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Hands-On Network Forensics

By : Nipun Jaswal
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Hands-On Network Forensics

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By: Nipun Jaswal

Overview of this book

Network forensics is a subset of digital forensics that deals with network attacks and their investigation. In the era of network attacks and malware threat, it’s now more important than ever to have skills to investigate network attacks and vulnerabilities. Hands-On Network Forensics starts with the core concepts within network forensics, including coding, networking, forensics tools, and methodologies for forensic investigations. You’ll then explore the tools used for network forensics, followed by understanding how to apply those tools to a PCAP file and write the accompanying report. In addition to this, you will understand how statistical flow analysis, network enumeration, tunneling and encryption, and malware detection can be used to investigate your network. Towards the end of this book, you will discover how network correlation works and how to bring all the information from different types of network devices together. By the end of this book, you will have gained hands-on experience of performing forensics analysis tasks.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Obtaining the Evidence
4
Section 2: The Key Concepts
8
Section 3: Conducting Network Forensics

Summary

Over the course of this chapter, we learned a lot about 802.11 packets. We covered tools such as airodump-ng, learned about the packet types and subtypes and locating rogue access points using time delta analysis, and tagged parameters and changes in MAC addresses. We looked at a variety of attack types and worked with deauthentication packets.

In the next chapter, we will look at summarizing and automating tools and scripts to perform network forensics quickly.