Imaging an NVMe drive
Atola TaskForce

Atola TaskForce 2018.12 release is out!

Welcome to the December release of Atola TaskForce! In this firmware version you will enjoy: NVMe support: imaging of NVMe drives using M.2 extension module Imaging of all sectors with data: skip empty sectors and image data only, one partition at a time Improved interface: clickable and editable elements are now easily recognizable and other features and improvements. NVMe support We are pleased to announce NVMe support in TaskForce! NVMe is the latest and greatest technology in the world of storage devices. NVMe drives achieve unprecedented speeds, which has made them very popular devices for laptops, desktop and corporate computers alike. NVMe drives can now be imaged with the help of our Read more…

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Conferences

Best 30+ forensic conferences in 2019

The new list of DFIR 2023 events is here: Top digital forensic conferences in 2023 The events at which Atola Technology or our partners will be exhibiting are marked with an asterisk (*). last updated October 7, 2019 Forensic events 2019 Conference Date Location Region Registration fee CyberTech Israel January 28 – 30 Tel Aviv, Israel Middle East $810 Forensics Asia Expo January 29 – 30 Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Asia Pacific GBP 650 NSA Winter Legislative & Technology Conference February 9 – 12 Washington D.C. North America $570 22nd European Police Congress February 19 – 20 Berlin, Germany Europe €895 CHIA Conference February 26 – March 1 Las Vegas, NV Read more…

Atola TaskForce

Imaging an evidence drive to 5 targets

Atola TaskForce allows imaging to up to 5 targets at a time. The targets may include E01 or RAW (.img, .dd) file on a network server target drive plugged into one of 18 TaskForce ports To start an imaging session that includes 5 targets: 1) Click Image icon in the left-side menu 2) Select source and target devices. To create a target file, click Select file icon in the target drive menu and click Continue button. 3) In Select image file, open the folder on the server where you want the file to be created and click the Plus icon. 4) In Create image file pop-up window, type in a Read more…

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Company news

Atola is growing again!

We are again looking to extend our team of engineers! A new Hardware Engineer will join our Hardware team with the ever-increasing amount of work assembling units and developing new hardware solutions. We would like to extend and enhance our existing QA team and its skills set with a new QA Automation Engineer. Finally, we look to find a Software Engineer with strong knowledge of modern programming languages and frameworks to help us develop the new great features for Atola TaskForce and Atola Insight Forensic. We look forward to greeting the new reinforcement to our team who would be enthusiastic, curious and gracious, skilful and hard-working. Atola provides a friendly and stable working Read more…

Atola TaskForce

Finding reports in TaskForce

TaskForce automatically creates reports for every single action applied to each drive connected to it. The system also allows browsing through all cases and reports, without corresponding devices being connected to the unit. The reports are listed and can be easily retrieved in different parts of TaskForce software. 1. Via case page All reports related to the case are listed at the bottom of the case page. Scroll down and turn pages to view all the reports, sort them by date or by title, use the search bar to look for specific reports by their titles. To open a report, click the respective line. 2. Via View reports If you need Read more…

Atola TaskForce

Release of Atola TaskForce 2018.8 is here!

We have just released version 2018.8 of Atola TaskForce software. This release includes over a hundred of new features and bug fixes. Among them are some advanced custom settings. For organizations that need to ensure that imaging is always performed with special settings, we have made it possible to create a special preset, which can also be exported from one TaskForce device and imported to another one. Create custom settings: Click Image icon in the left-side menu and select source and target devices Click the Imaging preset management icon in the right bottom part of the window Select Create option Type in the name of the preset and click Create To adjust Read more…

Atola Insight Forensic

Atola Insight Forensic 4.11 with APFS support

We have just released version 4.11 of Atola Insight Forensic software. This edition includes APFS support in Imaging, File Recovery and Diagnostics, as well as extended Artifact search functionality and other great features! APFS Atola Insight now supports logical imaging of APFS partitions. To start the imaging, select All sectors with data in imaging settings and click Start imaging. Once the imaging is done, you can see the partition and file structure on the target: Go to File Recovery category in the left-side menu Click the partition you want to have a closer look at. Should it be encrypted, unlock it with a known password or recovery key. Inside the Read more…

Finding artifacts
Atola TaskForce

Atola TaskForce 2018.1.3 – Accessing password-protected servers

We are launching version 2018.1.3 of Atola TaskForce. This release includes access to password-protected servers. It allows saving image files on such servers, imaging or calculating hash of the files located there, etc. To create an image file on a password-protected server: 1) Click Image button in the left-side menu 2) Select the source device 3) Click SELECT FILE in FILE section of the target device menu and click Continue. 4) In the file dialog, click the server from the list. If the server does not appear in the list, click Refresh icon to search for all available directories. If the server still does not appear in the list, click Read more…

Atola TaskForce

Imaging a drive to two targets with post-hashing

Atola TaskForce’s imaging functionality provides many adjustable settings to help forensic examiners follow the guidelines set by their organizations as well as common-sense evidence handling routines. When you need to create two images of a source drive and verify that both images are identical to the source drive, you will need to calculate the hashes of both targets after imaging. To optimize the process, post-hashing of both target devices is easily configured in imaging settings: 1) Click Image button in the left-side menu 2) Select Source and Target devices, which will redirect you to the page with the summary of current imaging settings. In the default settings, hashing of source drive during Read more…