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

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803238678

Length 532 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Concepts

Forensics

Author (1):

Gerard Johansen

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

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

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Appendix

Getting back to normal – eradication, recovery, and post-incident activity

Once an incident has been properly and comprehensively investigated, it is time to move into the eradication and recovery phase. There may be a good deal of haste in getting to this stage, as there is a strong desire to return to normal operations. While there may be business drivers at play here, rushing eradication and recovery may reintroduce an unidentified compromised system that has been overlooked. In other scenarios, it could be possible to miss the patching of previously compromised systems, leaving them open to the same exploits that previously compromised them or, worse, placing a still-infected system back on the network. For this reason, we will thoroughly address both eradication and recovery strategies.

Eradication strategies

The unfortunate reality with modern malware is that there is no surefire way to ensure that all malicious code has been removed. In the past, organizations could...