Incident Response & Computer Forensics, Third Edition, 3rd Edition

CHAPTER  14

Investigating Applications

While examining forensic evidence, it’s common to find artifacts that are not part of the operating system. User applications, such as Internet browsers, e-mail clients, office suites, and chat programs, store data on nearly every computer. There are also service applications, such as web servers, database servers, and e-mail servers, that support both user applications and the IT infrastructure. These data sources are often a critical source of evidence for an investigation. Therefore, it’s important to understand ...