Cyber Triage
Automated digital forensics and incident response software built by the original creators of The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy, used to quickly triage malware, ransomware, and account-takeover intrusions.
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Cyber Triage is automated digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) software that helps responders answer intrusion questions — what happened, how bad is it, where else did it spread — without requiring deep forensic specialization. It pulls host-based data, EDR telemetry, and SIEM data into a single workflow, then scores collected artifacts as bad, suspicious, good, or unknown so an investigator can immediately see where to focus rather than manually sifting through raw forensic images.
The product is built by Sleuth Kit Labs, the team behind The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy — open-source forensic toolkits used for two decades in law enforcement casework, military investigations, and forensic training programs worldwide. Sleuth Kit Labs spun out of Basis Technology as an independent company in October 2023, led by CEO Brian Carrier, PhD, the original creator of The Sleuth Kit who spent 18 years leading Basis Tech’s digital forensics group. The company is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Cyber Triage’s differentiation comes less from novel technology and more from forensic credibility: its engineering team has been building and maintaining the open-source tools much of the DFIR field trained on for years. The company cites case studies involving a Fortune 100 company, an industrial manufacturer, and a major German bank, though these customers are not independently named.
Innovation Matrix Assessment
Steady incremental product development since spinning out as an independent company in October 2023; not a hyper-funded startup, so growth pace is measured rather than explosive.
The engineering team has maintained The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy for well over a decade, giving the company far more operational and technical continuity than its young corporate shell would suggest on its own.
Occupies a stable, respected niche in DFIR tooling built on long-standing open-source credibility, but lacks the funding announcements or viral growth signals of venture-backed peers.
Automates and accelerates forensic triage work that previously required a specialist DFIR analyst, a meaningful efficiency gain, though the underlying approach (artifact scoring, guided triage) is an incremental rather than category-defining advance.
The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy have two decades of independently verifiable adoption across law enforcement, military, and forensic training programs worldwide, which is strong indirect evidence of the team's forensic competence, even though the named enterprise case studies for Cyber Triage itself are not independently confirmed.
Fast, accurate incident triage remains a core need for any security operations or IR function responding to malware, ransomware, or account-takeover events.
Why CISOs Should Care
Faster, less specialist-dependent incident triage shortens the gap between suspecting a breach and understanding its actual scope, which matters most in the first hours of an incident.
What Makes It Different
Built and maintained by the original creators of The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy, giving it forensic-community credibility that commercial-only DFIR competitors don't have.
The Matrix Verdict
60/100 — INCREMENTAL INNOVATOR
A technically credible DFIR triage tool backed by genuinely deep forensic engineering pedigree. Its track record as an independent company is short since the 2023 spin-out, so business scale and durability are less proven than the underlying technology.
Editorial Note: Claims vs. Verified Findings
The open-source lineage (The Sleuth Kit, Autopsy) and the October 2023 spin-out from Basis Technology are independently verifiable facts. The referenced customer case studies (a 'Fortune 100 company,' a 'major German bank,' etc.) are vendor-published and the customers are not independently named, so treat those specific outcome claims as vendor-sourced.
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