Digital Forensics

Digital Forensics: Investigating Systems, Evidence, and Artifacts is a practical, hands-on guide for incident responders, SOC analysts, and aspiring forensic examiners who are ready to move beyond theory into real investigative work.

Across twelve chapters, you'll build a complete forensic skill set: the legal and scientific foundations that make your findings defensible, evidence acquisition from disks, memory, mobile devices, and cloud platforms, and the artifact analysis techniques that reveal exactly what a user or attacker did on a Windows, Linux, or macOS system. Every chapter pairs concept with practice, featuring runnable tool examples using Volatility 3, Plaso, The Sleuth Kit, KAPE, and Eric Zimmerman's tools, along with reusable checklists, forms, and artifact to question mapping tables you can drop straight into your own playbooks.

The book closes with a single, fully worked case study, an insider data theft investigation that walks you from the first acquisition decision through timeline correlation to a defensible final report and expert testimony preparation, showing exactly how every piece fits together in a real case.

Whether you're building a forensic capability from scratch or sharpening skills you already have, this book gives you the craft: the habits, vocabulary, and toolset to run a competent, defensible investigation from the first photograph of the scene to the final page of the report.