Cellebrite Inseyets vs Hayabusa

Cellebrite Inseyets is a digital forensics suite for accessing, extracting, and analyzing digital evidence. It combines capabilities from Premium, UFED, Physical Analyzer including Reader, Cloud, Commander, and Cellebrite Autonomy. Cellebrite says the suite supports current Android and iOS devices and full file system extractions, including encrypted content. Streamline processes supported devices from extraction to UFDR; Quick View previews devices before processing, and Triage applies customizable criteria to flag relevant devices. Autonomy automates multiple evidence-processing tasks on a computing unit. Guardian integrates with UFED and Physical Analyzer, and UFED can upload extractions to Guardian automatically. The product is presented for forensic examiners and investigators, including law enforcement and private-sector teams handling investigations, insider threat response, or compliance reviews. Pricing is available on request. A trial for existing license holders covers Inseyets PA v10.x decoding and analysis, but not extraction or other advanced capabilities. A Cellebrite Max dongle is required; full use requires a network connection, though an offline configuration is available.

Hayabusa is a free, open-source tool for Windows event log forensics and threat hunting. It processes EVTX logs from one host or thousands into CSV, JSON or JSONL timelines. Analysis features include computer and event ID metrics, logon summaries, keyword pivoting, HTML summary reports and MITRE ATT&CK mapping. It supports the Sigma specification, including v2 correlation rules; the project describes its curated detection rules as numbering over 4,000. The project says its multithreaded Rust implementation can deliver up to a 5x speed improvement and describes Rust as memory-safe. Hayabusa can run live on one system, process collected logs offline or hunt across endpoints through the Velociraptor Hayabusa artifact. Results can be imported into Elastic Stack, Timesketch and Timeline Explorer, while JSON can be analyzed with jq. Special Windows live-response packages bundle the program with encoded rules and configuration files to reduce files written to the system and help avoid antivirus false positives on YAML rule files. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, but no Linux ARM MUSL binary is provided because it does not run properly. The software uses AGPLv3; detection rules use DRL 1.1.