Basic Digital Forensic Techniques
Acquire fundamental skills in collecting and preserving digital evidence during a security incident for analysis.
What is Digital Forensics?
Welcome to Basic Digital Forensic Techniques! In this lesson, we'll learn how to properly collect and preserve digital evidence during a security incident.
Digital forensics is the process of identifying, preserving, recovering, analyzing, and presenting facts about digital evidence. It's crucial for understanding breaches and for potential legal action.
The Forensic Process Overview
A typical digital forensic investigation follows several key stages:
- Identification: Recognizing a potential incident.
- Preservation: Protecting potential evidence from alteration.
- Collection: Acquiring the evidence.
- Analysis: Examining the collected data.
- Reporting: Documenting findings.
This lesson focuses on the crucial steps of Preservation and Collection.
All lessons in this course
- Recognizing Security Breaches and Indicators
- Basic Digital Forensic Techniques
- Containment and Eradication Strategies
- Evidence Preservation and Chain of Custody