Chapter 4

Acquiring Digital Evidence

EnCE Exam Topics Covered in This Chapter:

  • Creating EnCase DOS boot disks
  • Booting computers using EnCase DOS boot disks
  • Drive-to-drive acquisitions
  • Network and parallel cable acquisitions
  • FastBloc/Tableau acquisitions
  • FastBloc SE acquisitions
  • LinEn acquisitions
  • Enterprise and FIM acquisitions
  • EnCase Portable acquisitions

Following best forensics practices, I typically conduct examinations or analyses on copies of the original evidence. In this manner, I preserve the original, protecting it from alteration or corruption. The copy of the original evidence is more commonly called an image. For this image to be a copy and the legal equivalent of the original, it must represent a duplicate image of the original. ...

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