Surge Collect Provides Reliable Memory Acquisition Across Windows, Linux, and macOS
Summary: Volexity announced Surge Collect, a commercially supported memory acquisition tool for Windows, Linux, and macOS, built by a team it began recruiting three years earlier. The company cites a recent empirical study showing most open source or commercial Windows memory acquisition tools either failed to collect or crashed systems with modern security features enabled, and says Surge Collect is in use by federal and local law enforcement agencies, incident response firms, and branches of the military through its Early Adopters Program.
Bottom line: Investigators relying on free or abandoned acquisition tools risk corrupt memory samples or crashed systems holding volatile evidence, and Volexity states most Windows tools tested failed or crashed under modern security features. The tool's integration with Tanium and Carbon Black targets enterprises whose pre-deployed security products cannot reliably preserve memory state.
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