Heather Barnhart is the Senior Director of Forensic Research at Cellebrite. At the SANS Institute, Heather the DFIR Curriculum Lead, faculty fellow instructor, author, and the course lead for both FOR585: Smartphone Forensic Analysis In-Depth and FOR500: Windows Forensic Analysis. As if that isn't a full enough schedule, Heather also maintains www.smarterforensics.com, where she blogs and hosts work from the digital forensics community. She is the co-author of Practical Mobile Forensics (1st - 4th editions), currently a best seller from Pack't Publishing, and the technical editor for Learning Android Forensics from Pack't Publishing and SQLite Forensics by Paul Sanderson. Heather is featured in Women Know Cyber as one of the 100 fascination females fighting cybercrime. Over the past 23 years, Heather has worked on high-stress and high-profile cases, investigating everything from child exploitation, homicides to Osama Bin Laden's media. She has helped law enforcement, consulting firms, and the federal government extract and manually decode artifacts used in solving investigations around the world. Heather began working in digital forensics in 2002 and has been primarily focused on mobile forensics since 2010 - there's hardly a device or platform she hasn't researched or examined or a commercial tool she hasn't used. Heather is passionate about digital forensics because she loves the challenge. "This field moves so quickly. It is literally impossible to get bored,"she says. "If you find yourself bored, branch into another realm of digital forensics. The possibilities are endless and so is the fun! I love digging for artifacts and solving the puzzle. I feel like I learn something new every day."