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Practical Windows Forensics

You're reading from   Practical Windows Forensics Leverage the power of digital forensics for Windows systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783554096
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Foundations and Principles of Digital Forensics FREE CHAPTER 2. Incident Response and Live Analysis 3. Volatile Data Collection 4. Nonvolatile Data Acquisition 5. Timeline 6. Filesystem Analysis and Data Recovery 7. Registry Analysis 8. Event Log Analysis 9. Windows Files 10. Browser and E-mail Investigation 11. Memory Forensics 12. Network Forensics appA. Building a Forensic Analysis Environment appB. Case Study

Chapter 4. Nonvolatile Data Acquisition

In this chapter, we will discuss the acquisition of Hard Disk Drives or HDD. Data acquisition is critical because performing analysis on the original hard drive may cause failure on the only hard drive that contains the data or you may write to that original hard drive by mistake.

So, creating a forensics image from the hard drive must be performed prior to the analysis. The acquisition of the HDD can be either conducted at the incident scene or in the analysis lab, on a live or a powered off system, and over network or locally, as we will see in this chapter.

In a nutshell, we will cover the following topics:

  • Forensic image
  • Incident response CDs
  • Live imaging of a hard drive
  • Linux for the imaging of a hard drive
  • Virtualization in data acquisition
  • Evidence integrity
  • Disk wiping in Linux
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