About Us
Digital Forensics Solutions was founded in 2005 by Daryl Pfeif and Golden G. Richard III. We are based in Orleans Parish and serve the entire Gulf South Region and beyond. Scalpel, the file carving software tool, which is available for free download on our site is in use by members of the forensics community worldwide.
Daryl Pfeif brings 15 years of experience working with computers, multimedia, and communications technologies to Digital Forensics Solutions. As a lead consultant and project manager for Fortune 500 companies (such as Microsoft, AT&T, and Sony) and state and federal agencies, she honed her ability to quickly and clearly define the scope of each project to achieve the client's ultimate goals and to expedite each plan accordingly.
Golden G. Richard III is an internationally recognized expert in digital forensics and has been involved with computers for over 30 years. He holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of New Orleans and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University and is a GIAC-certified digital forensics investigator. Dr. Richard is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Orleans, where he teaches courses in computer security, digital forensics and reverse engineering. He directs the Network Security Lab (NSSAL) and the Greater New Orleans Center for Information Assurance (GNOCIA) at the University of New Orleans. He is also a member of the U.S. Secret Service Electronic Crime Task Force and the American Academy of Forensics Sciences (AAFS). He is actively involved in research and tool development for the digital forensics community and is the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS). He is the author of numerous technical articles and two books on mobile computing, both for McGraw-Hill.
Dr. Richard’s vita is available here.
Lodovico Marziale, Ph.D., Senior Security Researcher
Lodovico Marziale is a Senior Security Researcher at Digital Forensics Solutions, where he conducts forensic investigations, penetration tests, engineers new applications to support security and forensics functions, performs training on incident response handling and digital forensics and conducts research on cutting edge techniques in computer security. He is a GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA) with 7 years of computer security experience. He holds a B.S. in Finance and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science, with a concentration in computer security, from the University of New Orleans (UNO). Lodovico is a member of USENIX, ACM, and the Louisiana Technology Council, and sits on the GIAC Advisory Board. His research interests include network and application security, digital forensics, operating system internals, and parallel programming. He is active in the computer security research community and has numerous peer-reviewed publications, most emphasizing innovative, practical tools for computer security and digital forensics. In the course of pursuing these interests, and in his work history, Lodovico has designed and implemented several data recovery applications, worked inside the Linux kernel to add forensics facilities, researched methods for correlating data outputs across multiple security tools, implemented a network-stack-level exfiltration detection engine, and successfully implemented numerous other projects in the computer security space.
Joe T. Sylve, M.S., Senior Security Researcher
Joe Sylve is a Senior Security Researcher at Digital Forensics Solutions, where he conducts forensic investigations, penetration tests, engineers new applications to support security and forensics functions, performs training on incident response handling and digital forensics, and conducts research on cutting edge techniques in computer security. He is a GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA) with 5 years of computer security experience. He holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Computer Science, with a concentration in computer security, from the University of New Orleans. His research interests include mobile forensics, embedded filesystem forensics, and operating system internals. He has designed and implemented both forensic and privacy tools for the Android mobile platform, and has published some of the first work on Android live-forensics.