This book provides a comprehensive guide to incident response and computer forensics, covering the entire lifecycle of incident response, including preparation, data collection, data analysis, and remediation. It includes real-world case studies and practical techniques for investigating and remediating data breaches. The book covers topics such as architecting an infrastructure for methodical investigation and remediation, developing leads and identifying indicators of compromise, collecting and preserving live data, performing forensic duplication, analyzing data from networks and applications, investigating Windows and Mac OS X systems, performing malware triage, writing detailed incident response reports, and creating comprehensive remediation plans.
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Autopsy is a GUI-based digital forensics platform for analyzing hard drives and smart phones, with a plug-in architecture for custom modules.
Automated collection tool for incident response triage in Windows systems.
A collaborative forensic timeline analysis tool for organizing and analyzing data with rich annotations and comments.
Scripts to automate the process of enumerating a Linux system through a Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability.
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