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Computer Forensics with FTK

By : Fernando Carbone
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Computer Forensics with FTK

By: Fernando Carbone

Overview of this book

<p>With the increase of electronic crimes and the need to constantly audit the proper use of resources, companies need qualified professionals and appropriate tools to carry out these activities. The FTK platform, with the ability to collect and analyze digital evidence quickly and with integrity, is a great solution to help professionals achieve these goals. It is extremely useful for conducting digital investigations, helping you conduct a thorough investigation through a single tool and ensure the integrity of evidence. It is hard to find technical information on this tool and that’s where this book will come in handy, helping professionals perform their activities with greater excellence.</p> <p>This tutorial leads by example, providing you with everything you need to use FTK and the tools included such as FTK Imager, Registry View, and PRTK in order to enhance your Computer Forensics knowledge in an easier and more efficient way.</p> <p>You will be introduced to the background of Computer Forensics, which include the types of digital devices that can be acquired and how to prepare for a new case of investigation. You will become acquainted with the FTK architecture and learn how to leverage its features in order to help you find the evidence as fast as possible. Through this book, you will also learn the memory forensics technique using the memory dump feature of FTK Imager. Furthermore, you will learn how to extract some important information such as process and DLL information, Sockets, and Driver List Open Handles.</p> <p>To conclude your tutorial, you will learn how to extract information from Windows Registry and how to recover passwords from the system and files. You will find this book an invaluable supplement to teach you all the steps required for the completion of investigations on digital media and to generate consistent and irrefutable evidence in court.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Computer Forensics with FTK
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.packtpub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with Computer Forensics Using FTK
Index

Changing the time zone


The correct use of the Time Zone feature is of the utmost importance for computer forensics because it might reflect the wrong MAC time of files contained in the evidence, making a professional use the wrong information in an investigation report.

Based on this, you must configure the time zone to reflect the location where the evidence was acquired. For example, if you conducted the acquisition of a computer that was located in Los Angeles, US, and bring the evidence to Sao Paulo, Brazil, where your lab is situated, you should adjust the time zone to Los Angeles so that the MAC time of files can reflect the actual moment of its modification, alteration, or creation.

The FTK allows you to make that time zone change at the same time that you add a new evidence to the case. Select the time zone of the evidence where it was seized from the drop-down list in the Time Zone field. This is required to add evidence in the case.

Take a look at the following screenshot:

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