Learn Computer Forensics - Second Edition: Your one-stop guide to searching, analyzing, acquiring, and securing digital evidence

Learn Computer Forensics from a veteran investigator and technical trainer and explore how to properly document digital evidence collected

Key Features:

• Investigate the core methods of computer forensics to procure and secure advanced digital evidence skillfully
• Record the digital evidence collected and organize a forensic examination on it
• Perform an assortment of Windows scientific examinations to analyze and overcome complex challenges

Book Description:

Computer Forensics, being a broad topic, involves a variety of skills which will involve seizing electronic evidence, acquiring data from electronic evidence, data analysis, and finally developing a forensic report.

This book will help you to build up the skills you need to work in a highly technical environment. This book's ideal goal is to get you up and running with forensics tools and techniques to successfully investigate crime and corporate misconduct. You will discover ways to collect personal information about an individual from online sources. You will also learn how criminal investigations are performed online while preserving data such as e-mails, images, and videos that may be important to a case. You will further explore networking and understand Network Topologies, IP Addressing, and Network Devices. Finally, you will how to write a proper forensic report, the most exciting portion of the forensic exam process.

By the end of this book, you will have developed a clear understanding of how to acquire, analyze, and present digital evidence, like a proficient computer forensics investigator.

What You Will Learn:

• Explore the investigative process, rules of evidence, legal process, and ethical guidelines
• Understand the difference between sectors, clusters, volumes, and file slack
• Validate forensic equipment, computer program, and examination methods
• Create and validate forensically sterile media
• Gain the ability to draw conclusions based on the exam discoveries
• Record discoveries utilizing the technically correct terminology
• Discover the limitations and guidelines for RAM Capture and its tools
• Explore timeline analysis, media analysis, string searches, and recovery of deleted data

Who this book is for:

This book is for IT beginners, students, or an investigator in the public or private sector. This book will also help IT professionals who are new to incident response and digital forensics and are looking at choosing cybersecurity as their career. Individuals planning to pass the Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE) certification will also find this book useful.

從一位經驗豐富的調查員和技術培訓師那裡學習計算機取證，並探索如何正確記錄收集的數字證據。

主要特點：
- 研究計算機取證的核心方法，熟練地獲取和保護高級數字證據
- 記錄收集的數字證據並對其進行取證檢查
- 進行各種Windows科學檢查，以分析和克服複雜的挑戰

書籍描述：
計算機取證是一個廣泛的主題，涉及多種技能，包括收集電子證據、從電子證據中獲取數據、數據分析以及最終撰寫取證報告。

本書將幫助您建立在高度技術環境中工作所需的技能。本書的目標是讓您能夠運用取證工具和技術成功調查犯罪和企業不端行為。您將學習如何從線上來源收集有關個人的個人信息。您還將學習如何在線上進行刑事調查，同時保留可能對案件重要的電子郵件、圖像和視頻等數據。您還將探索網絡並了解網絡拓撲、IP地址和網絡設備。最後，您將學習如何撰寫一份正確的取證報告，這是取證檢查過程中最令人興奮的部分。

通過閱讀本書，您將清楚了解如何獲取、分析和呈現數字證據，就像一位熟練的計算機取證調查員一樣。

您將學到什麼：
- 探索調查過程、證據規則、法律程序和道德準則
- 理解扇區、簇、卷和文件空隙之間的區別
- 驗證取證設備、計算機程序和檢查方法
- 創建和驗證取證無菌媒體
- 根據檢查發現得出結論的能力
- 使用技術上正確的術語記錄發現
- 探索RAM捕獲及其工具的限制和指南
- 探索時間軸分析、媒體分析、字符串搜索和恢復已刪除的數據

本書適合對IT初學者、學生或公私部門的調查員。本書還對於新接觸事件回應和數字取證並考慮選擇網絡安全作為職業的IT專業人士有所幫助。計劃通過認證取證計算機檢查員（CFCE）認證的個人也會發現本書有用。