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Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Digital Forensics and Incident Response - Second Edition

By : Gerard Johansen
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Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Digital Forensics and Incident Response

4.6 (5)
By: Gerard Johansen

Overview of this book

An understanding of how digital forensics integrates with the overall response to cybersecurity incidents is key to securing your organization's infrastructure from attacks. This updated second edition will help you perform cutting-edge digital forensic activities and incident response. After focusing on the fundamentals of incident response that are critical to any information security team, you’ll move on to exploring the incident response framework. From understanding its importance to creating a swift and effective response to security incidents, the book will guide you with the help of useful examples. You’ll later get up to speed with digital forensic techniques, from acquiring evidence and examining volatile memory through to hard drive examination and network-based evidence. As you progress, you’ll discover the role that threat intelligence plays in the incident response process. You’ll also learn how to prepare an incident response report that documents the findings of your analysis. Finally, in addition to various incident response activities, the book will address malware analysis, and demonstrate how you can proactively use your digital forensic skills in threat hunting. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to efficiently investigate and report unwanted security breaches and incidents in your organization.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Section 1: Foundations of Incident Response and Digital Forensics
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Section 2: Evidence Acquisition
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Section 3: Analyzing Evidence
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Section 4: Specialist Topics
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Appendix

Incident tracking

Many organizations utilize an IT trouble ticket-tracking system for incidents such as ServiceNow and Jira. While tracking incidents in this manner works when there are few incidents and there is no need to automate incident response processes. Organizations that have a more robust incident response capability may need to utilize an incident response platform to track and assist with the proper execution and documentation of the incident response process.

Commercial solutions for tracking cybersecurity incidents generally fall into the category of Security Orchestration Automation Response (SOAR) platforms. Some of these solutions can integrate with other toolsets so that a good deal of the process is automated. They may also incorporate playbooks into the platform so that incident response teams have immediate access and can work through the process, all the...

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