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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

Threat hunt reporting

Chapter 11, Writing the Incident Report, provided the details necessary for incident responders to properly report on their activities and their findings. Reporting a threat hunt is just as critical, as it affords managers and policymakers insight into the tools, techniques, and processes utilized by the hunt team, as well as providing potential justification of additional tools or modifying the existing processes. The following are some of the key elements of a threat hunt report:

  • Executive summary: This high-level overview of the actions taken, indicators discovered, and if the hunt proved or disproved the hypothesis provides the decision-makers with a short narrative that can be acted upon.
  • Threat hunt plan: The plan, including the threat hunt hypothesis, should be included as part of the threat hunt report. This provides the reader with the various details...