Lodrina Cherne

Lodrina became a SANS instructor to help instill solid foundational skills, practices, and techniques in students to advance their understanding of Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), as well as to advance the overall DFIR profession. Lodrina finds it particularly rewarding that even one footnote or a single mention among the hundreds of pages covered in a week-long course can help a student someday break a case.

Lodrina's goal as an instructor is to help students look at an investigation from multiple angles by using different tools to find as many facts as possible. She wants her students to understand the mindset needed and the possible blind spots to be explored when investigating a case. "Even when Windows upgrades and new artifacts are present, we will work to understand the different investigative techniques needed," she explains.