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Learn Computer Forensics

You're reading from   Learn Computer Forensics A beginner's guide to searching, analyzing, and securing digital evidence

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838648176
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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William Oettinger William Oettinger
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Acquiring Evidence
2. Chapter 1: Types of Computer-Based Investigations FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Forensic Analysis Process 4. Chapter 3: Acquisition of Evidence 5. Chapter 4: Computer Systems 6. Section 2: Investigation
7. Chapter 5: Computer Investigation Process 8. Chapter 6: Windows Artifact Analysis 9. Chapter 7: RAM Memory Forensic Analysis 10. Chapter 8: Email Forensics – Investigation Techniques 11. Chapter 9: Internet Artifacts 12. Section 3: Reporting
13. Chapter 10: Report Writing 14. Chapter 11: Expert Witness Ethics 15. Assessments 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Media analysis

There are several vectors that you can use timeline analysis on, such as network analysis, media analysis, software analysis, and hardware analysis. Network analysis is where you are analyzing log files, trace files, and the communication content between users and their devices. Media analysis is where you are analyzing physical storage devices such as hard drives, SSD drives, thumb drives, or optical storage disks. You will examine the content, allocated space, and slack space. When performing software analysis, you are reverse-engineering malicious code or analyzing the protection code for potential exports.

So, let's look at media analysis. The primary source of your digital investigation will be the forensic images of storage devices such as hard drives, SSDs, USB devices, optical disks, and mobile devices such as smartphones. Depending on your organization, you may be the person responsible for creating the forensic image, or the forensic...

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