Systems and methods for digital forensic triage

A method for forensic triage comprising:

• coupling, communicatively, a computer and a mobile device, wherein the computer comprises one or more processors conductively coupled to one or more memory modules and the mobile device comprises one or more mobile processors conductively coupled to one or more mobile memory modules and one or more communication modules, and machine readable instructions stored on the one or more mobile memory modules of the mobile device;
• booting the computer with the machine readable instructions stored on the one or more mobile memory modules of the mobile device;
• receiving a search data set with the one or more mobile processors of the mobile device, wherein the search data set comprises a keyword list that comprises a plurality of keywords of interest, a hash list that comprises a plurality of hashes that correspond to output from a cryptographic hash function, and a search list that comprises a plurality of identifiers that each correspond to an instance of a system resource;
• executing, automatically with the one or more processors, the one or more mobile processors, or both, the machine readable instructions stored on the one or more mobile memory modules of the mobile device to search the one or memory modules of the computer in a read only mode for triage data that corresponds to the search data set;
• coupling, communicatively, the mobile device and a cloud computing device with a cellular network;
• and
• transmitting the triage data via the one or more communication modules of the mobile device over the cellular network.