Digital forensics is a key technology of the interconnected era, allowing investigators to recover, maintain, and examine digital evidence of cybercrime. With ever-increasingly sophisticated digital threats, the applications of digital forensics increase across industries, aiding law enforcement, business security, and judicial processes.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of digital forensics, covering its scope, methods for examining digital evidence to resolve cybercrimes, and its role in protecting enterprise assets and ensuring regulatory compliance. It explores the field's evolution, its broad scope across network, mobile, and cloud forensics, and essential legal and ethical considerations. The book also details the investigation process, discusses various forensic tools, and delves into specialized areas like network, memory, mobile, and virtualization forensics. It also highlights forensics' cooperation with incident response teams, touches on advanced techniques, and addresses its application in industrial control systems (ICS) and the Internet of Things (IoT). Finally, it covers establishing a forensic laboratory and offers career guidance.
After reading this book, readers will have a balanced and practical grasp of the digital forensics space, spanning from basic concepts to advanced areas such as IoT, memory, mobile, and industrial control systems forensics. With technical know-how, legal insights, and hands-on familiarity with industry-leading tools and processes, readers will be adequately equipped to carry out effective digital investigations, make significant contributions to enterprise security, and progress confidently in their digital forensics careers.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
* Role of digital forensics in digital investigation.
* Establish forensic labs and advance your digital forensics career path.
* Strategize enterprise incident response and investigate insider threat scenarios.
* Navigate legal frameworks, chain of custody, and privacy in investigations.
* Investigate virtualized environments, ICS, and advanced anti-forensic techniques.
* Investigation of sophisticated modern cybercrimes.
WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
This book is ideal for digital forensics analysts, cybersecurity professionals, law enforcement authorities, IT analysts, and attorneys who want to gain in-depth knowledge about digital forensics. The book empowers readers with the technical, legal, and investigative skill sets necessary to contain and act against advanced cybercrimes in the contemporary digital world.
Abhirup Guha holds a Master of Business Administration in Information Technology from IBMR and a Bachelor of Computer Applications from NSEC College. He also holds a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification from Charles Sturt University and several cybersecurity certifications from various universities worldwide.
As an accomplished cybersecurity expert, he is passionate about sharing his knowledge and skills with individuals and businesses to help them safeguard their digital assets against emerging cyber threats. With over 15+ years of experience in the industry, he has successfully trained professionals on various topics, including cyber forensics, mobile forensics, and cybersecurity.
Beyond the boardroom, he also serves as an Associate Cyber Security and Cyber Forensic Trainer at a reputed government body, where he delivers comprehensive training on forensic cloning, steganography, and digital evidence management. As a Lead Penetration Tester and Security Auditor at a reputed organization, he helped clients secure their digital infrastructure from a consistently evolving threat landscape.
