Heather Mahalik is the Senior Director of Digital Intelligence at Cellebrite. She advises on strategic digital intelligence operations and educates DFIR professionals on the latest challenges in the space and how Cellebrite helps address them. For more than 19 years, Heather has worked on high-stress and high-profile cases, investigating everything from child exploitation to Osama Bin Laden’s digital media. She has helped law enforcement, eDiscovery firms, and the federal government extract and manually decode artifacts used in solving investigations around the world.

Heather is the co-author of Practical Mobile Forensics, currently a best seller from Pack’t Publishing and serves as a the DFIR Curriculum Lead, Senior Instructor, and author for FOR585: Smartphone Forensic Analysis In-Depth at the SANS Institute.