evidence
Full analysis with multi-lingual translation (230 languages) and entity extraction
Share reports with fellow investigators or prosecutors

Watch: All-in-One Field Forensics

ICAC Triage Made Easy

Today’s access to technology and the Internet is unfortunately making it easier for cyber criminals to commit crimes that can often go undetected. It is the job of ICAC Task Forces, high tech crime units and police leaders to find the most effective ways to fight cybercrime and protect children.

Internet Crimes Against Children investigators must work quickly with Internet Service Providers and the Cybertips they receive to locate suspect devices and then determine if they need to confiscate devices. Fast, on-scene field decisions are a key factor in the decisions to take a suspect into custody and quickly identify and protect victims.

Taking information from an ISP, CyberTip, or intelligence report and then utilizing it on-scene has never been easier than it is right now. Learn how to take the uniqueness found in an investigation and put it to work for you, resulting in sound decisions, targeted / relevant results, and data to keep the investigation going, and helping you reduce the backlog in your lab.

Leverage Project VIC hashsets
Built in and custom CSAM Search Profiles
On-scene keyword matching
Automatically classify images and videos with AI/ML and PhotoDNA
Leverage Anti-Human Trafficking Search Profiles

Watch: ICAC Triage Made Easy

Intro to Mobile and Computer Triage

ADF digital forensic tools are the fastest way to triage and start solving digital investigations on-scene. Put in the hands of investigators, tools such as Digital Evidence Investigator PRO, let officers gather intel and evidence from phones, tablets, computers, and electronic devices immediately.

Preview mobile devices in seconds
Screenshot evidence on mobile devices with OCR text extraction and annotation
Automatic image, video, and keyword analysis flags and tags evidence
Customize your investigation with case-specific keywords and hashes
Link files to artifacts and user interaction
Search Profiles instantly scan for specific evidence (CSAM, Human Trafficking, Fraud, Crypto, etc.)
Share reports with fellow investigators or prosecutors

Watch: Intro to Mobile & Computer Triage

Best Practices Webinar: ADF Search Profiles

Find digital evidence fast with ADF’s rapid search capabilities. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to use ADF’s out-of-the-box and Custom Search Profiles to quickly collect files and artifacts.

Join Digital Forensic Specialist and Trainer Rich Frawley to learn:

When to use ADF built-in Search Profiles
How to customize Search Profiles to fit your investigation
How to easily import and export Search Profiles to focus your team’s searches
How to use Search Profiles across task force units

Using ADF Search Profiles for digital forensic triage and investigations helps law enforcement improve the effectiveness of search warrants and streamlines both field and lab investigations.

Watch: ADF Search Profiles Best Practices Webinar

All-In-One Mobile Forensics: ICAC and CSAM Investigations

Mobile Device Investigator (MDI), the easy-to-use field forensic tool that’s easy to learn and deploy.

Learn how to make the most out of your Mobile investigations starting on scene:

Move through the correct steps to save time on scene
Preview and focus on multimedia fully functional analysis available
Screenshot data that would normally take days to get to
Document the data you are making your decisions on
Make a logical acquisition of the most important items
Incorporate CAID, Project Vic, Cybertip images, custom keywords

Watch All-In-One Mobile Forensics

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What is Computer Triage? (Updated in 2022)

Richard T. Frawley — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

As digital technology becomes more advanced, the potential for its criminal application is magnified. This can result in overwhelming amounts of digital data for law enforcement to inspect in a limited timeframe. Although opportunities to find digital evidence on a perpetrator’s or victim’s computer may be numerous, the time it takes to search through such vast quantities of data contributes to the issue of growing forensic backlogs.

The Computer Forensics Challenge

Combing through a computer for evidence is an arduous task on its own. However, many cases involve multiple computers to inspect, which makes it difficult for investigators to know which one will provide the most useful evidence. And it’s not just the forensic examiners who face an upward battle.

Collecting evidence in the field can sometimes require technical skills that take time and extensive training to develop. Inspecting all of the computers in a lab is extremely time-consuming, especially if there is a forensic backlog to contend with. Transporting computers out of the field comes with the risk of losing sensitive evidence (such as RAM / volatile memory) during the journey to the lab, or as they sit in a lab waiting to be examined. Add that to the challenge of delivering evidence to prosecutors in an appropriate format, and you can see why digital forensics is a complex field.

The Solution: Computer Triage

Computer ownership and use has skyrocketed in the last few decades, challenging law enforcement to adapt alongside these digital changes. Techniques and programs are used to assist in the collection and analysis of digital evidence. Digital triage allows investigators to develop a plan for collecting the most useful evidence. Depending on the situation and an agency’s policies and procedures, this plan can be carried out on-scene or back in the lab.

How Does Forensic Triage Work?

In situations where there are multiple computers and few trained forensic specialists, looking at indicators that suggest a computer may hold valuable evidence, such as browser history and installed software, are useful first steps. Using a forensic triage approach, investigators can prioritize information based on how valuable it is, how much time and effort it will take to analyze it, and how sensitive it is to manipulation. Products like ADF’s Triage-Investigator search through immense amounts of data and retrieve relevant files, artifacts, and user history. The software is easy to use and is deployed on memory sticks, so analysis can quickly be done where and when it makes the most sense for the investigation – typically at the scene of the crime.

Choosing a Product

There are a variety of tools for computer triage on the market. It’s important to determine which aspects of a triage tool are most useful for the investigation at hand. For instance, you may want a tool that allows an investigator or examiner to preview images or videos during a scan so they can start their analysis immediately instead of waiting until a scan is complete. ADF offers three industry-leading products used by law enforcement, military organizations, and corporations worldwide. To find out which one best suits your needs, compare our products.

Our team is passionate about helping to solve crimes quickly and reduce the digital evidence backlog. For more information or assistance, contact us. We’d love to hear from you.

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Virginia Computer Forensics & Digital Investigations Conference

ADF Solutions — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The inaugural conference for Virginia police, sheriffs, prosecutors, digital forensics investigators, and cybercrime specialists was held last week at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. The first-ever CIIFER conference (which stands for Cyber-attacks, Internet Investigations, Forensic Analysis, and Electronic Records) featured training from industry professionals, university professors, and Commonwealth attorneys.

ADF Solutions sponsored this first event of its kind which was kicked off by JMU President Jonathan Alger who welcomed the attendees after an introduction by Robert Kolvoord, Dean of the College of Integrated Science and Engineering (CISE). President Alger talked about the work James Madison is doing to prepare the next generation of cybersecurity professionals with new academic programs that respond to emerging needs and an increased emphasis on interdisciplinary thinking and problem-solving – something that is reinforced with ethical perspectives and reasoning in action in the university’s Cyber Intelligence Certificate.

With training from subject matter experts from the FBI, Homeland Security, NW3C, the Virginia Department of Forensic Science, Alexandria Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, Arlington Police Department, Virginia State Police, George Mason University, and other leaders, the continuing education topics included:

Virtual Currency Investigations
Facebook Best Practices
The State of Digital Forensics
Cellsite Data Best Practices
Geolocation Data & Geofencing
Best Practices for First Responders Handling Digital Evidence
Solving Unusual Forensic Challenges
Ransomware Workshop
Darkweb Investigations
Undercover & CyberInvestigations
Search Warrants for Digital Evidence
Mobile Triage and On-Scene Evidence Collection
Mac Triage and Imaging
Media Exploitation (DOMEX)
How to Get Cloud Evidence to Move Your Investigation Forward

ADF’s conference presentation focused on the power of ADF computer triage to uncover digital evidence for prosecutors and law enforcement. ADF mobile and computer software empowers police investigators, sheriffs and digital forensic experts throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia as well as federal investigators from a wide variety of federal agencies who support cross-functional cybercrime task forces including the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces that operate in Virginia. CIIFER is organized by the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Services Council.

Best 2020 Law Enforcement Conferences

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