Tools & Software

Digital forensics has an unusually strong open-source bench — disk imagers, timeline builders, memory analyzers, and network capture tools that professionals use daily and beginners can learn for free. This collection maps that landscape honestly, tool by tool. We describe capabilities as the tools' own documentation describes them, note real limitations and learning curves, and never invent features or benchmark claims. When a free tool is genuinely the standard, we say so; when a paid suite earns its license fee, we say that too.