X-Ways Forensics Practitioner's Guide

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-12-411605-4
Verlag: Syngress Media,U.S.

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 504 g

The X-Ways Forensics Practitioner's Guide is more than a manual-it's a complete reference guide to the full use of one of the most powerful forensic applications available, software that is used by a wide array of law enforcement agencies and private forensic examiners on a daily basis.

In the X-Ways Forensics Practitioner's Guide, the authors provide you with complete coverage of this powerful tool, walking you through configuration and X-Ways fundamentals, and then moving through case flow, creating and importing hash databases, digging into OS artifacts, and conducting searches.

With X-Ways Forensics Practitioner's Guide, you will be able to use X-Ways Forensics to its fullest potential without any additional training. The book takes you from installation to the most advanced features of the software. Once you are familiar with the basic components of X-Ways, the authors demonstrate never-before-documented features using real life examples and information on how to present investigation results. The book culminates with chapters on reporting, triage and preview methods, as well as electronic discovery and cool X-Ways apps.

Zielgruppe

Information Security professionals of all levels, digital forensic examiners and investigators, InfoSec consultants, attorneys, law enforcement officers. Also can sell to forensic training vendors, government training courses, universities, and high-tech crime associations

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shavers, Brett

Zimmerman, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Computersicherheit Computer-Forensik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Computersicherheit Computerkriminalität & Hacking
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Installation and Configuration of X-Ways Forensics
- Case Management and Imaging
- Navigating the X-Ways Forensics Interface
- Refine Volume Snapshot
- The XWF Internal Has Database and the Registry Viewer
- Searching in X-Ways Forensics
- Advanced Use of X-Ways Forensics
- X-Ways Forensics Reporting
- X-Ways Forensics and Electronic Discovery
- X-Ways Forensics and Criminal Investigations

Über Autor(innen)

Shavers, Brett
Brett Shavers is a former law enforcement officer of a municipal police department. He has been an investigator assigned to state and federal task forces. Besides working many specialty positions, Brett was the first digital forensics examiner at his police department, attended over 2000 hours of forensic training courses across the country, collected more than a few certifications along the way, and set up the department's first digital forensics lab in a small, cluttered storage closet.

Zimmerman, Eric
Eric Zimmerman has been involved with computers in some form or fashion since the days of the Commodore 64. Eric holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. In 2007, Eric started working for a federal law enforcement agency as a Special Agent.