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Digital Forensics and Incident Response - Second Edition

By : Gerard Johansen
Book Image

Digital Forensics and Incident Response - Second Edition

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)
1
Section 1: Foundations of Incident Response and Digital Forensics
5
Section 2: Evidence Acquisition
9
Section 3: Analyzing Evidence
15
Section 4: Specialist Topics
Appendix

Leveraging Threat Intelligence

One area of incident response that has had a significant impact on an organization's ability to respond to cyberattacks is the use of cyber threat intelligence or, simply, threat intelligence. The term cyber threat intelligence covers a wide range of information, data points, and techniques that allow analysts to identify attack types in their network, adequately respond to them, and prepare for future attacks. To be able to properly leverage this capability, information security analysts should have a solid foundation of the various terminologies, methodologies, and tools that can be utilized in conjunction with threat intelligence. If analysts are able to utilize this data, they will be in a better position to take proactive security measures and, in the event of a security incident, be more efficient in their response.

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