Inside Digital Forensics: Tracing Digital Footprints, Fraud & Data Exfiltration
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How modern forensic investigations uncover hidden evidence across devices, emails, documents, and cloud platforms.
In this episode of The Salient Edge, host David Fisk is joined by Frikkie Viljoen to explore the fast-evolving world of digital forensics, cyber investigations and eDiscovery.
From business email compromise and document falsification to USB data exfiltration, GPS tracking and forensic evidence recovery, this episode unpacks how digital footprints left behind by modern technology can support complex investigations and litigation matters.
Drawing on more than 16 years of technical and forensic experience, Frikkie explains how investigators preserve and extract evidence from laptops, mobile phones, cloud platforms and removable storage devices - while maintaining defensible forensic processes and chain of custody.
The conversation explores the growing sophistication of cyber fraud, including compromised business email accounts, fake banking detail changes, falsified employment documents and manipulated PDFs. The episode also highlights how forensic investigators recover deleted files, trace USB activity, analyse metadata, reconstruct print jobs and identify location data through Wi-Fi and GPS records.
Listeners will gain practical insight into:
- Digital forensics and forensic evidence collection
- Business email compromise investigations
- Cyber fraud and document falsification detection
- USB data theft and insider risk investigations
- Metadata analysis and forensic artefacts
- GPS and Wi-Fi location tracking in investigations
- Cloud, mobile, and laptop forensic challenges
- Defensible collections and chain of custody
- The role of forensic technology in legal and corporate investigations
Whether you work in legal, corporate investigations, cybersecurity, forensic accounting or compliance, this episode provides a practical look at how digital forensic specialists uncover evidence hidden across modern technology ecosystems.
In this episode of The Salient Edge, host David Fisk is joined by Frikkie Viljoen to explore the fast-evolving world of digital forensics, cyber investigations and eDiscovery.
From business email compromise and document falsification to USB data exfiltration, GPS tracking and forensic evidence recovery, this episode unpacks how digital footprints left behind by modern technology can support complex investigations and litigation matters.
Drawing on more than 16 years of technical and forensic experience, Frikkie explains how investigators preserve and extract evidence from laptops, mobile phones, cloud platforms and removable storage devices - while maintaining defensible forensic processes and chain of custody.
The conversation explores the growing sophistication of cyber fraud, including compromised business email accounts, fake banking detail changes, falsified employment documents and manipulated PDFs. The episode also highlights how forensic investigators recover deleted files, trace USB activity, analyse metadata, reconstruct print jobs and identify location data through Wi-Fi and GPS records.
Listeners will gain practical insight into:
- Digital forensics and forensic evidence collection
- Business email compromise investigations
- Cyber fraud and document falsification detection
- USB data theft and insider risk investigations
- Metadata analysis and forensic artefacts
- GPS and Wi-Fi location tracking in investigations
- Cloud, mobile, and laptop forensic challenges
- Defensible collections and chain of custody
- The role of forensic technology in legal and corporate investigations
Whether you work in legal, corporate investigations, cybersecurity, forensic accounting or compliance, this episode provides a practical look at how digital forensic specialists uncover evidence hidden across modern technology ecosystems.
