Briefing Room

Keyword Search now runs straight from Shield's touchscreen. Pick a source drive, tell it what you're looking for, and decide where it should look. You can type your own keywords, select o...

Two questions about authentication and photo handling came up recently, including whether I use fingerprints and whether the system preserves separate original and working copies. User au...

Shadow and Shield is a 100% U.S. owned company. All Shadow and Shield software is written in the United States by U.S. citizens. The founder and developer at the time of this blog post al...

Today, I'm launching the SHIELD-399, the portable digital forensics platform I've spent more than a year building. I built it to bring evidence acquisition, triage, media preparation, and...

Drive Imager has two ways to handle an acquisition that will not fit on one destination. For a single destination in a supported Native Go segmented E01 or AFF4 workflow, imaging pauses w...

I built Drive Imager around four output formats: E01, Ex01, AFF4, and raw DD. I have my native Go imager written from the ground up which handles E01, Ex01, and AFF4 but you can also choo...

USB ports on the Shield-399 have pre-assigned roles. Source ports are write protected for evidence while destination ports can receive extracted files, reports, and formatting. When a dri...

Connect an external keyboard to bypass the onscreen keyboard. Every text field on the touchscreen brings up an on-screen keyboard. It's consistent across every dialog with debounce protec...

The touchscreen was one of the things that I didn't know if I would be able to get working when I started. It was well outside of my experience and knowledge, and it took more persistence...

You operate the Shield-399 two ways: via the touchscreen built directly into the unit or via the network dashboard through a locally connected computer, tablet, or phone. A touchscreen is...

People have asked what the hardware is that the Shield 399 is running, so here it is... The host is an ASUS NUC 15 Pro running an Intel Core Ultra 7 255H (16 cores) with 96 GB of RAM and...

The Shield-399 launches at the end of this month. I've been building it for over a year now, and it still feels a little strange to write that sentence. So what is it? It's a portable di...