DESCRIPTION Digital forensics is a key technology of the interconnected era, allowing investigators to recover, maintain, and examine digital evidence of cybercrime. With ever-increasingly sophisticated digital threats, the applications of digital forensics increase across industries, aiding law enforcement, business security, and judicial processes.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of digital forensics, covering its scope, methods for examining digital evidence to resolve cybercrimes, and its role in protecting enterprise assets and ensuring regulatory compliance. It explores the field's evolution, its broad scope across network, mobile, and cloud forensics, and essential legal and ethical considerations. The book also details the investigation process, discusses various forensic tools, and delves into specialized areas like network, memory, mobile, and virtualization forensics. It also highlights forensics' cooperation with incident response teams, touches on advanced techniques, and addresses its application in industrial control systems (ICS) and the Internet of Things (IoT). Finally, it covers establishing a forensic laboratory and offers career guidance.

After reading this book, readers will have a balanced and practical grasp of the digital forensics space, spanning from basic concepts to advanced areas such as IoT, memory, mobile, and industrial control systems forensics. With technical know-how, legal insights, and hands-on familiarity with industry-leading tools and processes, readers will be adequately equipped to carry out effective digital investigations, make significant contributions to enterprise security, and progress confidently in their digital forensics careers.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Role of digital forensics in digital investigation. ● Establish forensic labs and advance your digital forensics career path. ● Strategize enterprise incident response and investigate insider threat scenarios. ● Navigate legal frameworks, chain of custody, and privacy in investigations. ● Investigate virtualized environments, ICS, and advanced anti-forensic techniques. ● Investigation of sophisticated modern cybercrimes.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is ideal for digital forensics analysts, cybersecurity professionals, law enforcement authorities, IT analysts, and attorneys who want to gain in-depth knowledge about digital forensics. The book empowers readers with the technical, legal, and investigative skill sets necessary to contain and act against advanced cybercrimes in the contemporary digital world.