Hello all! Back again, though not as soon as I had thought. Anyway, today I want to tell those who haven't already heard about the training offered by Brett Shavers. His courses have recently moved to a new home at https://www.patreon.com/DFIRtraining. This is where you will find all his current courses, as well as new courses as they come out. All courses are bundled and available for a monthly subscription.

I reviewed his old WinFE course four years ago. You can read it HERE, although that course is no longer active. I have also had access to his older X-Ways Forensics course and learned a lot from it.

While I haven't taken any of his newest training, the courses I've seen were great. The material itself is very well prepared and presented. The video and audio quality is also good, with items on screen easy to see and understand.

DFIR training is usually very expensive, as we all know. Brett is offering some high quality training at a fraction of the cost of many other courses. I plan to become one of his Patreon supporters soon and experience his newest offerings.

Brett also started a DFIR oriented social network at https://social.dfir.training/. There are currently three groups on the site. One group is for DFIR Book Giveaways. Group members have the opportunity to win DFIR related books on a monthly basis. The other two groups are a SANS FOR 508 study group and a WinFE group.

Kudos to Brett for all he's doing with these sites. I encourage you to support him on his Patreon page and take part in some good DFIR training.

Just in case anyone still stops by this blog, I wanted to post that nominations are now open for the 2017 Forensic 4:cast Awards. Click HERE to go and nominate your favorites. I think the 4:cast Awards are a very good thing for the DFIR community and encourage you to participate. Thanks to the great Lee Whitfield for continuing to run the awards program every year. Your efforts do not go unappreciated.

Regarding my last post way back in July, I was unable to attend ArchC0n 2016 due to illness. I'm really sorry to have missed it, especially since I learned recently that this was the final ArchC0n. Congratulations and thanks to Paul Jaramillo and crew for what was an excellent conference.

Since my retirement, I haven't been especially active in the world of forensics. I did work one case for the local sheriff's office that involved a Raspberry Pi. That was my first Linux related investigation and it was pretty interesting. When I get some time and my thoughts together, I'll try to post about it as it was fun working something different than a Windows case.

Till the next time, take care and don't forget to head over to the Forensic 4:cast website and nominate your favorites for an award.

 Hello Dear Readers. I hav returned to the blogosphere (I hate that term) to remind you of a great security conference coming up. ArchC0n 2016 will be held August 26 at the Hyatt Regency in St. Louis. This will be the third annual ArchC0n and once again it looks like it's going to be a great one. I've attended the previous events and had a great experience with each. I cannot recommend this