BlackLight, for those not already familiar with it, quickly analyzes computer volumes and mobile devices. It sheds light on user actions and now even includes analysis of memory images. BlackLight allows for easy searching, filtering and otherwise sifting through large data sets. It can logically acquire Android and iPhone/iPad devices, runs on Windows and Mac OS X, and can analyze data from all four major platforms within one interface.
BlackLight 2016 R2 features numerous improvements to make casework easier, including the following:
- Improved Offline Maps - improved offline maps, based on OpenStreetMap
- Additional Email Parsing and Analysis - multiple Outlook formats and more
- New Data Ingestion User Interface - easier and more intuitive to add evidence to a case
- Tear-Off ‘File Content Viewer’ - simultaneously view multiple copies of the ‘File Content Viewer’
- Secondary Column Sorting - add a secondary sort by Shift-clicking a second column header
- Column Reordering - easily customize which columns are displayed, and in what order
- File Entropy - available as a sortable column for display in the 'Browser' and 'File Filter' views, also available as an individual file filter
- Updated 'Media' view - allows for more options in sorting through visual media files (OS thumbs, pictures, videos, or all combined)
- Improved Exporting of Contacts Data to Tab-Delimited and CSV Files - all fields of contact data are now included in exports
- Search Results Begin Displaying Before Search Is Complete - helps aid decisions about whether to allow the search to play out, or whether to pause and revise search criteria
