Digital Forensics: Threatscape and Best Practices

Digital Forensics: Threatscape and Best Practices surveys the problems and challenges confronting digital forensic professionals today, including massive data sets and everchanging technology. This book provides a coherent overview of the threatscape in a broad range of topics, providing practitioners and students alike with a comprehensive, coherent overview of the threat landscape and what can be done to manage and prepare for it. Digital Forensics: Threatscape and Best Practices delivers you with incisive analysis and best practices from a panel of expert authors, led by John Sammons, bestselling author of The Basics of Digital Forensics.

Learn the basics of cryptocurrencies (like Bitcoin) and the artifacts they generateLearn why examination planning matters and how to do it effectivelyDiscover how to incorporate behaviorial analysis into your digital forensics examinationsStay updated with the key artifacts created by the latest Mac OS, OS X 10.11, El CapitanDiscusses the threatscapes and challenges facing mobile device forensics, law enforcement, and legal casesThe power of applying the electronic discovery workflows to digital forensicsDiscover the value of and impact of social media forensics

CHAPTER 1 The Cryptocurrency Enigma

CHAPTER 2 The Key to Forensic Success: Examination Planning is a Key Determinant of Effi cient and Effective Digital Forensics

CHAPTER 3 Psychological Profi ling as An Investigative Tool for Digital Forensics

CHAPTER 4 The Intersection Between Social Media, Crime, and Digital Forensics: #WhoDunIt?

CHAPTER 5 Mobile Device Forensics: Threats, Challenges, and Future Trends

CHAPTER 6 Digital Forensics in an eDiscover World

CHAPTER 7 OS X El Capitan Forensics

CHAPTER 8 Cybercrimes: An Overview of Contemporary Challenges and Impending Threats

CHAPTER 9 Introduction