From the course: Cybersecurity Foundations: Computer Forensics

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Generating a Report

Generating a Report

- [Instructor] Having the ability to auto generate a report is a very useful feature. Investigators usually auto generate their reports and use them as a starting point. We'll use Autopsy to demonstrate how you can auto generate a digital forensics report. We already loaded our image here. First, let's mark a piece of evidence so that it appears in my report. Let's pick a file here. I'm going to choose Dreamcar.jpg again. Do a right click and then choose add file tag. Next, select tag and comment. I'm going to leave a comment here as comment. Click on okay. And now you can see a new icon next to the file. Now the evidence is marked and it's going to show up in your report for sure. Let's generate our report. Go to tools. Choose generate report. The default choice is fine, which is HTML report. Click on next. Click on next, and click on finish. And click on close. To see your report, go to reports, click…

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