Magnet AXIOM and AXIOM Cyber
Magnet Forensics · 2026
Access and status
Cost
Paid
Costs money to buy outright — a book, a licence, a registration.
Status
Current
Current as at the verification date below. Standards and tools both move — confirm at source before you rely on it.
What it is
A commercial digital forensics platform that acquires, processes, and reports on computer, mobile, cloud, and vehicle data in a single case, organised around artefact recovery rather than raw file system browsing. AXIOM Cyber is the variant aimed at corporate incident response, internal investigations, and ediscovery, adding remote endpoint collection.
Who it is for, and when
AXIOM is one of the two or three suites an examiner is most likely to meet in practice, and its strength is breadth in one case file: a phone extraction, a laptop image, and a cloud account acquired under warrant or consent can be searched and timelined together. Artefact coverage for chat applications, browsers, and cloud services is maintained aggressively, which is the main reason firms pay for it rather than assembling open-source equivalents. AXIOM Cyber's remote collection matters when the custodian and the device are in another country.
What it does not cover
Pricing is quote-based — Magnet publishes none — so budget and renewal terms have to be negotiated, and licences are per-examiner. Artefact-driven analysis is a convenience that can become a blind spot: the suite shows you what its parsers know about, so anything outside that coverage needs manual file system work or an open-source parser, and its parsed output should be verified against the underlying database before it goes in a report. It is not a reverse engineering or network forensics tool.
Go to the source
Open at magnetforensics.com (opens in a new tab)https://www.magnetforensics.com/products/magnet-axiom/
Details
- Type
- Tool
- Written for
- Working examinerAdvancedWorking examiner, Advanced
- Publisher
- Magnet Forensics
- Year
- 2026
- Topics
- commercial-suite, mobile, cloud, file-systems, incident-response, reporting, ediscovery
- Checked at source
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