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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

You're reading from   Digital Forensics with Kali Linux Perform data acquisition, data recovery, network forensics, and malware analysis with Kali Linux 2019.x

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Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838640804
Length 334 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Shiva V. N. Parasram is a cybersecurity and risk consultant with over 19 years of experience and is the executive director of the Computer Forensics and Security Institute (CFSI), which specializes in pentesting, Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), and advanced security training with a global reach. As the only Certified EC-Council Instructor (CEI) in the Caribbean, he has trained thousands and is the founder of the CFSI CyberFence program. Shiva is also the author of three other books from Packt Publishing and has delivered workshops regionally and globally for ISACA, ISC2, universities, and security agencies. He is also a Security Risk Manager Consultant for PTRMS (Canada) positioned within a global financial institution, and a cybersecurity mentor at Springboard (US).
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Preface 1. Section 1: Kali Linux – Not Just for Penetration Testing
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Digital Forensics FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Installing Kali Linux 4. Section 2: Forensic Fundamentals and Best Practices
5. Chapter 3: Understanding Filesystems and Storage Media 6. Chapter 4: Incident Response and Data Acquisition 7. Section 3: Forensic Tools in Kali Linux
8. Chapter 5: Evidence Acquisition and Preservation with dc3dd and Guymager 9. Chapter 6: File Recovery and Data Carving with foremost, Scalpel, and bulk_extractor 10. Chapter 7: Memory Forensics with Volatility 11. Chapter 8: Artifact Analysis 12. Section 4: Automated Digital Forensic Suites
13. Chapter 9: Autopsy 14. Chapter 10: Analysis with Xplico 15. Chapter 11: Network Analysis 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Drive and partition recognition in Linux

Users new to Kali Linux or any Linux variations may find that the drive, partition recognition, and naming in Kali Linux are different from that of Windows devices.

A typical device in Linux can be addressed or recognized as /dev/sda, whereas drives in Windows are usually recognized as Disk 0, Disk 1, and so on:

  • /dev: Refers to the path of all devices and drives, which can be read from or written to, recognized by Linux
  • /sda: Refers to the Small Computer System Interface (SCSI), SATA, and USB devices

The sd stands for SCSI Mass-Storage Driver, with the letter after it representing the drive number:

  • sda: Drive 0, or the first drive recognized
  • sdb: The second drive

While Windows recognizes partitions as primary, logical, and extended, Linux partitions are recognized as numbers after the drive letter:

  • sda1: Partition 1 on the first disk (sda)
  • sda2: Partition 2 on the first disk
  • sdb1: Partition...
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Shiva V. N. Parasram is a cybersecurity and risk consultant with over 19 years of experience and is the executive director of the Computer Forensics and Security Institute (CFSI), which specializes in pentesting, Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), and advanced security training with a global reach. As the only Certified EC-Council Instructor (CEI) in the Caribbean, he has trained thousands and is the founder of the CFSI CyberFence program. Shiva is also the author of three other books from Packt Publishing and has delivered workshops regionally and globally for ISACA, ISC2, universities, and security agencies. He is also a Security Risk Manager Consultant for PTRMS (Canada) positioned within a global financial institution, and a cybersecurity mentor at Springboard (US).
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