Synopses & Reviews
As access to computers has grown to be so readily available the need for law enforcement and other security professionals to be able to locate and use evidence that can be generated from these tools has increased proportionally. Additionally, as more and more individuals have the ability to write to CDs and DVDs the portability of possible evidence means that the examiner's scope goes beyond the actual site of a computer to anywhere that the suspect may have taken the media. It is up to law enforcement and computer forensic examiners to know what they are looking for, how to handle the possible evidence and how to properly process the evidence so that it will be admissible in a court of law. CD and DVD Forensics takes the security professional through the process from the beginning. Starting with an understanding of the CD and DVD media itself the book helps the examiner to know what he is looking for and how to handle that information. Additionally, the book takes the examiner through the process of how to read and determine the value of what is on a CD or DVD beyond what can be discovered by merely trying to open a disc in a Windows or other operating system environment. The package also includes The growth in the past decade of CD and DVD recording has changed computer forensics. Security professionals cannot ignore CDs and DVDs collected as evidence in an investigation and cannot assume that the same techniques for other media will work adequately. This book presents information about how information is stored on CDs and DVDs and how this relates to computer forensics and processing of evidence. The package also includes trial version of market leading software CD/DVD Inspector.By being able to apply the tools available with the CD/DVD Inspector product the examiner is then able to have access to most anything that could have ever been written on a CD or DVD and be increasingly successful in locating the evidence that may be needed for criminal prosecution or corporate fact finding. The job of the computer forensic examiner becomes easier and more efficient with the overall knowledge of how to approach the examination of these portable media as well as having the tools to unlock those files that perpetrators may think are safely hidden on CDs and DVDs.
Synopsis
CD and DVD Forensics will take the reader through all facets of handling, examining, and processing CD and DVD evidence for computer forensics. At a time where data forensics is becoming a major part of law enforcement and prosecution in the public sector, and corporate and system security in the private sector, the interest in this subject has just begun to blossom.
CD and DVD Forensics is a how to book that will give the reader tools to be able to open CDs and DVDs in an effort to identify evidence of a crime. These tools can be applied in both the public and private sectors. Armed with this information, law enforcement, corporate security, and private investigators will be able to be more effective in their evidence related tasks. To accomplish this the book is divided into four basic parts: (a) CD and DVD physics dealing with the history, construction and technology of CD and DVD media, (b) file systems present on CDs and DVDs and how these are different from that which is found on hard disks, floppy disks and other media, (c) considerations for handling CD and DVD evidence to both recover the maximum amount of information present on a disc and to do so without destroying or altering the disc in any way, and (d) using the InfinaDyne product CD/DVD Inspector to examine discs in detail and collect evidence.
*This is the first book addressing using the CD/DVD Inspector product in a hands-on manner with a complete step-by-step guide for examining evidence discs
* See how to open CD's and DVD'd and extract all the crucial evidence they may contain
* Included free is a trial version of author's market leading software "CD/DVD Inspector"
About the Author
Paul Crowley is the founder and lead developer at InfinaDyne. InfinaDyne is one of a small number of companies publishing software specifically targetted at the forensic examiner. He has been working in the software development field since 1975. His career includes experience that spans computer hardware from the very smallest home video game console to the largest IBM mainframes. Paul began working with CD recording technology in 1994 and is one of a small number of respected authorities on this technology. The first CD data recovery software product was written by Paul and has led the market for such tools since 1997. InfinaDyne has been offering CD and DVD Forensics training classes since 2005 and has held classes in the US and Australia. Attendees at these classes have included members of the FBI, US Department of Defense, and the Australian Federal Police.
Paul Crowley is the founder and lead developer at InfinaDyne.