The US Department of Justice has awarded grants for the development of new tools that speed up the process of examining hard drives in the wake of a cyberattack or other types of criminal cases. A one-terabyte hard drive can take law enforcement more than 16 hours to image, but new technology developed by Grier Forensics speeds up that process to about three hours. FireEye’s Mandiant says speed of imaging a disk isn’t always a factor in an incident response investigation, but the priority is to conduct large-scale analysis of live systems.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/analytics/doj-r-d-agency-awards-grants-for-speedier-digital-forensics