About Atola
Our mission
We build tools that help forensic professionals acquire digital evidence faster and simplify disk management for everyday users.
Who we are
We're a team of dedicated professionals working to support and empower digital forensic practitioners.
Our core values guide everything we do as a company and as people.
Experiments
Experiments help us discover new solutions and build better products.
Sincerity
Trust builds stronger connections and empowers us to speak up.
Simplicity
Complexity distracts. Simplicity keeps us focused on what matters.
These values shape how we work and interact every day:
- Listen first, speak second: We aim to understand before being understood.
- Teamwork comes first: Helping a colleague always takes priority.
- Simple over complex: We prefer solutions that are clear, adaptable, and easy to maintain. Simplicity brings focus.
- Experiment boldly: We welcome initiative and are always open to trying new things.
- Fail-friendly mindset: We back each other up, learn and grow from our mistakes.
- Strength in collaboration: We play to each other's strengths to do our best work.
Our story
Here are our key milestones from more than 20 years of innovation in digital forensics and data recovery.
Atola Technology in numbers
20+ years in business
Privately held company founded in 2003.
8 hardware products
High-performance imagers. Automated data recovery.
25+ team members
80% are software and hardware engineers.
800+ drives in R&D lab
Rigorous QA of imagers on healthy and damaged media.
Core team
Get to know our core team and feel free to follow them on LinkedIn.
Current product line
We are constantly expanding and updating our product line to meet the needs of our customers.
Meet us in person
Whether near or far, we go wherever our customers are. Every conversation helps us build better tools.
Atola practices
These practices reflect our culture and core values and have supported our growth for many years.
Design groups
Major features are designed not only by the product manager, but by a dedicated group within the team. They explore new ideas, challenge assumptions and make the final design decisions.
Feature leadership
Team members can take temporary leadership roles to drive major features. A volunteer lead breaks down work, assembles a cross-functional team, expriments freely, and disbands the team after delivery.
Atola summertime
A four-day workweek during the summer months, designed to help everyone recharge and stay creative.
Hiring together
10+ team members participate in the hiring process. Final decisions are made collectively, and every participants has veto power.
Unlimited sick leave
Take as many sick leave days as needed, no forms or approvals are required. A simple email is enough, included when caring for a sick child.
Onboarding bootcamp
A structured 3-week onboarding process where new hires learn our products, workflows, and DFIR mindset together.
Knowledge sharing
Regular sessions where team members present insights on engineering, HDD/SSD technology, data recovery, or design trends.
Mental support
The company covers mental health sessions with licensed psychologists.
Atola lunch
Five lunches with random teammates during a new hire's first week. Each day, team gathers to draw lots determining who will welcome the newcomer over lunch.
Don't miss out on the good stuff!
Newsletter on LinkedIn
We named it "Plug. Image. Repeat." Every issue shares tips to strengthen your DFIR expertise, evidence acquisition skills, damaged drive handling, and unknown RAID reassembly.
Top digital forensic conferences
Attending conferences is one of the best ways to stay current with DFIR trends, tools, and evolving industry standards. Here is our list of the top events.
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