Learn Computer Forensics from a veteran investigator and technical trainer and explore how to properly document digital evidence collected

Key Features:

• Investigate the core methods of computer forensics to procure and secure advanced digital evidence skillfully
• Record the digital evidence collected and organize a forensic examination on it
• Perform an assortment of Windows scientific examinations to analyze and overcome complex challenges

Book Description:

Computer Forensics, being a broad topic, involves a variety of skills which will involve seizing electronic evidence, acquiring data from electronic evidence, data analysis, and finally developing a forensic report.

This book will help you to build up the skills you need to work in a highly technical environment. This book's ideal goal is to get you up and running with forensics tools and techniques to successfully investigate crime and corporate misconduct. You will discover ways to collect personal information about an individual from online sources. You will also learn how criminal investigations are performed online while preserving data such as e-mails, images, and videos that may be important to a case. You will further explore networking and understand Network Topologies, IP Addressing, and Network Devices. Finally, you will how to write a proper forensic report, the most exciting portion of the forensic exam process.

By the end of this book, you will have developed a clear understanding of how to acquire, analyze, and present digital evidence, like a proficient computer forensics investigator.

What You Will Learn:

• Explore the investigative process, rules of evidence, legal process, and ethical guidelines
• Understand the difference between sectors, clusters, volumes, and file slack
• Validate forensic equipment, computer program, and examination methods
• Create and validate forensically sterile media
• Gain the ability to draw conclusions based on the exam discoveries
• Record discoveries utilizing the technically correct terminology
• Discover the limitations and guidelines for RAM Capture and its tools
• Explore timeline analysis, media analysis, string searches, and recovery of deleted data

Who this book is for:

This book is for IT beginners, students, or an investigator in the public or private sector. This book will also help IT professionals who are new to incident response and digital forensics and are looking at choosing cybersecurity as their career. Individuals planning to pass the Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE) certification will also find this book useful.

Get up and running with collecting evidence using forensics best practices to present your findings in judicial or administrative proceedings

Key Features

• Learn the core techniques of computer forensics to acquire and secure digital evidence skillfully
• Conduct a digital forensic examination and document the digital evidence collected
• Analyze security systems and overcome complex challenges with a variety of forensic investigations

Book Description

A computer forensics investigator must possess a variety of skills, including the ability to answer legal questions, gather and document evidence, and prepare for an investigation. This book will help you get up and running with using digital forensic tools and techniques to investigate cybercrimes successfully.

Starting with an overview of forensics and all the open source and commercial tools needed to get the job done, you'll learn core forensic practices for searching databases and analyzing data over networks, personal devices, and web applications. You'll then learn how to acquire valuable information from different places, such as filesystems, e-mails, browser histories, and search queries, and capture data remotely. As you advance, this book will guide you through implementing forensic techniques on multiple platforms, such as Windows, Linux, and macOS, to demonstrate how to recover valuable information as evidence. Finally, you'll get to grips with presenting your findings efficiently in judicial or administrative proceedings.

By the end of this book, you'll have developed a clear understanding of how to acquire, analyze, and present digital evidence like a proficient computer forensics investigator.

What you will learn

• Understand investigative processes, the rules of evidence, and ethical guidelines
• Recognize and document different types of computer hardware
• Understand the boot process covering BIOS, UEFI, and the boot sequence
• Validate forensic hardware and software
• Discover the locations of common Windows artifacts
• Document your findings using technically correct terminology

Who this book is for

If you're an IT beginner, student, or an investigator in the public or private sector this book is for you.This book will also help professionals and investigators who are new to incident response and digital forensics and interested in making a career in the cybersecurity domain.