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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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Preface

Event Logs - an introduction


When an operating system works, a lot of events take place in the system. The range of these events is very large and a majority of them can be registered in the system. To register events on the system, there is a powerful mechanism called Event Logging. It presents a standard centralized way, which the operating system and applications use to record important information coming from software and hardware. An event can be something that occurred in the system or in some application, and it is necessary to notify the user. Information about every event should be recorded.

Events are collected and stored by the Event Logging Service. This keeps events from different sources in event logs. Event logs provide chronological information, which allows us to determie problems in the system environment and security and tracks users' activities and the usage of system resources. However, the kind of data that will be actually recorded in an event log is dependent on system...