Digital Forensics Basics: A Practical Guide Using Windows OS

© Nihad A. Hassan 2019

Nihad A. HassanDigital Forensics Basicshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3838-7_3

3. Computer Forensics Lab Requirements

Nihad A. Hassan¹ 

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New York, New York, USA

 

Software and hardware tools you need to begin your investigation

With the increased number of cybercrime attacks that hit both the public and the private sector, the need for computer forensics lab to capture and analyze digital evidence with high accuracy increases. You may think that computer forensics labs are limited to law enforcement agencies. However, this is not true: many corporations in the United States maintain digital forensics labs with advanced investigation capabilities that exceed those of many police labs.

As we talked about in Chapter 1, digital ...