X-Ways Forensics Practitioner’s Guide

Foreword

I’ve been waiting for this book for nearly a decade.

As a devoted user of X-Ways Forensics since its introduction, I turn to X-Ways Forensics more than any other tool in my lab. I’ve watched X-Ways Forensics mature from a brilliant hex editor to a digital forensics tool of incomparable depth, power, and flexibility. Yet, after years of daily use, X-Ways Forensics still manages to amaze and daunt me with its wealth of features and options.

I’m an old-school forensic examiner. I honed my skills in DOS using a hex editor, so I feel a deep kinship with X-Ways Forensics’ old-school emphasis on the data notwithstanding its being one of the most advanced digital forensic analysis platforms on the market. Though it greatly simplifies the ...