About Byte Forensics

Digital Forensics Company Serving Central California

At Byte Forensics, we utilize our expertise in digital forensics and experience in law enforcement to assist organizations and individuals with their data recovery and analysis needs. Established in 2012, our firm serves clients in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties.  If you are outside these areas, please contact us for service to/from other areas.

Our Mission

To use forensically sound principles to ensure our customers have actionable data

Our Core Values

  • Professionalism
  • Expertise
  • Communication
  • Reliability

Meet Our Team

Each member of our team has served in the law enforcement community for more than 27 years. For more than half that period of time, we have specialized in digital forensics. We started doing this 6 years before the first Apple iPhone was sold in 2007!  In addition, we continue to teach advanced cell phone forensic techniques to organizations within the law enforcement and private sectors--something we have done for more than a decade.

Perry Kuhl

Our company operates under the leadership of Perry Kuhl. He has more than 16 years of experience in extracting and analyzing data from mobile devices.

John Lehr

John Lehr has more than 17 years of digital forensics experience, particularly with computers. He has expertise in extracting evidence and utilizing multiple programming languages to get at information not supported by commercial tools.