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Practical Digital Forensics

You're reading from   Practical Digital Forensics Get started with the art and science of digital forensics with this practical, hands-on guide!

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785887109
Length 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Richard Boddington Richard Boddington
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Preface 1. The Role of Digital Forensics and Its Environment 2. Hardware and Software Environments FREE CHAPTER 3. The Nature and Special Properties of Digital Evidence 4. Recovering and Preserving Digital Evidence 5. The Need for Enhanced Forensic Tools 6. Selecting and Analyzing Digital Evidence 7. Windows and Other Operating Systems as Sources of Evidence 8. Examining Browsers, E-mails, Messaging Systems, and Mobile Phones 9. Validating the Evidence 10. Empowering Practitioners and Other Stakeholders Index

Chapter 5. The Need for Enhanced Forensic Tools

This chapter highlights the rapidly changing forensic environment, where conventional forensic imaging and indexing of increasingly larger datasets is becoming unviable. It introduces new forensic processes and tools to assist in more sound recovery of evidence and better use of resources. The chapter introduces the advent of disruptive technology that is challenging the established digital forensic response and overreliance on forensic specialists, who are themselves becoming swamped with heavier caseloads and limited ability to process larger and disparate datasets.

The topics specifically covered in this chapter will look at:

  • Emerging problems confronting forensic laboratories and practitioners in recovering evidence from increasingly large and widely dispersed datasets
  • Processes and forensic tools to assist practitioners to deal more effectively with these challenges
  • Empowering non-specialist law enforcement personnel and other stakeholders...
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