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Practical Windows Forensics

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Practical Windows Forensics

Overview of this book

Over the last few years, the wave of the cybercrime has risen rapidly. We have witnessed many major attacks on the governmental, military, financial, and media sectors. Tracking all these attacks and crimes requires a deep understanding of operating system operations, how to extract evident data from digital evidence, and the best usage of the digital forensic tools and techniques. Regardless of your level of experience in the field of information security in general, this book will fully introduce you to digital forensics. It will provide you with the knowledge needed to assemble different types of evidence effectively, and walk you through the various stages of the analysis process. We start by discussing the principles of the digital forensics process and move on to show you the approaches that are used to conduct analysis. We will then study various tools to perform live analysis, and go through different techniques to analyze volatile and non-volatile data.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Incident Response CDs

Due to the needed speed in the Incident Response (IR) process, the usage of incident response CDs can save precious time. IR CDs usually are Linux distributions. These distributions contain many incident response and digital forensic tools, which aim to boot mainly from the target system to acquire different types of possible evidence without the need to disconnect the hard drive.

This is designed to leave the least traces on the target system, so it boots with write protection enabled by default to all the connected hard drives. This gives the user the ability to grant the write access to the destination hard drive only. It is better to not connect to the destination hard drive until the system boots from the incident response CD. Of course, booting from the IR CD means that the system under investigation is down, and you will start the machine and boot from the CD. No running system memory is available in this case.

IR CDs also have the ability to acquire the memory...