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Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Digital Forensics and Incident Response

By : Gerard Johansen
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Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Digital Forensics and Incident Response

4.9 (15)
By: Gerard Johansen

Overview of this book

An understanding of how digital forensics integrates with the overall response to cybersecurity incidents is key to securing your organization’s infrastructure from attacks. This updated third edition will help you perform cutting-edge digital forensic activities and incident response with a new focus on responding to ransomware attacks. After covering the fundamentals of incident response that are critical to any information security team, you’ll explore incident response frameworks. From understanding their importance to creating a swift and effective response to security incidents, the book will guide you using examples. Later, you’ll cover digital forensic techniques, from acquiring evidence and examining volatile memory through to hard drive examination and network-based evidence. You’ll be able to apply these techniques to the current threat of ransomware. As you progress, you’ll discover the role that threat intelligence plays in the incident response process. You’ll also learn how to prepare an incident response report that documents the findings of your analysis. Finally, in addition to various incident response activities, the book will address malware analysis and demonstrate how you can proactively use your digital forensic skills in threat hunting. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to investigate and report unwanted security breaches and incidents in your organization.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
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Part 1: Foundations of Incident Response and Digital Forensics
6
Part 2: Evidence Acquisition
11
Part 3: Evidence Analysis
17
Part 4: Ransomware Incident Response
20
Part 5: Threat Intelligence and Hunting
Appendix

Summary

At the heart of log analysis is the assumption that actions by an adversary will leave a trace. Just as in the physical world, responders’ ability to see these traces is based upon the tools and techniques that are used. This chapter explored the foundational elements of logs and log management, as well as tools such as SIEM to aggregate and review these logs, and, finally, looked at the tools and techniques to examine the most prevalent logs that originate from the Windows OS. This chapter has only scratched the surface concerning how logs play an integral part in an incident investigation.

In keeping with the theme of understanding the traces of an adversary attack, the next chapter will examine the role that malware analysis plays in incident response.

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