From the course: Cybersecurity Foundations: Computer Forensics

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Forensic data analysis

Forensic data analysis

- [Instructor] Digital forensics investigators spend most of their time analyzing their data. Data analysis is the culmination of a forensics investigation process. All your work for preparing, preserving, and acquiring data is essentially for making the analysis step possible. Analyzing data involves lots of searching and indexing is a technique that helps accelerate the search process. All major digital forensics products use indexing to improve their speed. Autopsy is an open source digital suite. It comes with powerful search and report generation features. It's nice that you can download Autopsy for free and try it for learning purposes. Commercial forensic software suites are pretty expensive and even cost prohibitive for individuals. If you work for a small organization with limited budget or have personal needs to conduct digital forensics investigations, Autopsy is a perfect tool for that. We have a couple…

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