Chapter 4. Initial Triage and Live Response - Data Analysis

Solutions in this chapter:

  • Initial Triage
  • Tricks of the Trade
  • User Activity
  • Network Connections
  • Running Processes
  • Open File Handlers
  • Summary

Introduction

OK … so now you have gathered all of the volatile information from the target system(s), and powered them down. Now what? How do you go from a bunch of seemingly unrelated data, to meaningful information that will help to bring you closer to figuring out what has occurred? The information that needs to be gleaned from the volatile data will obviously change from case to case, but the means by which you parse out this information ...

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