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Cyber Forensics: A Field Manual for Collecting,Examining,and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Cyber Forensics: A Field Manual for Collecting,Examining,and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes by Albert J. Marcella

Authors: Albert J. Marcella (Editor), Robert S. Greenfield, Robert S. Greenfield (Editor), Robert S. Greenfield
ISBN-13: 9780849309557, ISBN-10: 0849309557
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: CRC Press
Date Published: January 2002
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Albert J. Marcella

Book Synopsis

Given our increasing dependency on computing technology in daily business processes, and the growing opportunity to use engineering technologies to engage in illegal, unauthorized, and unethical acts aimed at corporate infrastructure, every organization is at risk. Cyber Forensics: A Field Manual for Collecting, Examining, and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes provides a comprehensive, highly usable, and clearly organized resource to the issues, tools, and control techniques needed to successfully investigate illegal activities perpetuated through the use of information technology.

Traditional forensics professionals use fingerprints, DNA typing, and ballistics analysis to make their case. Infosec professionals have to develop new tools for collecting, examining, and evaluating data in an effort to establish intent, culpability, motive, means, methods and loss resulting from e-crimes. The field bible for infosecurity professionals, this book introduces you to the broad field of cyber forensics and presents the various tools and techniques designed to maintain control over your organization.

You will understand how to:

Identify inappropriate uses of corporate IT

Examine computing environments to identify and gather electronic evidence of wrongdoing

Secure corporate systems from further misuse

Identify individuals responsible for engaging in inappropriate acts taken with or without corporate computing systems

Protect and secure electronic evidence from intentional or accidental modification or destruction

Cyber Forensics: A Field Manual for Collecting, Examining, and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes provides a set of varied resources for anyone required to look under the hood and behind closed doors of a virtual world to gather evidence and to establish credible audit trails of electronic wrong doing. Knowing how to identify, gather, document, and preserve evidence of electronic tampering and misuse makes reading this book and using the forensic audit procedures it discusses essential to protecting corporate assets.

	Introduction
Sect. I	Cyber Forensics
1	The Goal of the Forensic Investigation	3
2	How to Begin a Nonliturgical Forensic Investigation	19
3	The Liturgical Forensic Examination: Tracing Activity on a Windows-Based Desktop	47
4	Basics of Internet Abuse: What Is Possible and Where to Look Under the Hood	79
5	Tools of the Trade: Automated Tools Used to Secure a System Throughout the Stages of a Forensic Investigation	97
6	Network Intrusion Management and Profiling	117
7	Cyber Forensics and the Legal System	133
Sect. II	Federal and International Guidelines
8	Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence	149
9	Computer Crime Policy and Programs	179
10	International Aspects of Computer Crime	205
11	Privacy Issues in the High-Tech Context	221
12	Critical Infrastructure Protection	227
13	Electronic Commerce: Legal Issues	249
14	Legal Considerations in Designing and Implementing Electronic Processes: A Guide for Federal Agencies	287
15	Encryption	335
16	Intellectual Property	361
Sect. III	Forensics Tools
17	Forensic and Security Assessment Tools	375
18	How to Report Internet-Related Crime	389
19	Internet Security: An Auditor's Basic Checklist	391
Sect. IV	Appendices
	App. A: Glossary	399
	App. B: Recommended Reading List	415
	Index	425