September Meeting - Josiah Roloff - Digital Forensic Investigations in the Work from Home Era

Speaker: Josiah Roloff, President, Roloff Digital Forensics, LLC

Details: Digital Forensic Investigations in the Work from Home Era: Managing Productivity and Policy Compliance in a Hybrid Workplace

In the era of “flexible” work locations, managing productivity and policy compliance has become complicated. When potential misconduct occurs, chances are good that electronic data exists to support or refute claims. In this interactive discussion, learn about technologies that surround our daily workplace lives and how digital forensics can turn that electronic evidence into an investigative goldmine.

Speaker BIO:

Mr. Roloff is the president and senior digital forensics examiner at Roloff Digital Forensics, LLC, a private digital forensics firm with headquarters in Spokane, Washington.

Mr. Roloff has been working specifically in the field of digital forensics since 2003 and throughout this timeframe has worked on over 1,500 cases for private law firms, federal, state and county defenders’ offices, large and small businesses, human resource departments, educational institutions, private investigators, and all branches of the United States Armed Forces. These cases have included the investigation of electronic evidence in allegations of homicide, kidnapping, election fraud, wire fraud, malpractice, Medicare and Medicaid fraud, sexual assault, solicitation of minors, unauthorized access (hacking), threats against the President, his family and staff, unauthorized systems use, theft of proprietary information, sex trafficking, espionage/terrorism and drug trafficking to name just a few.

As a digital forensics examiner, Mr. Roloff has conducted examinations on thousands of pieces of digital evidence to include: hard drives, compact discs (CDs), digital versatile discs (DVDs), floppy diskettes, thumb drives, flash cards, magnetic tapes, tablet devices, feature cellular phones, subscriber identity module (SIM) cards, personal digital assistants (PDAs), smart phones, call detail records (CDRs), location based data, and many other types of electronic data provided by various service providers.

Mr. Roloff’s educational background includes an associate in applied science degree in network engineering, a bachelor’s degree in program management from Whitworth University, professional certificates in computer forensics from Oregon State University and New Technologies Institute (NTI); he is certified by Guidance Software (now OpenText) as an EnCase Certified Forensic Examiner (EnCE) and by the International Society of Forensic Computer Examiners as a Certified Computer Examiner (CCE). Specific to the field of mobile forensics, Mr. Roloff is certified as a Cellebrite Certified Logical Operator (CCLO), a Cellebrite Certified Physical Analyst (CCPA) and a Cellebrite Certified Mobile Examiner (CCME).

Mr. Roloff frequently lectures on the topic of digital forensics and how it can be applied in the legal system. He has been recognized as a digital forensics, computer forensics and mobile forensics expert witness in United States district courts, United States military courts and many state courts throughout the country.