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Digital Forensics and Incident Response
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Digital Forensics and Incident Response

by Gerard Johansen
July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
324 pages
7h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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Hardware

The laboratory should have sufficient computers and other hardware to perform the variety of functions necessary. Examiners will be tasked with imaging hard drives and processing gigabytes of data. As a result, a forensic computer with sufficient RAM is necessary. While there are personal preferences for the amount, a minimum of 32 GB of RAM is recommended. In addition to memory and processing power, examiners will often be looking at a large amount of data. Forensic workstations should have a primary OS drive that can contain forensic software and a secondary drive to hold evidence. The secondary drive should contain 2 TB or greater of storage.

In addition to a forensic workstation, the examiner should also be provided an internet ...

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ISBN: 9781787288683