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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)

Introduction

We would all like our cases to be one hundred percent perfect all the time, but unfortunately things do go wrong sometimes. Whether its because of a technical fault with a product you're using, a mistake made by an investigator, a faulty dataset in the first place, or some kind of legislative issue encountered when a case goes to court, it is all too common to come up against obstacles in your investigations.

In this chapter, we highlight some of the most common things that can go wrong with popular forensic suites and how to fix them. We will then take a look at what you can do when processes fail, and when you come up against legislative or jurisdictional challenges.

Finally, we will provide you with a short guide to taking your first steps in digital forensics, and recommend some advanced further reading - if you haven't been put off yet!

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