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Published inApr 2020
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781838640804
Edition2nd Edition
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Shiva V. N. Parasram
Shiva V. N. Parasram
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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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Digital forensics with Autopsy

Now that we have our sample image file downloaded (or perhaps even a forensically acquired image of our own), let's proceed with the analysis using the Autopsy browser by first getting acquainted with the different ways to start Autopsy.

Although the Autopsy browser is based on The Sleuth Kit, features of Autopsy differ when using the Windows version compared to the Linux version. Some of the official features offered by The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy 2.4 in Kali Linux include the following:

  • Image analysis: Analyze directories and files including sorting files, recovering deleted files, and previewing files.
  • File activity timelines: Create timelines based on the timestamps of files, when they were written, accessed, and created.
  • Image integrity: Create MD5 hashes of the image file used, as well as individual files.
  • Hash databases: Match the digital hashes or fingerprints of unknown files (such as suspected malicious .exe files...
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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).
Read more about Shiva V. N. Parasram