Issue 56 examines practical challenges facing digital-forensics practitioners, including expanding cloud attack surfaces, emerging EU governance for space systems, and the regulatory maturation reflected in NIS2. It further evaluates applied HUMINT–OSINT intelligence models for financial-fraud disruption, the operational value of standardisation in evidential reliability, and structured, legally resilient approaches to transnational fraudulent-website removal within contemporary investigative and organisational contexts today.

Issue 55 analyses emerging investigative challenges across virtual environments, IoT ecosystems and national infrastructure. Articles examine metaverse-driven evidential complexity, practitioner techniques for visualising disparate IoT/IIoT data, and operational insights from live-fire defence cyber exercises. Additional features explore evolving digital-age investigative constraints and the personal safety risks faced by forensic practitioners handling sensitive data, hostile content and adversarial online environments.

Issue 54 analyses practitioner challenges in APT investigations across large commercial networks, the contemporary relevance of historical intelligence dilemmas, and operational compliance demands in regulated forensic environments. Additional features examine professionalisation within the security-testing sector and explore nuclear-sector cybersecurity leadership, highlighting governance, assurance, and investigative-readiness considerations essential to complex organisational, regulatory and adversarial contexts.