Computer & Intrusion Forensics

Description

A comprehensive and broad introduction to computer and intrusion forensics, this practical work is designed to help you master the tools, techniques and underlying concepts you need to know, covering the areas of law enforcement, national security and the private sector. The text presents case studies from around the world, and treats key emerging areas such as stegoforensics, image identification, authorship categorization, link discovery and data mining. It also covers the principles and processes for handling evidence from digital sources effectively and law enforcement considerations in dealing with computer-related crimes, as well as how the effectiveness of computer forensics procedures may be influenced by organizational security policy.


Contents:

Computer Crime, Computer Forensics and Computer Security - Introduction. Human behaviour in the electronic age. The nature of computer crime. Establishing a case in computer forensics. Legal considerations. Computer security and its relationship to computer forensics. Overview of the following chapters.

Current Practice - Introduction. Electronic Evidence. Forensic Tools. Emerging Procedures and Standards. Computer Crime Legislation and Computer Forensics. Networks and Intrusion Forensics.

Computer Forensics in Law Enforcement and National Security - The Origins and History of Computer Forensics. The Role of Computer Forensics in Law Enforcement. Principles of Evidence. Computer Forensics Model for Law Enforcement. Forensic Examination. Forensic Resources and Tools. Competencies and Certification. Computer Forensics and National Security.

Computer Forensics in Forensic Accounting - Auditing and fraud detection. Defining fraudulent activity. Technology and fraud detection. Fraud Detection Techniques. Visual analysis techniques. Building a fraud analysis model.

Case Studies - The Case of Little Nicky Scarfo. The Case of 'El Griton'. Melissa. The World Trade Centre Bombing and Operation Oplan Bojinka. Other cases.

Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Forensics - Intrusion detection, computer forensics and information warfare. Intrusion Detection Systems. Analysing Computer Intrusions. Network Security. Intrusion Forensics . Future Directions for IDS and Intrusion Forensics.

Research Directions and Future Developments - Introduction. Forensic Data Mining - Finding Useful Patterns in Evidence. Text Categorization. Authorship Attribution: Identifying E-mail Authors. Association Rule Mining - Application to Investigative Profiling. Evidence Extraction, Link Analysis and Link Discovery. Stego-Forensic Analysis. Image Mining. Cryptography and Cryptanalysis. The Future - Society and Technology.