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Digital Forensics and Incident Response

By : Gerard Johansen
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Digital Forensics and Incident Response

By: Gerard Johansen

Overview of this book

Digital Forensics and Incident Response will guide you through the entire spectrum of tasks associated with incident response, starting with preparatory activities associated with creating an incident response plan and creating a digital forensics capability within your own organization. You will then begin a detailed examination of digital forensic techniques including acquiring evidence, examining volatile memory, hard drive assessment, and network-based evidence. You will also explore the role that threat intelligence plays in the incident response process. Finally, a detailed section on preparing reports will help you prepare a written report for use either internally or in a courtroom. By the end of the book, you will have mastered forensic techniques and incident response and you will have a solid foundation on which to increase your ability to investigate such incidents in your organization.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


Not every incident may dictate the need to obtain an image from a potentially compromised hard drive or other volume. Regardless, incident response analysts should be familiar with and able to perform this function when called upon. The evidence found on a hard drive may be critical to determine a sequence of events or to obtain actual files that can aid in determining the root cause. Finally, as with any process in a forensic discipline, imaging should be conducted in a systematic manner in which all steps are followed and properly documented. This will ensure that any evidence obtained will be sound and admissible in a courtroom. The next chapter will discuss examining network based evidence to what network activity is associated with an incident.