Overview
- Features new content on corporate forensics, ethics, SQLite databases, triage, and memory analysis
- Provides review questions and practice tasks, as well as supporting video lectures on YouTube
- Contains a strong theoretical introduction and a detailed section that discusses important artifacts
Part of the book series: Texts in Computer Science (TCS)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Forensic Process
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Get Practical
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About this book
This textbook describes the theory and methodology of digital forensic examinations, presenting examples developed in collaboration with police authorities to ensure relevance to real-world practice. The coverage includes discussions on forensic artifacts and constraints, as well as forensic tools used for law enforcement and in the corporate sector. Emphasis is placed on reinforcing sound forensic thinking, and gaining experience in common tasks through hands-on exercises.
This enhanced third edition describes practical digital forensics with open-source tools and includes an outline of current challenges and research directions.
Topics and features:
- Outlines what computer forensics is, and what it can do, as well as what its limitations are
- Discusses both the theoretical foundations and the fundamentals of forensic methodology
- Reviews broad principles that are applicable worldwide
- Explains how to find and interpret several important artifacts
- Describes free and open-source software tools
- Features content on corporate forensics, ethics, SQLite databases, triage, and memory analysis
- Includes new supporting video lectures on YouTube
This easy-to-follow primer is an essential resource for students of computer forensics, and will also serve as a valuable reference for practitioners seeking instruction on performing forensic examinations.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fundamentals of Digital Forensics
Book Subtitle: A Guide to Theory, Research and Applications
Authors: Joakim Kävrestad, Marcus Birath, Nathan Clarke
Series Title: Texts in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53649-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53648-9Published: 22 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53909-1Due: 22 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-53649-6Published: 21 March 2024
Series ISSN: 1868-0941
Series E-ISSN: 1868-095X
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XIV, 298
Number of Illustrations: 68 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour
Topics: Systems and Data Security, Forensic Science, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Crime Control and Security