File system forensic analysis

Brian Carrier

Addison-Wesley, 2005 - Computers - 569 pages

This is an advanced cookbook and reference guide for digital forensic practitioners. File System Forensic Analysis focuses on the file system and disk. The file system of a computer is where most files are stored and where most evidence is found; it also the most technically challenging part of forensic analysis. This book offers an overview and detailed knowledge of the file system and disc layout. The overview will allow an investigator to more easily find evidence, recover deleted data, and validate his tools. The cookbook section will show how to use the many open source tools for analysis, many of which Brian Carrier has developed himself.

What people are saying

User Review -

Does anyone know how not to catch zzzzzzzzz, when reading, say, I don't know, the first 4 pages. Some of the examples are long and it feels like it was taken down from a speech at the ELKS Club. Talk, talk, talk.
Get to the point! Define it, give example or use, next!
Temporal lobe shutting down, recall fails from drab,unimaginitive writing. Until you get to actual work of shredding a file system.
If you are tedious, time consuming, and like to read words defined by the paragraph, then go on. Read it.
Then paper cut my jugular.  

Review: File System Forensic Analysis

User Review  - Stephen Hargrove - Goodreads

This is more than anyone could ever possibly need or want to know about file systems. Ever.

Contents

• Chapter: 17
• Computer Foundations: 18
• CONTENTS: 37

About the author

Brian Carrier has authored several leading computer forensic tools, including The Sleuth Kit (formerly The @stake Sleuth Kit) and the Autopsy Forensic Browser. He has authored several peer-reviewed conference and journal papers and has created publicly available testing images for forensic tools. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Digital Forensics at Purdue University, he is also a research assistant at the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) there. He formerly served as a research scientist at @stake and as the lead for the @stake Response Team and Digital Forensic Labs. Carrier has taught forensics, incident response, and file systems at SANS, FIRST, the @stake Academy, and SEARCH.

Brian Carrier's http: //www.digital-evidence.org contains book updates and up-to-date URLs from the book's references.

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Bibliographic information

• Title: File system forensic analysis
• Author: Brian Carrier
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 2005
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Aug 27, 2011
• ISBN: 0321268172, 9780321268174
• Length: 569 pages
• Subjects: Computer crimes; Computer science; Computer security; Computers / Data Processing; Computers / Internet / Security; Computers / Security / General; Data structures (Computer science); Electronic books; Electronic evidence; File organization (Computer science); Forensic sciences