Heather Barnhart | Source | DFIR Curriculum Lead, Senior Instructor at SANS Institute

With more than 20 years of experience with forensics acquisitions, examinations, advanced exploitation, manual decoding, application reverse engineering, SQL queries, scripting, professional training, and report writing on electronic media, Heather Barnhart is a true expert in digital forensics. Heather has worked on high-stress and high-profile cases, investigating everything from child exploitation and homicides to Osama Bin Laden's media. She has helped law enforcement, consulting firms, and the federal government extract and manually decode artifacts used in solving investigations around the world. Heather began working in digital forensics in 2002 and has been primarily focused on mobile forensics since 2010 - there's hardly a device or platform she hasn't researched or examined or a commercial tool she hasn't used.

Currently, she serves as Senior Director of Community Engagement at Cellebrite. She is also building an engaged, educated community of DFIR (Digital Forensics and Incident Response) professionals, working as the DFIR Curriculum Lead, Senior Instructor at the SANS Institute.

In her recent work, she was the Lead Author for the FOR585: Smartphone Forensic Analysis In-Depth course, co-authored best-seller “Practical Mobile Forensics,” and served as Technical Editor of “Learning Android Forensics” by Pack't Publishing and SQLite Forensics by Paul Sanderson.