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AI can help in DFIR, but it cannot replace investigator judgement

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Feed Name: Pen Test Partners Blog

Date Published: 2026-04-21

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: Alex Wallace

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This blog post argues that effective DFIR relies on human investigative judgement and context more than tool proficiency, warning that AI can assist with repetitive tasks but cannot replace nuanced reasoning; it illustrates this with a CTF example where a language model misinterpreted forensic artefacts.

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