Defensive Edge: Adapting Red Team Hardware for IR

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Background: Red team specialists often use specialized hardware during operations. However, don't worry—this hardware isn't exclusive to red teams. Incident responders also can use some of hardware [...] Read more

Scalable Snapshot Management in the Cloud for Windows and Linux Systems: Best Practices for Data Security and Forensics

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Background: During a cybersecurity incident in the cloud, one of the mandatory steps is to take a snapshot of the machine that contains the threat, isolate it, and preserve the snapshot or filesystem [...] Read more

Preparing and Building Forensic Tools for Volatile Memory Acquisition: Techniques and Best Practices [ Part 2.5 ]

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Background: In my previous article, I covered, at a high level, all the necessary actions required to prepare for volatile memory dumping in the case of a cybersecurity incident. This process is [...] Read more

Building a Forensic USB Drive: Tools and Techniques for Imaging [ PART 1.5 ]

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Background: In a previous article, I discussed the high-level preparations needed to acquire an image of a machine requiring forensic analysis. However, have you considered the caveats related to [...] Read more

Forensic Analysis Preparation: Preserving Logs in Windows Cloud Environments [ PART 3 ]

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Background: In contrast to classic logging systems that preserve on-premises data, cloud systems require some familiarity with the components provided by cloud vendors. To prepare for cloud [...] Read more

Forensic Analysis Preparation for Windows Operating Systems in Incident Response: Utilizing Volatility for Memory Analysis [ PART 2 ]

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Background: In our previous article, we discussed the preparation needed for the "log collection" stage of incident response, which is essential for the "analysis" stage. We covered how to prepare [...] Read more