SSDs present problems to forensic experts

Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget, 1904

Perhaps you’re familiar with the construction of hard disks and SSDs. However, it may not have occurred to you that the radical differences between a spinning hard disk and the stacks of Flash memories in SSDs would present a problem for forensics experts. At least, it did not occur to me. That’s why I found this article by Mike Sheward on the Infosec Resources site interesting enough to blog it here in the Denali Memory Report. Sheward is a network security engineer for a software-as-a-service provider based in Seattle and a researcher at the InfoSec Institute. He’s also worked for the British government. You might want to take a look.