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Guide to Computer Forensics and Investigations 006 Edition, Kindle Edition

by Bill Nelson (Author), Amelia Phillips (Author), Christopher Steuart (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Master the skills you need to conduct a successful digital investigation with Nelson/Phillips/Steuart's GUIDE TO COMPUTER FORENSICS AND INVESTIGATIONS, Sixth Edition--the most comprehensive forensics resource available. Providing clear instruction on the tools and techniques of the trade, it walks you through every step of the computer forensics investigation--from lab setup to testifying in court. The authors also thoroughly explain how to use current forensics software. The text includes the most up-to-date coverage available of Linux and Macintosh, virtual machine software such as VMware and Virtual Box, Android, mobile devices, handheld devices, cloud forensics, email, social media and the Internet of Anything. Appropriate for learners new to the field, it is also an excellent refresher and technology update for professionals in law enforcement, investigations or computer security.
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Amelia Phillips is a tenured faculty member at Highline College in Seattle, Washington. After serving as an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she worked with e-commerce websites and began training in computer forensics to prevent credit card numbers from being stolen from sensitive e-commerce databases. Dr. Phillips designed certificate and AAS programs for community colleges in e-commerce, network security, computer forensics and data recovery. She designed the Bachelor of Applied Science in Cybersecurity and Forensics, which was approved in 2014. A Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Phillips taught at Polytechnic of Namibia in 2005 and 2006 and continues her work with developing nations, traveling there frequently. She earned BS degrees in astronautical engineering and archaeology and an MBA in technology management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in computer security from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Christopher K. Steuart is a practicing attorney maintaining a general litigation practice, with experience in information systems security for a Fortune 50 company and the U.S. Army. He is also an honorary life member and the former general counsel for Computer Technology Investigators Northwest. He has presented computer forensics seminars in regional and national forums, including the American Society for Industrial Security, Agora, Northwest Computer Technology Crime Analysis Seminar and CTIN.

Bill Nelson has worked for two global Fortune 100 companies in information technologies for over 32 years, including 18-plus years in corporate digital forensics and information security. In addition, he has taught digital forensics classes at the City University of Seattle and the University of Washington's Professional and Continuing Education Department for 10 years. He also has experience in Automated Fingerprint Identification System software engineering and reserve police work. A former president and vice president for Computer Technology Investigators Northwest, he routinely lectures at several colleges and universities in the Pacific Northwest.

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Christopher K. Steuart is a practicing attorney and one of the founding shareholders of IT Forensics, Inc. He is licensed in the State of Washington and before the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. For thirteen years he was a computer forensic examiner and information security specialist for the Boeing Company. He served as an Electronic Warfare Officer and Special Security Officer (SSO) in the United States Army and the United States Army Reserve.

He has presented classes and seminars including continuing legal education on physical security of information systems, investigation of criminal misuse of computers. He has presented at regional and national forums: the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS), Agora, Northwest Computer Technology Crime Analysis Seminar (NCT), Computer Technology Investigators Network (CTIN) and he has been an adjunct faculty member of City University.

Mr. Steuart is a co-author (with H. William “Bill” Nelson and Amelia Phillips of Guide to Computer Forensics and Investigations 1st-4th Edition. In addition, he is a co-author with Amelia Phillips, Ronald Godfrey and Christine Brown of the new textbook E-Discovery: An Introduction to Digital Evidence. He also co-author with David C. Eisler of The Digital Forensic Expert's-Guide to Success In Cross-Examination.

He has been interviewed on the subject of computer forensics on National Public Radio's Morning Edition. He consulted in support of the defense and advised the defense computer forensics team in United States v. Sami Omar Al-Hussayen. He is currently an instructor in the University of Washington Digital Forensics Certificate Program.

He is a graduate of Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree and of Drake University Law School with a Juris Doctor degree.The staff of IT Forensics Inc. has a record of excellence in digital forensics from our predecessor organization, the Law Office of Christopher K. Steuart. Our extensive experience in; information technology security, electronic evidence recovery and analysis, and expert witness testimony have been applied with a Fortune 10 corporation and government services.

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BLUF: Can't read it. As a grad student, trying to muddle through blurry text on a technical and professional purposed book/manual (that's expensive as hell to boot) is poor execution on the publisher side, period. Destroys the eyes after a while. Appearance is much better on an iPad, but if most of your work is done on Desktop or Laptop (I have tried reading on a multiple of these platforms and screens with same effect), it's better to look elsewhere to get a copy of this book as this Kindle version is sub-par.
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Robert M. Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars Just what I needed.
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2020
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Very helpful. Just the right book for my Computer Forensics course.
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Maricela V
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Shape
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2020
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Good Shape, great book
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Nick
4.0 out of 5 stars Chapters are too long
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2023
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When I'm not under a deadline, I don't mind long chapters... But this book really puts the pressure on with 90 page chapters and have to do 2-3 a week. Doesn't work with other courses or having a job/living on your own with life chores. A lot of unnecessary information, like Linux guides and whatnot. Linux is useful, but rarely used anymore.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Book worked as expected pages turned and none missing. HA
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2019
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Arrived on time. This product is a book all pages attached.
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John Prevost
5.0 out of 5 stars CHFI. Helpful book
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2020
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Interesting book
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Abby Carter
1.0 out of 5 stars If a textbook could inflict real, physical torture, this one would.
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2020
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This textbook has been the bane of my existence for the past three months.

This textbook teaches you how to do very technical and complicated things in computer forensics (at least if you are a beginner like me). It goes extremely in-depth in every chapter, so if you start to feel like you understand something, it pulls the rug right out from under you a few paragraphs later. In chapter 5, you go from learning about the anatomy of a hard drive to suddenly analyzing the raw hex of a file with tiny, tiny screenshots that you have to squint your eyes to attempt to read.

If that was my only issue with the textbook I would not leave this review. The absolute WORST part of this text is the accompanying online course. This is where I have to resist going into expletives.

I understand that it is difficult to convey procedures done on a computer through a textbook alone — thus, the accompanying online course was made. This includes labs and quizzes to use for practice. Okay, great.

Every single time I do a lab I have to set aside at least 2 hours of my time, and I have to prepare for my day to be completely ruined. The labs use a VM — basically, you remotely connect to a computer in England which already has all of the software installed. However, their computers are absolute garbage. I spend half of my time waiting for the computer to load. Today I spent my entire lab with not a cursor but a blue spinning loading wheel.

Also, the labs never explain why you’re doing anything, and sometimes they neglect to tell you how to do something that it really should. For example, in chapter 8, it tells you to use ProDiscover to search for the text string “FIF.” Cool, fine. Then suddenly it says, “Now navigate to cluster AC4.” Ok, how does this connect to searching for FIF? Why am I navigating to AC4 in particular? Are we just gonna pretend I never found the FIF string or what? What a waste of my time.

THEN, I had a technical issue that I could not figure out. I tried and tried to fix it, but just could not stop the error from happening. So I sent in a help ticket to their support team. It’s been 3 days. 3 days is a LOT of time for a college student with upcoming assignments due. This is insane.

If I could tell you to not buy this textbook I would, but sadly we are all just college students stuck in the cycle of buying expensive, horrible textbooks. If you planned on reading it for fun, don’t.
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Dana Robinson
2.0 out of 5 stars Bland, archaic, and simplistic
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2020
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Most of the reviews here are either seller reviews or are complaining about the companion website. Here's one about the book's contents.

This book is terrible. I have read a LOT of programming and computer science books, and this one definitely falls in the bottom 10% when it comes to quality.

* The information is incredibly dated. There is some information on newer systems like Windows 10, but it also spends time talking about ancient things like DOS (!!!) and FAT-formatted floppy disks. I feel like the authors learned about Windows during the mid-late 90s Windows 3.1 / 95 & 98 / NT era and have only sporadically kept up to date with changes.

* A lot of the information is vague or you are directed to external websites (usually via brittle-looking links) for information that really belongs in the book.

* The vague, hand-wavy information is mixed in with a lot of highly detailed information about random topics. Sadly, there's usually not really a thorough enough treatment of these bits to make them useful. A book should either go deep on a subject or explain it superficially - not combine a weak description with a random selection of low-level trivia.

* The exercises, particularly the case projects, are either trivial or busywork. Some are incredibly vague (check out case project 5-2 for an example). Many involve writing extensively about boring things like business and legal processes. God help you if your instructor assigns a lot of these (mine did).

* The writing style is incredibly bland. You know how almost every textbook for a vocational-tech subject like automotive mechanics or welding has a couple of chapters at the beginning that talk about things like safety and government regulations? The entire book was written using that style and is about as interesting.

To sum up, this book feels like it was phoned in by bad writers who learned about the subject decades ago. There's a little useful information here, sure, but it's buried in a pile of blandly-written, archaic dreck. If you are a student or looking for a self-study resource, I highly recommend you look elsewhere. If you are an instructor, please pick a different book.
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Heather Brown
4.0 out of 5 stars Boring
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2020
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Textbooks in general are boring and this is no different. Also, very confusing material and organization of the material
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Pduke
5.0 out of 5 stars My Review
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 31, 2019
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Very very nice book written in a simple way. Very useful
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Kiri s Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars Must have for newbies of Digital Forensics
Reviewed in Australia on February 17, 2022
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If you're starting out in the world of digital forensics, or studying at Uni, then this book is a must have. It covers everything, is easy to follow, has summary points and quiz questions at the end of each chapter. It provides activities to practise your skills. I'm just starting out in the DF world as part of a career change and I think this book is superb. It covers everything you need to get you started and explains everything in a very straightforward and clear manner. It also has lots of suggestions for other resources and tools you can use.
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