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Big Data Forensics: Learning Hadoop Investigations

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Big Data Forensics: Learning Hadoop Investigations
Aug, 2015 | 264 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Big Data Forensics – Learning Hadoop Investigations
Big Data Forensics – Learning Hadoop Investigations
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Starting Out with Forensic Investigations and Big Data
Starting Out with Forensic Investigations and Big Data
An overview of computer forensics
What is Big Data?
Big Data forensics
Summary
2
Understanding Hadoop Internals and Architecture
Understanding Hadoop Internals and Architecture
The Hadoop architecture
Hadoop data analysis tools
Managing files in Hadoop
The Hadoop forensic evidence ecosystem
Running Hadoop
Summary
3
Identifying Big Data Evidence
Identifying Big Data Evidence
Identifying evidence
Locating sources of data
The chain of custody documentation
Summary
4
Collecting Hadoop Distributed File System Data
Collecting Hadoop Distributed File System Data
Forensically collecting a cluster system
Physical versus remote collections
HDFS collections through the host operating system
The Hadoop shell command collection
Collection via Sqoop
Other HDFS collection approaches
Summary
5
Collecting Hadoop Application Data
Collecting Hadoop Application Data
Application collection approaches
Validating application collections
Collecting Hive evidence
Collecting HBase evidence
Collecting other Hadoop application data and non-Hadoop data
Summary
6
Performing Hadoop Distributed File System Analysis
Performing Hadoop Distributed File System Analysis
The forensic analysis process
Analysis preparation
Analysis
Summary
7
Analyzing Hadoop Application Data
Analyzing Hadoop Application Data
Preparing the analysis environment
Pre-analysis steps
Analyzing data
Summary
8
Presenting Forensic Findings
Presenting Forensic Findings
Types of reports
Developing the report
Testimony and other presentations
Summary
Index
Index

Credits

Author

Joe Sremack

Reviewers

Tristen Cooper

Mark Kerzner

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Veena Pagare

Acquisition Editor

Nikhil Karkal

Content Development Editor

Gaurav Sharma

Technical Editor

Dhiraj Chandanshive

Copy Editor

Janbal Dharmaraj

Project Coordinator

Bijal Patel

Proofreader

Safis Editing

Indexer

Priya Sane

Graphics

Abhinash Sahu

Production Coordinator

Komal Ramchandani

Cover Work

Komal Ramchandani

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