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Windows Forensics Cookbook

By : Scar de Courcier, Oleg Skulkin
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Windows Forensics Cookbook

By: Scar de Courcier, Oleg Skulkin

Overview of this book

Windows Forensics Cookbook provides recipes to overcome forensic challenges and helps you carry out effective investigations easily on a Windows platform. You will begin with a refresher on digital forensics and evidence acquisition, which will help you to understand the challenges faced while acquiring evidence from Windows systems. Next you will learn to acquire Windows memory data and analyze Windows systems with modern forensic tools. We also cover some more in-depth elements of forensic analysis, such as how to analyze data from Windows system artifacts, parse data from the most commonly-used web browsers and email services, and effectively report on digital forensic investigations. You will see how Windows 10 is different from previous versions and how you can overcome the specific challenges it brings. Finally, you will learn to troubleshoot issues that arise while performing digital forensic investigations. By the end of the book, you will be able to carry out forensics investigations efficiently.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Troubleshooting in commercial tools

Digital forensics is a very complex field. This means that you are likely to face different problems while working on your cases. Problems may be of different natures: you could fail to install a tool because your workstation doesn't have additional third-party software (usually it's included in the package by the developers); you could fail to process the data source properly because it's damaged or the format or file system is unsupported; you could fail to parse some forensic artifacts because their format has been changed and isn't supported by your piece of software yet, and so on.

Thanks to the developers of commercial forensic software, including EnCase, FTK, AXIOM, Evidence Center, Intella, and so on, you can solve almost any problem quickly and easily (most of the time) with the help of their customer support services...