Go Back From Breach to Lab: How to Realize Secure Forensic Collection with Owl IRD​

When an endpoint is compromised, incident responders race the clock to salvage critical evidence without reinfecting clean environments or breaking chain of custody. But traditional methods — ad hoc “air gaps,” external drives, and risky network connections — force teams into uncomfortable tradeoffs between speed and safety. ​

In this session, Owl Cyber Defense will introduce Owl IRD, the first pocket-sized protocol filtering diode purpose-built for incident response and digital forensics. We’ll show how Owl IRD’s hardware‑enforced, one‑way USB transfer and protocol-aware filtering give IR and forensics teams a standardized, defensible way to move evidence from compromised endpoints into trusted analysis environments.​

What you’ll learn:​

• How Owl IRD enables hardware‑enforced, one‑way USB evidence transfer​
• Ways to standardize field‑to‑lab workflows and protect forensic integrity with Owl IRD​
• Where Owl IRD fits alongside existing diodes and IR/forensics tools​