Autopsy: Open Source Digital Forensics Basics Part 1

Autopsy is a free and open source digital forensics platform with many features comparable to those found in the leading commercial tools. It can be installed on Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. In part 1 in a two-part series, this webinar will start by walking through setting up a new case and exploring effective tool usage. Attendees will then learn digital forensics best practices and methods for quickly locating items of evidentiary value, based on the results of the following processes: 

• Computing an MD5 verification hash of an evidence file
• File hashing, notable HDB, irrelevant HDB
• File signature analysis
• Data carving, file system recovery
• Extract EXIF metadata
• Keyword searches
• Displaying results in various viewer components