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Practical Windows Forensics

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Practical Windows Forensics

Overview of this book

Over the last few years, the wave of the cybercrime has risen rapidly. We have witnessed many major attacks on the governmental, military, financial, and media sectors. Tracking all these attacks and crimes requires a deep understanding of operating system operations, how to extract evident data from digital evidence, and the best usage of the digital forensic tools and techniques. Regardless of your level of experience in the field of information security in general, this book will fully introduce you to digital forensics. It will provide you with the knowledge needed to assemble different types of evidence effectively, and walk you through the various stages of the analysis process. We start by discussing the principles of the digital forensics process and move on to show you the approaches that are used to conduct analysis. We will then study various tools to perform live analysis, and go through different techniques to analyze volatile and non-volatile data.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Practical Windows Forensics
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About the Authors
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Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we discussed what we should have in the Jump Bag to handle a computer incident, and what kind of skills the members of the IR team require.

Also, we took a look at live response and collected Volatile and Nonvolatile information from a live system. We also discussed different tools to collect information. We also discussed when we should to use a live response approach as an alternative to traditional forensics.

In the following chapter, we will consider the issues related to Volatile data collection.