Conferences
Top digital forensic conferences in 2026
Check this list of top 80 most prominent events in digital forensics in 2026 and beyond. Look up the dates, locations and links for the info to help you prioritize and schedule your visits!
Company news
2025. Year in Review
As we welcome 2026, it’s time to look back at everything the Atola team achieved in 2025. This was a year of product breakthroughs, customer engagement, team growth, and new ways in which we support the digital forensics community. From major firmware releases and a record number of trainings, to an exciting Product Hunt milestone and dozens of international conferences and meetings, 2025 was one of the most dynamic years in Atola’s history. Here is what made it special. Product Highlights of 2025 This year brought several key updates across our product line with features shaped directly by customer feedback, interviews, and hands-on sessions in forensic labs worldwide. Atola TaskForce Read more…
Atola TaskForce
TaskForce 2025.11 update: ZFS support + LDAP authentication
The new firmware update is fire! TaskForce now offers system-wide support for the ZFS file system and LDAP integration for centralized user authentication. Let’s dive deeper into details about these impressive features. Diagnose, browse, and image devices with ZFS partitions TaskForce now fully supports drives and image files with the ZFS file system, which can be found on servers, network-attached storage appliances, and Linux-based devices. Support includes diagnostics (File systems stage), imaging, partition browsing and more. The RAID autodetection module now applies its algorithms to identify and reassemble unknown RAID configurations with ZFS partitions. The full list of file systems, supported by TaskForce, now looks like this: NTFS, ext4/3/2, XFS, Read more…
Atola Insight Forensic
Logical imaging in Insight Forensic 5.7
Yeah, this is huge! Insight now has on board the powerful Logical imaging module with highly customizable filters. Let’s take a close look at the feature that could save you hours of time and terabytes of storage space! What logical imaging has to offer Want to know what’s under the hood? Built-in include and exclude filters L01 format for target image file with optional compression Up to 3 parallel logical imaging sessions with pause/resume option Support for all popular device types and file systems What exactly does it do? Logical imaging creates a forensically sound target image in L01 format with only those partitions, folders or files that match your Read more…
Atola TaskForce
TaskForce 2025.4 update — iSCSI support, new RAID features, Hex Viewer
Whoa, look what we’ve got! The TaskForce 2025.4 firmware update is here, and it’s packed with useful new features! Whether you’re dealing with remote drives, analyzing sector data or rebuilding tricky RAIDs, this update has something for you. Here’s our top picks: iSCSI support for imaging remote drives New built-in HEX Viewer Smarter RAID autodetection with support for missing Synology NAS drives Let’s take a closer look at these and other new capabilities introduced in this update. Image remote drives via iSCSI TaskForce now supports imaging remote drives connected via iSCSI. This is especially useful when: A drive is soldered to the motherboard (as in many ultrabooks or embedded systems) Read more…
Company news
2024. Year in Review
Welcome to 2025! As we look ahead to new opportunities and continue to innovate, let’s take a moment to reflect on the milestones of 2024. We’ve made significant strides in enhancing both the TaskForce and Insight Forensic platforms with five software updates over the year. We also achieved a record number of conference attendances and presentations, kept our team strong, and even welcomed a new member. As we step into 2025, we’re excited to share our upcoming products and innovations! But first, let’s take a look back at the key moments of 2024. Atola TaskForce 1 & 2 software updates Since the launch of TaskForce 2, it has gained a Read more…
Atola Insight Forensic
Insight Forensic 5.6 – Now with Btrfs and LVM support
Yay! A new software update for Insight Forensic with the Btrfs and LVM support is already available for download! Our engineers also made some tweaks and tune-ups, so Insight Forensic now images up to 60% faster to compressed E01 files. Let’s look at what’s under the hood in this release! Btrfs and LVM support Insight Forensic 5.6 can identify and manage the Btrfs file system, along with Logical Volume Manager (LVM) that are widely used on Linux-based operating systems. This includes diagnostics, imaging, file recovery, locate sectors, and all other modules. In Insight’s user interface, LVM’s volume groups and logical volumes are shown as containers with nested partitions: Faster imaging Read more…
Atola TaskForce
TaskForce 2024.9 update – Templates for target files
It’s finally here! No more boring naming routines when creating target image files. With the newest TaskForce firmware update, use highly customizable and flexible templates instead. Set up a template once, and then create complex subfolder paths and file names with a couple of clicks, according to your internal naming conventions. Read on to see how this long-awaited feature works. Say, you’re imaging your evidence device to a file on a network server or storage drive, connected to the TaskForce. Before, it was time-consuming to enter a path and name for each file individually, not to mention repeating case details, such as case number, investigator name, or location. And if Read more…
Atola TaskForce 2
E01 vs AFF4: Which image format is faster?
How to spend less time clearing the backlog? And which forensic file format to use for the maximum acquisition speed? Those questions are not easy to answer. But OK, challenge accepted! Let’s measure and find out! If you’re into spoilers, jump to the “Final Results” part. If not, read on. And if you want to dive deeper into AFF4, the history behind its creation, its compression and hashing methods, as well as its advantages over other forensic file formats, check out this episode of our “Plug, Image, Repeat” newsletter! Setting things up How can we compare the productivity of two different file formats? Let’s design our experiment. We’ll need our Read more…
Atola TaskForce
Image Synology NAS RAIDs with TaskForce 2024.6
At last! The newest version of TaskForce firmware introduces an improved RAID module with support for Synology NAS systems, Btrfs, and LVM (Logical Volume Manager), along with other top-shelf features such as the ability to group ports in Express mode and assign different imaging settings for each group. Also, we’ve added built-in user hints and an offline help system to ease your learning curve and provide instant advice. Let’s take a closer look at the main improvements and tweaks we’ve prepared for you in the new TaskForce update! Reassemble Synology NAS RAIDs automatically TaskForce forensic imagers now offer system-wide support for Synology Network Attached Storage, including SHR RAID management system, Read more…
