Gain the skills to confidently acquire, analyze, and present digital evidence in modern investigations. Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader*
Key Features
- Understand the digital forensic investigative process, from evidence collection to court testimony
- Explore real-world digital forensic techniques involving incident response and artifact analysis
- Perform hands-on digital forensics using real-world data from various operating systems
- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Book Description
With technology deeply ingrained in our daily lives, everyone leaves some form of a digital footprint or trace, making digital forensics an absolute necessity in all modern investigations. Written by an investigator and expert witness with more than a decade of experience in digital forensic analysis and criminal investigations, this book walks you through the entire digital forensics process chronologically from start to finish. Throughout the book, you'll gain an in-depth understanding of how to leverage digital forensics using practical techniques to analyze artifacts across the most popular operating systems. You'll also find out how to acquire online account data during cyber investigations, recover deleted data, overcome encryption, and scale efforts within a networked environment. With the help of hands-on examples, you'll learn to use proven techniques and best practices to collect, digitally acquire, analyze, and report acquired evidence in a way that's highly effective, easy to understand, and admissible in the court of law. By the end of this book, you will be able to identify and analyze digital evidence to draw accurate conclusions on what was left behind by a computer or device user so they may discover the truth.
What you will learn
- Grasp basic digital forensic concepts, terminology, and lab setup
- Explore proper physical evidence handling, triage, and collection
- Analyze computers, mobiles devices, and online accounts efficiently
- Scale analysis efforts within a networked environment
- Discover techniques involving keyword searching, regex, and the use of hash sets
- Find out how to overcome deleted data, encryption, and anti-forensics
- Employ memory analysis methods to find artifacts not stored elsewhere
- Examine effective and ethical reporting practices and court testimony
Who this book is for
This book is for beginners or students interested in the field of digital forensics, as well as individuals already working in the private or public sector domain as part of an existing cybersecurity or criminal investigations team looking to add a digital forensics component. Whether you're new to the profession wanting to learn real-world investigative analysis techniques or you're actively working in digital forensics, DFIR, and threat hunting wishing to expand upon your current skill set - this book is for you.
