AI in digital forensics: 68% of DFIR professionals now use AI in investigative workflows

A Police1 article drawing on the 2026 State of Enterprise DFIR Report finds that 68 per cent of digital forensics and incident response professionals now use AI in their investigative workflows. The piece argues that AI excels at managing scale — large datasets and multiple-device cases — while interpretation should remain with the investigator, noting that the risk of missed context exists with or without AI when caseloads are high.

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