Mark Garnett, Senior Vice President of Client Services at Consilio, is the global head of the Digital Forensic and Expert Services team. He is responsible for managing forensic teams across the U.S., U.K., Germany and APAC regions. Garnett specializes in managing teams responsible for seizing and analyzing digital evidence, data recovery, electronic evidence preservation, electronic discovery and conducting other computer-related investigations. He is a qualified investigator, electronic discovery and forensic technology practitioner with 14 years’ experience as a Detective in the Queensland Police Service and over 20 years specialist electronic discovery and forensic experience, six of which were with a “Big Four” forensic practice in Australia.
The recent pandemic accelerated a trend towards remote work that has been ongoing for years and, as a result, accelerated usage of cloud-based collaboration platforms and their impact on the field of digital forensics. This article will discuss the trends and challenges associated with these platforms as they pertain to cloud-based data collection and its use in forensic investigations.
