Inside F3: Building Community And Sharing Knowledge In Digital Forensics
Forensic Focus20 Okt 2025

Inside F3: Building Community And Sharing Knowledge In Digital Forensics

Gareth Davies, Chairman of F3 (First Forensic Forum), joins the Forensic Focus Podcast to explore how a grassroots, vendor-neutral community has helped shape digital forensics in the UK for three decades. He traces F3's origins in the 1990s, when affordable training and tool-agnostic knowledge-sharing were scarce, and explains why the forum still focuses on byte-level, lab-ready techniques over sales pitches.

Looking ahead, Gareth previews F3's 2025 conference in Warwickshire (Nov 18–20), the not-for-profit pricing model, and upcoming trainings on UAVs, software-defined radio, implants/biomed devices, smartwatch and vehicle forensics, and video authentication/deepfakes. He also discusses international growth (including interest in an Australian chapter) and an open call for volunteers to help run events and keep training affordable.

#DigitalForensics #DFIR #ForensicsTraining #IncidentResponse #VehicleForensics #CryberCrime #DigitalEvidence #DigitalInvestigtion #DigitalEvidence

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00:00 Introducing Gareth Davies

01:09 What is F3?

03:01 Gareth's Journey into Forensics

05:35 PhD and Research Work

06:54 Current Role and Responsibilities

09:08 Interesting Cases and Projects

12:27 Involvement with F3

14:41 F3's Global Reach and Community

20:03 Challenges and Future of F3

22:39 Personal Experiences and Networking

24:47 Becoming Chairman of F3

30:50 Upcoming F3 Event Details

35:28 Digital Forensics Teaching and Research

37:30 Upcoming F3 Training

42:38 Challenges in Digital Forensics

45:28 The Importance of Community and Resources

55:04 Personal Interests and Hobbies

57:46 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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📝 Show Notes F3 – First Forensic Forum website - https://f3.org.uk

F3 – First Forensic Forum LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/f3.org.uk/

Spyder Forensics - https://www.spyderforensics.com

Bénédictine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9n%C3%A9dictine

APOLLO - https://github.com/mac4n6/APOLLO

DFRWS - https://dfrws.org

GCK File Signature Table - https://filesig.search.org

NIST - https://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/digital-forensics

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