Digital Forensics Explained

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Preface

Purpose and Approach

Most technical books tend to be tool-centric and often take on a cookbook approach

to describing how to use a specific tool. ese books often show a series of screen

shots illustrating wizards or mouse-click sequences to perform a task. ese types of

books have their place, but that is not the type of book that I wanted to write. I was

after something that explained the concepts of digital forensics and how the pieces fit

together—kind of a “do not give someone a fish, but rather teach them how to fish”

approach. I was looking to write a book that was not dependent on a version of soft-

ware or a piece of technology. e challenge in digital forensics is to open your eyes,

see the big picture, and think things thro