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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

Preface

Digital Forensics and Incident Response – Second Edition provides an overview of the various topics surrounding the various technical and operational aspects of incident response and digital forensics. This will start with an examination of the proactive actions to take to ensure that an organization is ready for an incident. Next, the integration of digital forensic concepts and techniques and how they relate to incident response is addressed. Moving from concepts to actual techniques, you will be shown how to acquire evidence from a variety of sources including disks, memory, and networks. You will then be guided through examining those sources of evidence for indicators of compromise or attack. Next, you will examine the role of reporting your findings and how to configure reports for the various entities that require insight into an incident. To round out the skill set, the roles of malware analysis, threat intelligence, and threat hunting are discussed. By the end of this book, you will have a solid foundation in the forensic techniques and methodologies of incident response, as well as the experience required to bring these techniques into your own organization to better prepare for a potential security incident.