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  3. SANS Digital Forensics Blog Reader's Survey Results
Brad Garnett

SANS Digital Forensics Blog Reader's Survey Results

October 28, 2010

Thank you to all of our readers that took the time to complete our blog reader's survey. Your participation was very much appreciated and we will use this information to better serve our our readers and the forensic community. Our blog has been successful because of you and it is important that we share the results with you. Not every question was answered by everyone that took the survey, so we had a tangible 111 responses (thank you).

Here are the results:

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Under "Other (please specify)", there were a lot of responses for the SANS Institute website, so thank you for including that with your response.

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Digital Forensic Case Leads is published weekly to share tools both new and old, interesting reads, news items, and more. If you have suggestions or newsworthy items for the Digital Forensic Case Leads posts, please e-mail them to caseleads-at-sans.org. Would you like to see any changes to Case Leads? Please list any comments and recommendations that you have for the Digital Forensic Case Leads here.

From the feedback to this question, our readers enjoy the content that DF Case Leads delivers weekly and felt the current format and frequency was sufficient. Remember, send those stories and digital forensic nuggets to caseleads-at-sans.org.

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Under "Other (please specify)", the common theme was RSS feeds (e.g. Google Reader) and LinkedIn.

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"Digital Forensic Tools & How-To's " were off the charts! Under "Other (please specify)", malware forensics, live incident response, encryption, remote forensic tools, and case examples were the most mentioned.

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Under "Other (please specify)", email, Yahoo! Groups, and phone were specified.

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