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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux - Second Edition

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Published in Apr 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838640804

Pages 334 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Author (1):

Shiva V. N. Parasram

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Kali Linux – Not Just for Penetration Testing

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Digital Forensics

3. Chapter 2: Installing Kali Linux

4. Section 2: Forensic Fundamentals and Best Practices

5. Chapter 3: Understanding Filesystems and Storage Media

6. Chapter 4: Incident Response and Data Acquisition

7. Section 3: Forensic Tools in Kali Linux

8. Chapter 5: Evidence Acquisition and Preservation with dc3dd and Guymager

9. Chapter 6: File Recovery and Data Carving with foremost, Scalpel, and bulk_extractor

10. Chapter 7: Memory Forensics with Volatility

11. Chapter 8: Artifact Analysis

12. Section 4: Automated Digital Forensic Suites

13. Chapter 9: Autopsy

14. Chapter 10: Analysis with Xplico

15. Chapter 11: Network Analysis

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Downloading Kali Linux

For safety and security reasons, it is always best to download Kali Linux directly from the website of its creators, Offensive Security. The main reason for this is that the downloads of Kali Linux on other pages could possibly be fake, or worse, infected with malware such as Trojans, rootkits, and even ransomware. Offensive Security has also included hashes of all versions of Kali Linux downloads on their site, allowing users to compare the hash of their downloaded version of Kali Linux with what was generated and posted by Offensive Security on their website (https://www.kali.org). Once there, you can click on the downloads link, or go directly to the Kali Linux downloads page by visiting https://www.kali.org/downloads/.

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Authors (1)

Shiva V. N. Parasram

Shiva V. N. Parasram is a cybersecurity and risk consultant with over 19 years of experience and is the executive director of the Computer Forensics and Security Institute (CFSI), which specializes in pentesting, Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), and advanced security training with a global reach. As the only Certified EC-Council Instructor (CEI) in the Caribbean, he has trained thousands and is the founder of the CFSI CyberFence program. Shiva is also the author of three other books from Packt Publishing and has delivered workshops regionally and globally for ISACA, ISC2, universities, and security agencies. He is also a Security Risk Manager Consultant for PTRMS (Canada) positioned within a global financial institution, and a cybersecurity mentor at Springboard (US).

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