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Digital Forensics and Incident Response - Second Edition
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Digital Forensics and Incident Response - Second Edition

by Gerard Johansen
January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
11h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Memory analysis overview

When discussing analyzing the memory of a system, there are two terms that are used interchangeably. The terms RAM and memory are used to describe the portion of the computer's internal systems where the operating system places data utilized by applications and the system hardware while that application or hardware is in use. What makes RAM or memory different from storage is the volatile nature of the data. Often, if the system is shut down, the data will be lost.

One change in operating systems that has had a direct impact on memory analysis is the advent of the 64-bit OS. The use of a 64-bit register allows the OS to reference a total of 17,179,869,184 GB of memory. When compared to the 32-bit OS, this is several ...

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