Product Description

Written by FBI insiders, this updated best-seller offers a look at the legal, procedural, and technical steps of incident response and computer forensics. Including new chapters on forensic analysis and remediation, and real-world case studies, this revealing book shows how to counteract and conquer today’s hack attacks.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #131909 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 507 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Incident Response aims to teach you how to determine when an attack has occurred or is underway--they're often hard to spot--and show you what to do about it. A strong system of defences will save your systems from falling victim to published and otherwise uninventive attacks, but even the most heavily defended system can be cracked under the right conditions. Authors Kevin Mandia and Chris Prosise favour a tools--and procedures-centric approach to the subject, thereby distinguishing this book from others that catalogue attacks and methods for dealing with each. The approach is more generic and therefore better suited to dealing with newly emerging attack techniques.

Anti-attack procedures are presented with the goal of identifying, apprehending and successfully prosecuting attackers. The advice on carefully preserving volatile information, such as the list of processes active at the time of an attack, is easy to follow. The book is quick to endorse tools, the functionalities of which are described so as to inspire creative applications. Information on bad-guy behaviour is top-quality as well, giving readers knowledge of how to interpret logs and other observed phenomena. Mandia and Prosise don't--and can't--offer a foolproof guide to catching crackers in the act, but they do offer a great "best practices" guide to active surveillance. --David Wall

Topics covered: Monitoring computer systems for evidence of malicious activity and reacting to such activity when it's detected. With coverage of Windows and Unix systems as well as non-platform-specific resources like Web services and routers, the book covers the fundamentals of incident response, processes for gathering evidence of an attack and tools for making forensic work easier.

From the Publisher
Incident Response: Investigating Computer Crime describes the methods and techniques necessary to perform a professional and successful response to computer security incidents.
Provides an insider's perspective on the incident response process that has never been disclosed or published!
Includes real case scenarios with insightful tips on how to respond to computer crime incidents.
Gain FBI insider information from authors Chris Prosise and Kevin Mandia who are well-recognized network security, forensics and incident response trainers and consultants

From the Back Cover

Completely Updated with the Latest Techniques--Contains All-New Forensics Content and Real-World Scenarios

"An insider's look at the legal, procedural and technical steps of computer forensics and analysis." --Information Security magazine

"This book is an absolute must-read for anyone who plays a role in responding to computer security events." --Marc J. Zwillinger, former trial attorney with the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Computer Crime & Intellectual Property

"An excellent resource for information on how to respond to computer intrusions and conduct forensic investigations." --Network Magazine

"If your job requires you to review the contents of a computer system for evidence of unauthorized or unlawful activities, this is the book for you. The authors, through real-world experiences, demonstrate both technically and procedurally the right way to perform computer forensics and respond to security incidents." --Howard A. Schmidt, Former Special Advisor for Cyber Security, White House, and former Chief Security Officer, Microsoft Corp.

New and Updated Material:

• New real-world scenarios throughout
• The latest methods for collecting live data and investigating Windows and UNIX systems
• Updated information on forensic duplication
• New chapter on emergency network security monitoring
• New chapter on corporate evidence handling procedures
• New chapter on data preparation with details on hard drive interfaces and data storage principles
• New chapter on data extraction and analysis
• The latest techniques for analyzing network traffic
• Up-to-date methods for investigating and assessing hacker tools

Foreword by former FBI Special Agent Scott Larson

Customer Reviews

Excellent book covering all aspects of computer forensics
Written by two of Foundstone's specialists in the area of Computer Forensics, this book covers many aspects of discovering who has attempted to attack your computer systems and what to do with this information. It describes what to look for, where to look, and how exploits are exploited. Covering NT, Unix, and routers, it takes you through step-by-step monitoring for attacks, intrusion detection, and what to do with this data when you have collated it.

This is the first book that has covered this subject, hopefully there will be a lot more to follow.

An excellent book, well worth a read.

Excellent book, not too heavy and techie but not too light!
I've just started reading this and its such a good book. Theres plenty of real world examples of situations/usage of tools making this one of the best books on the incident handling topic i've read. 5*! :)

Security book which should be in your Collection
I bought this purely on the reviews that were written on Amazon and I must say that this is one the great books. It is well written in plain english, has loads of examples and clearly explains the steps needed to become a good security analyst.
Would thoroughly recommend to anyone aspiring to become a security analyst or who simply needs that bit of extra help or assistance.