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Digital Forensics and Incident Response

You're reading from   Digital Forensics and Incident Response Incident response tools and techniques for effective cyber threat response

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803238678
Length 532 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Preface 1. Part 1: Foundations of Incident Response and Digital Forensics
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Incident Response FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Managing Cyber Incidents 4. Chapter 3: Fundamentals of Digital Forensics 5. Chapter 4: Investigation Methodology 6. Part 2: Evidence Acquisition
7. Chapter 5: Collecting Network Evidence 8. Chapter 6: Acquiring Host-Based Evidence 9. Chapter 7: Remote Evidence Collection 10. Chapter 8: Forensic Imaging 11. Part 3: Evidence Analysis
12. Chapter 9: Analyzing Network Evidence 13. Chapter 10: Analyzing System Memory 14. Chapter 11: Analyzing System Storage 15. Chapter 12: Analyzing Log Files 16. Chapter 13: Writing the Incident Report 17. Part 4: Ransomware Incident Response
18. Chapter 14: Ransomware Preparation and Response 19. Chapter 15: Ransomware Investigations 20. Part 5: Threat Intelligence and Hunting
21. Chapter 16: Malware Analysis for Incident Response 22. Chapter 17: Leveraging Threat Intelligence 23. Chapter 18: Threat Hunting 24. Assessments 25. Index 26. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Analyzing System Memory

For a long time, law enforcement and other organizations performing digital forensic tasks associated with incident investigations often relied on methodologies that focused on evidence contained within the hard drive of a machine. Procedures dictated that the system should be powered down and the hard drive removed for imaging. While this methodology and the associated procedures were effective at ensuring the integrity of the evidence, this overlooked the wealth of information that was contained within the Random Access Memory (RAM), or memory for short, of the targeted system. As a result, incident response analysts began to focus a great deal of attention on ensuring that appropriate methods were employed that maintained the integrity of this evidence, as well as giving them a platform from which to obtain information of evidentiary value.

This chapter will focus on the types of evidence that can be located within the memory of a system, the tools and...

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