Digital Forensics Playbook Practical recipes by Nishant Krishna(.ePUB)
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Digital Forensics Playbook: Practical recipes for investigating enterprise Windows and Linux system artifacts by Nishant Krishna
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Overview: Digital forensics identifies and preserves digital evidence for legal use. By recovering data from diverse sources, investigators track trails vital for solving cybercrimes, managing network intrusions, and ensuring compliance. It is a key pillar of modern security and data recovery. This book systematically guides you through enterprise readiness, legal compliance, and setting up forensic environments using Python and PowerShell. You will master evidence acquisition across Windows, Linux, and macOS, while exploring network analysis, memory forensics, and malware dissection with Sysinternals and VirusTotal. The book also explores case management with Autopsy, mobile forensics for Android and iOS, and bit-for-bit disk imaging. Featuring over 100 practical recipes, you will learn professional DFIR reporting and cloud-native evidence collection within AWS and Azure. By the end of this book, readers will have the essential digital forensics skills to investigate, respond to, and recover from cyberattacks while preserving evidence for legal, regulatory, or internal use. Existing cybersecurity professionals will find it easy to acquire these skills, helping them achieve their digital forensics career goals. In this chapter, we will understand the importance of developing and testing environments for digital forensics and configure our digital forensics environments for both Linux and Windows. As part of this, we will configure a Python development environment, including a virtual environment for Python. We will also configure and test the PowerShell development environment for Windows. After that, we will understand the PowerShell ISE editor by running a few sample programs. We will also look at how the ISE editor compares to other popular PowerShell editors for Windows. By the end of this chapter, you should be comfortable with using Linux and Windows for various development and scripting needs of digital forensics. This book is for cybersecurity professionals, CHFI aspirants, system administrators, and DevSecOps engineers seeking automated forensic skills. It serves researchers, faculty, and students needing practical expertise in Windows, Linux, and cloud forensics. Basic familiarity with computer systems and security is recommended.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Tech & Devices
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