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Digital Forensics and Incident Response

You're reading from  Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288683
Pages 324 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Gerard Johansen Gerard Johansen
Profile icon Gerard Johansen

Network device evidence


There are a number of log sources that can provide CSIRT personnel and incident responders with good information. A range of manufacturers provides each of these network devices. As a preparation task, CSIRT personnel should become familiar on how to access these devices and obtain the necessary evidence:

  • Switches: These are spread throughout a network through a combination of core switches that handle traffic from a range of network segments and edge switches that handle the traffic for individual segments. As a result, traffic that originates on a host and travels out the internal network will traverse a number of switches. Switches have two key points of evidence that should be addressed by incident responders. First is the content addressable memory (CAM) table. This CAM table maps the physical ports on the switch to the Network Interface Card (NIC) on each device connected to the switch. Incident responders in tracing connections to specific network jacks can...
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