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Digital Forensics and Incident Response - Second Edition

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Published in Jan 2020
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ISBN-13 9781838649005
Pages 448 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Gerard Johansen Gerard Johansen
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Gerard Johansen is an information security professional with over a decade of experience in penetration testing, vulnerability management, threat assessment modeling, and incident response. Beginning his career as a cyber crime investigator, he has also worked as a consultant and security analyst for clients and organizations ranging from healthcare to finance. He is a graduate from Norwich University, gaining an MSc in Information Assurance and also a CISSP, and is currently employed with an international information technology services firm that specializes in incident response and threat intelligence.
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Foundations of Incident Response and Digital Forensics
2. Understanding Incident Response 3. Managing Cyber Incidents 4. Fundamentals of Digital Forensics 5. Section 2: Evidence Acquisition
6. Collecting Network Evidence 7. Acquiring Host-Based Evidence 8. Forensic Imaging 9. Section 3: Analyzing Evidence
10. Analyzing Network Evidence 11. Analyzing System Memory 12. Analyzing System Storage 13. Analyzing Log Files 14. Writing the Incident Report 15. Section 4: Specialist Topics
16. Malware Analysis for Incident Response 17. Leveraging Threat Intelligence 18. Hunting for Threats 19. Assessment 20. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Memory analysis with Redline

One powerful tool that analysts should include in their toolkits is Mandiant Redline. This Microsoft Windows application provides a feature-rich platform for analyzing memory images. These features include the ability to create a memory collector, although the tool will work with memory captures that have been performed via tools previously discussed. There is also the ability to utilize previously discovered Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) to aid in the examination. The tool can be downloaded at https://www.fireeye.com/services/freeware/redline.html. The download package includes a Microsoft self installer.

Redline analysis process

To demonstrate some of the key features of Redline, the Stuxnet...

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Gerard Johansen
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Gerard Johansen is an information security professional with over a decade of experience in penetration testing, vulnerability management, threat assessment modeling, and incident response. Beginning his career as a cyber crime investigator, he has also worked as a consultant and security analyst for clients and organizations ranging from healthcare to finance. He is a graduate from Norwich University, gaining an MSc in Information Assurance and also a CISSP, and is currently employed with an international information technology services firm that specializes in incident response and threat intelligence.
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