Virtual machines
Other systems that incident response analysts should prepare to address are virtual machines. The one distinct advantage that virtual systems have over physical systems is their ability to maintain the current state by either performing a snapshot of the system or simply pausing. This allows incident response analysts to simply copy the entire file over to an evidence drive for later analysis. It is recommended that analysts ensure that they conduct a hash of each component of the virtual machine pre and post copy to ensure the integrity of the evidence.
One key feature of popular virtualization software such as VMware is that the virtual machine utilizes two files for the running memory. The first of these is the Virtual ...
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