Alexis Brignoni — Digital Forensics
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Alexis Brignoni
Alexis Brignoni
Certified Digital Forensics Examiner
Creator of LEAPPs · Podcast Co-Host · Python for DFIR

Digital Forensics with 15+ years in the field. Mobile forensics specialist. Building open-source DFIR tools since 2019. Python for DFIR. Native Spanish speaker.

“Tool reports are not the data. The data is the data. Validate everything that matters.”

Credentials

Education — B.S. in Computer Science, Antillean Adventist University; M.B.A. in Management of Information Systems, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico

CISSP — ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional. Badges on Credly

SANS Institute — FOR 585 Advanced Smartphone Forensics, FOR 498 Battlefield Data Acquisition, Netwars DFIR Champion, recurring DFIR Summit speaker

IACIS — Instructor; authored the Android portion of the Mobile Device Forensics course and the data-structure content of the Advanced Mobile Device Forensics course

Recognition — Extraordinary Visiting Scholar, FASTA University — Mar del Plata, Argentina

Judge — DFIR + AI 2026 Challenge, a vendor-agnostic initiative on GenAI in investigations

What I Do

Podcast — Co-host of Digital Forensics Now — Podcast · YouTube Live

LEAPPs — Creator of the open-source DFIR platform for iOS, Android, vehicle, legal-return, desktop & image/video forensics; integrated into Autopsy, Paraben, Atrio, Evanole & Mobasi. leapps.org/releases

DFIR Python Study Group — Founder & facilitator; teaching examiners to read and write Python. Session playlist

Blog — Research & notes at leapps.org/blog

Opinions are mine only, are subject to change, and do not represent my employer or anyone else.

Jump to: LEAPPs · Papers · Talks · Links

🌋 LAVA — LEAPPs Artifact Viewer Application

LAVA is a modern reporting and visualization tool for the LEAPPs family of digital forensics parsers (iLEAPP, ALEAPP, etc.). It provides faster, efficient reporting of LEAPPs’ parsed data.

Video explanation & demo: youtube.com/watch?v=17TQn7IsM4E

How to make LAVA compliant artifacts: youtube.com/watch?v=qTgZUh4GPxk

Download: leapps.org/releases

📱 iLEAPP — iOS Logs Events and Plist Parser

A python based framework to quickly triage iOS full file system extractions and unencrypted iTunes backups. A community project.

Get it: leapps.org/releases

Demo: cellebrite.com — Getting Started

🤖 ALEAPP — Android Logs Events and Protobuf Parser

Shares the same codebase as iLEAPP but focused on Android forensic artifacts.

Get it: leapps.org/releases

17-min presentation: youtu.be/Wb35VKHfrgc

📂 RLEAPP — Returns Events Logs And Properties Parser

Takes web service legal returns, as well as user-initiated archives, and parses them for easy review.

Get it: leapps.org/releases

🚗 VLEAPP — Vehicle Logs Events And Properties Parser

Takes extractions from cars and parses them for interesting artifacts.

Get it: leapps.org/releases

Demo: cellebrite.com — What’s new with xLEAPP?

🖥️ DLEAPP — Desktop Logs, Events and Protobuf Parser

Parses desktop application artifacts (Electron, Chromium and friends), plus any artifact that doesn’t fit the platform-specific LEAPPs.

Get it: leapps.org/releases

🖼️ GLEAPP — Graphics, Logs, Examination, Automated Processing, Parsing

Triage and analysis for large sets of images and video. Ingests folders, full file system extractions and disk images, hashes and de-duplicates the media, reads metadata, pulls video key frames, matches known-hash lists, and opens a local review gallery. Written by Heather Charpentier.

Get it: leapps.org/releases

⚙️ Batch LEAPP — Run any LEAPP across a folder of extractions

Point it at a directory and it finds every extraction inside, runs the matching LEAPP against each one in parallel, and builds a single report index linking every result, with SHA-256 hashing and a manifest for your case file.

Get it: leapps.org/releases

🎓 Cited 77+ times in academic research — view on Google Scholar ↗
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