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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

The Single-node enterprise


As mentioned in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Computer Forensics Using FTK, to conduct a remote acquisition through the network, you need a product in the enterprise version, such as the AD of AccessData Enterprise.

However, a very interesting feature of FTK forensics is that it allows this remote acquisition limited to a single agent called Single-node enterprise. To use this feature, perform the following steps:

  1. Click on Tools and select Push Agents.

  2. Insert the IP address or hostname of the machine that you want to acquire and click on Add.

  3. Click on OK.

  4. Insert the credentials information of the remote machine or of your active directory structure and click on Add.

  5. Click on OK to start the deploy agent process.

You may also run the agent manually. It is located in the path C:\Program Files\AccessData\Forensic Toolkit\5.0\bin\Agent.

Once an agent is distributed to the remote machine, you can connect this device and perform a pre-analysis or data acquisition by performing...