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Published inFeb 2016
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Samir Datt
Samir Datt
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Samir Datt

Samir Datt has been dabbling with digital investigations since 1988, which was around the time he solved his first case with the help of an old PC and Lotus 123. He is the Founder CEO of Foundation Futuristic Technologies (P) Ltd, better known as ForensicsGuru.com. He is widely credited with evangelizing computer forensics in the Indian subcontinent and has personally trained thousands of law enforcement officers in the area. He has the distinction of starting the computer forensics industry in South Asia and setting up India's first computer forensic lab in the private sector. He is consulted by law enforcement agencies and private sector on various technology-related investigative issues. He has extensive experience in training thousands of investigators as well as examining a large number of digital sources of evidence in both private and government investigations.
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Once any incident is over and done with, the team needs to focus on the lessons learned. From an incident response perspective, the focus is on answering questions such as the following:

  • How did this happen?

  • What can we do to prevent it from reoccurring?

  • What preventive measures can be put into place?

  • How can monitoring and alerting be improved?

From a network forensics perspective, the additional questions to be answered include the following:

  • Which artifacts exist that can help us identify such an incident in the future?

  • What are the lessons learned?

  • How can we improve the investigation process?

  • What IOC can be identified that can be shared with the Incident Response team to help prevent a reoccurrence of such an incident?

While the attackers constantly evolve and innovate in order to keep coming up with newer ways to compromise the networks without getting detected, network forensic investigators too have to keep pace. This means constantly updating oneself, learning from...

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Samir Datt

Samir Datt has been dabbling with digital investigations since 1988, which was around the time he solved his first case with the help of an old PC and Lotus 123. He is the Founder CEO of Foundation Futuristic Technologies (P) Ltd, better known as ForensicsGuru.com. He is widely credited with evangelizing computer forensics in the Indian subcontinent and has personally trained thousands of law enforcement officers in the area. He has the distinction of starting the computer forensics industry in South Asia and setting up India's first computer forensic lab in the private sector. He is consulted by law enforcement agencies and private sector on various technology-related investigative issues. He has extensive experience in training thousands of investigators as well as examining a large number of digital sources of evidence in both private and government investigations.
Read more about Samir Datt