Your tools don't testify. You do.
Validated4n6 helps examiners move beyond push-button forensics: validate the process, verify the result, and walk into court knowing exactly what the data shows.
Built for the examiner, not the marketing department
Everything on this site comes from real casework: what works, what breaks, and how to tell the difference.
Trends & Analysis
Emerging methods, tools, and artifacts in the mobile forensics landscape.
Articles →Open-Source Tools
Community tools for acquisition, parsing, location analysis, and decoding.
Toolkit →Validation Methods
Test devices, known datasets, and repeatable processes that hold up under cross.
Learn how →From the blog
Making the Case: How to Win Command Staff Support for Digital Forensics
A practitioner's framework for showing decision makers the risk of under-investing in digital forensics, and the return on investing in people, training, and tools.
Read article → ValidationVerify, Then Trust: A Smarter Approach to Mobile Forensics
Why "trust but verify" gets the order wrong, and a practical framework for validating your tools and verifying every significant finding before it goes in a report.
Read article → CourtroomDigital Evidence Trial Preparation Guide for New Examiners
Documentation, legal standards, technical prep, and testimony habits every examiner should have in place before taking the stand.
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Ricky Johnson
Major, Criminal Investigations Division, Richland County Sheriff's Department. FBI National Academy Session 295 graduate.
With the Richland County Sheriff's Department since 2007, and dedicated to the forensic acquisition and analysis of mobile devices since 2014. He has testified as an expert witness in mobile and digital forensic analysis in more than 10 South Carolina trials, nearly all homicides or other major crimes. Validated4n6 is where that experience gets shared.
“Criminals will lie. The data does not.” Featured in Who's On The Move ↗
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