Worth a visit

Fortworth Stockyards

Fortworth Texas Stockyards

They have these in the sidwalks. Somebody needs to polish them up.

Fort Worth visit, the Stockyards

Ok, so I am wandering the Stock Yards and checking out the area. A cowboy is wandering around with this Longhorn. He let us have photo opportunities. Everyone was having a great time. I can not even imagine getting on one of these when it is in a bad mood! This fella was very friendly :)

This is a good training conference. You do not have to be law enforcement to join this group. You do need two sponsors from the group. They have a list serve and the training each year is different. There are a lot of talented people in this group. Also, the vendor booths will keep you current on what is new with investigative software and hardware.

Guidance has the "Portable" now. If you have a non-technical user in a remote area, which you have limited band width issues, (otherwise you could simply do this with Enterprise or eDiscovery), you can simply create a job, load it to Portable, and send the Portable device along with a storage drive to the user. A job might be a full image of a computer's hard drive, or it might be set up to collect Word docs only. Source Processor is the magic behind this one.

The user can plug portable into a running Windows machine and simply run the preset collection criteria, or Portable can be used as a bootable thumb drive device, (we have a boot CD too). This allows an operating system to boot and the collection jobs to display in a GIU. No OS concerns. It makes it easy to collect.

The user simply plugs in Portable, plugs in a storage drive, then clicks on a predefined job. It can be a full disk image of all the drives, or the collection of specific items. We were at the High Tech Crime Investigator's conference doing demos.