A Practical Guide to Digital Forensics Investigations

01 Introduction +

02 The Scope of Digital Forensics 8 topics +

• Popular Myths about Computer Forensics
• Types of Digital Forensic Evidence Recovered
• What Skills Must a Digital Forensics Investigator Possess?
• The Importance of Digital Forensics
• Job Opportunities
• A History of Digital Forensics
• Training and Education
• Summary

03 Windows Operating and File Systems 8 topics +

• Physical and Logical Storage
• Paging
• File Conversion and Numbering Formats
• Operating Systems
• Windows Registry
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Windows Features
• Summary

04 Handling Computer Hardware 5 topics +

• Hard Disk Drives
• Cloning a PATA or SATA Hard Disk
• Removable Memory
• Summary
• Reference

05 Acquiring Evidence in a Computer Forensics Lab 7 topics +

• Lab Requirements
• Private-Sector Computer Forensics Laboratories
• Computer Forensics Laboratory Requirements
• Extracting Evidence from a Device
• Skimmers
• Steganography
• Summary