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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 2. Incident Response and Live Analysis

The stages of preparation to respond to an incident are a matter which much attention should be paid to. In some cases, the lack of necessary tools during the incident leads to the inability to perform the necessary actions at the right time.

Taking into account that the reaction time of an incident depends on the efficiency of the incident handling process, it becomes clear that in order to prepare the IR team, its technical support should be very careful.

The whole set of requirements can be divided into several categories for the IR team:

  • Skills
  • Hardware
  • Software

Let's consider the main issues that may arise during the preparation of the incident response team in more detail.

If we want to build a computer security incident response team, we need people with a certain set of skills and technical expertise to perform technical tasks and effectively communicate with other external contacts. Now, we will consider the skills of members...

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