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Digital Forensics and Incident Response

You're reading from Digital Forensics and Incident Response A practical guide to deploying digital forensic techniques in response to cyber security incidents

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787288683

Length 324 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Wireshark

Concepts

Forensics

Author (1):

Gerard Johansen

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Incident Response

2. Forensic Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

3. Network Evidence Collection

4. Acquiring Host-Based Evidence

5. Understanding Forensic Imaging

6. Network Evidence Analysis

7. Analyzing System Memory

8. Analyzing System Storage

9. Forensic Reporting

10. Malware Analysis

11. Threat Intelligence

Dynamic analysis

Dynamic Analysis is often facilitated using a sandbox. One method is to have a virtual appliance with the proper operating system installed. From here, the analyst can monitor network traffic, examine processes and compare them to normal baseline behavior. Deviations from this baseline can be examined in more detail to determine if they are legitimate or tied to a malicious executable.

In addition to utilizing virtual machines, there are several automated tools that re-create the sandbox environment for analysts to execute live applications that are suspected of containing malicious code. These tools can be configured and deployed within the enterprise environment, or there is the ability to upload the potential malware to a cloud- based service that can perform the functions of a malware sandbox.

Process Explorer

One of the key tools that allows for detailed examination of malware as it is executing is the Process Explorer. This tool is made as part of the Windows Sysinternal...

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Authors (1)

Gerard Johansen

Gerard Johansen

Gerard Johansen is an incident response professional with over 15 years' experience in areas like penetration testing, vulnerability management, threat assessment modeling, and incident response. Beginning his information security career as a cyber crime investigator, he has built on that experience while working as a consultant and security analyst for clients and organizations ranging from healthcare to finance. Gerard is a graduate of Norwich University's Master of Science in Information Assurance program and a certified information systems security professional. He is currently employed as a senior incident response consultant with a large technology company, focusing on incident detection, response, and threat intelligence integration.

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