Cellebrite's newest target: Your IoT-filled home

Smart home devices are quickly proliferating across the the world. Millions of new devices are coming online every year, be it through an Echo or Nest or anything in between.

Each one of these devices in the ever-expanding internet of things produces huge troves of data. That information is increasingly becoming a focal point for Cellebrite, the wildly profitable Israeli firm most famous for its cracking open encrypted iPhones on behalf of law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

A new set of technical updates, commercial webinars and sales pitches from Cellebrite outline the company’s drive into IoT. “Consumer-grade IoT devices are increasing in popularity and scope,” Mati Goldberg, Cellebrite’s head of digital forensics research, said in a recent video. “The devices and the data they collect are becoming an integral part of investigations but they also come with new investigative challenges.”