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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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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

Network-based data collection

Nowadays, it is difficult enough to find computers that don't have any network connections. This is almost impossible in the enterprise environment. Network connections reflect the interaction of computers with the outer world. Also, the network is the main source of threats. Today, the Internet is a very aggressive environment. Threats of various levels from spam to APT often penetrate computers via networks.

So, in almost every incident, computers have network activities that are related to the incident. There are a lot of examples of such events from receiving e-mails with malicious attachments and visits of a malicious URL. However, sometimes to have only host-based evidence to get a whole picture about an incident is not enough. In such cases, network-based evidence can help a lot.

Network forensics is a vast topic. We won't cover all the issues. In this chapter, we just want to look at this as an additional source of evidence. There is a lot of...

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