Digital Forensic Diaries: Ghost Resource

by Mike Sheward

Digital forensics is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of the modern day information security field. The Digital Forensics Diaries allow you to follow a digital forensics investigator through the half scientific, half artistic process that leads to cracking cases without any physical evidence. Based on the authors real world experiences, the diaries tell fictionalised versions of security incidents and subsequent investigations. A must read for anyone interested in computer security or the digital forensics field. In this episode our investigator travels to Singapore to work on a fraud case at a large multinational semiconductor company. When two suspects emerge and begin pointing the finger at one another, some smart digital forensics and open source investigation is required to determine who is telling the truth, and who is responsible for defrauding their employer.

36 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 2, 2016

About the author

Mike Sheward CISSP, CISM, CCFP-US, CISA, HCISPP, CEH, OSCP, CHFI is a Chief Information Security Officer. Specializing in the use of ethical hacking techniques to uncover vulnerabilities in application source code and network infrastructure. Mike has performed penetration testing for a wide range of public and private sector clients, been involved in a number of digital forensics investigations and delivered information security training to fellow IT professionals.

Reviews

[Ed · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quick read very interesting walk through a digital investigation

Liked the description of the tools and techniques used to conduct a digital forensic examination. Felt terrible about the outcome of the person being investigated

[Vish · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely loved reading it !