Stories from the Front Line: Forensic Investigation and Incident Response

Overview: This workshop will provide a foundation to attendees on the basics of performing a forensic investigation on a corporate or SOHO network. The course will primarily discuss forensics on a Windows system and network, but, Linux and Mac systems will be briefly discusses during the workshop where applicable. Attendees will learn techniques on how to properly collect possible evidentiary data, how to store the collected data, how to analyze the information and evaluate the data. Topics that will be c

Key Topics: overed include: - Pre-incident.. Setting up your forensic analysis toolkit. - First contact with an incident. What should you do and not do. - Collecting volatile data. Tools and techniques - Collecting and storing non-volatile data. - Utilizing open source software to analyze the data - Making a determination and writing the report based on the analyzed data. - What to do with the collected and analyzed information. This workshop is intended to provide a basic overview of how to properly collect and handle data in a corporate or enterprise network. The course will cover several tools and provide labs for the students to complete to familiari

Takeaways: er procedures to use. However, this class will not make a deep dive into any of the tools. Nor is this class intended for the professional forensic investigator.