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Gerard Johansen
Gerard Johansen
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Gerard Johansen

Gerard Johansen is an incident response professional with over 15 years' experience in areas like penetration testing, vulnerability management, threat assessment modeling, and incident response. Beginning his information security career as a cyber crime investigator, he has built on that experience while working as a consultant and security analyst for clients and organizations ranging from healthcare to finance. Gerard is a graduate of Norwich University's Master of Science in Information Assurance program and a certified information systems security professional. He is currently employed as a senior incident response consultant with a large technology company, focusing on incident detection, response, and threat intelligence integration.
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This chapter discussed two major topic areas of memory analysis. First is the data points available and the methodology that can be followed. In addition, several tools, such as Redline, Volatility, and Strings have been explored. In addition to an overview of these tools, several of their features have been explored. This only scratches the surface of the number of features each of these tools has to offer the incident response analyst. These tools, taken in conjunction with a methodology for analyzing system RAM, can give the analyst a powerful tool for determining if a system has been compromised. With malware becoming more advanced, including malware that executes entirely in RAM, it is critical that analysts incorporate memory analysis into their capability. Marrying these techniques with network evidence collection can provide analysts and their organizations with...

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Gerard Johansen

Gerard Johansen is an incident response professional with over 15 years' experience in areas like penetration testing, vulnerability management, threat assessment modeling, and incident response. Beginning his information security career as a cyber crime investigator, he has built on that experience while working as a consultant and security analyst for clients and organizations ranging from healthcare to finance. Gerard is a graduate of Norwich University's Master of Science in Information Assurance program and a certified information systems security professional. He is currently employed as a senior incident response consultant with a large technology company, focusing on incident detection, response, and threat intelligence integration.
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