EnCase is the shared technology within a suite of digital investigations products by Guidance Software (acquired by OpenText in 2017[2]). The software comes in several products designed for forensic, cyber security, security analytics, and e-discovery use. EnCase is traditionally used in forensics to recover evidence from seized hard drives. It allows the investigator to conduct in-depth analysis of user files to collect evidence such as documents, pictures, internet history and Windows Registry information.
EnCase contains tools for several areas of the digital forensic process; acquisition, analysis and reporting. The software also includes a scripting facility called EnScript with various API's for interacting with evidence.
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The acquisition of Guidance is expected to complement the OpenText Discovery portfolio of software and services that provide search, extraction, classification, review and analysis of information, and to broaden OpenText Information Security capabilities through the addition of digital investigation, forensic security, and endpoint solutions.
The reporting phase includes a detailed description of the steps taken throughout the digital forensics process, the digital evidence uncovered, and the conclusions reached based on the results of the digital forensics process and the evidence revealed (see Module 6 on Practical Aspects of Cybercrime Investigations and Digital Forensics for further information). Artificial intelligence (i.e., "computational models of human behaviour and thought processes that are designed to operate rationally and intelligently"; Maras, 2017, p. 7) can be used to produce reliable results. However, the use of artificial intelligence could pose problems in the analysis and presentation phases of the digital forensic process because experts may not be able to explain how these results were obtained (Maras and Alexandrou, 2018).
Anti-forensics (or anti-digital forensics) is a term used to describe the "tools and techniques [used] to remove, alter, disrupt, or otherwise interfere with evidence of criminal activities on digital systems, similar to how criminals would remove evidence from crime scenes in the physical realm" (Conlan, Baggili, and Brietinger, 2016, p. 67). Anti-forensics includes data hiding (e.g., encryption, discussed further Module 10 on Privacy and Data Protection, and steganography, the practice of concealing secret information, images, audio recordings, videos, and other content within non-secret information, images, audio recordings, videos, and other content), artefact and/or digital device wiping (through, for example, software designed to delete specific or all data, and/or device content), and digital trail obfuscation (e.g., spoofing tactics, discussed in Module 2 on General Types of Cybercrime; data misidentification, misinformation and/or fabrication; and the use of proxy servers, which acts as a gateway or an intermediary between requests from Internet-connected digital devices to other servers) (Shanmugam, Powell, and Owens, 2011; Maras, 2014; Brunton and Nissenbaum, 2016; Liskiewicz, Reischuk, and Wolfel, 2017). The use of anti-forensics techniques challenges digital forensics efforts (Caviglione, Wendzel, and Mazurczyk, 2017).
Guidance Software is a leader in the forensics tools and services arena. It is well-known and highly used EnCase Forensics software that helps professionals acquire data from many different types of devices, complete disk-level examinations and produce reports of findings. The company also sells software for remote investigations (EnCase Endpoint Investigator), eDiscovery, risk management and endpoint security.
The release of iVe 2.0 is more than just a software release, it is a user driven monumental move forward and brings investigators at all levels into the world of vehicle forensics. Along with the 2.0 iVe Software release, we are also releasing version 2.0 of the Mobile app and announcing the new 2.0 hardware kit. Here are the highlights for each of the tools in the ecosystem.
Regardless of whether the matter is criminal or civil, the same standards forcollecting, gathering and ultimately presenting theevidence should be followed.Various methods are available and most of these are determined by the softwarefor the collection andanalysis of this evidence. Many investigators these daysuse special forensic software such as EnCase, published by Guidance Software,Forensic Tool Kit, published by Access Data, or Internet Evidence Finder,published by Magnet Forensics and NUIX, among others. Thesetools allow aninvestigator to obtain an evidential standard image, which is the collectionphase of data from a hard disk drive(HDD). Hardware write-blocking facilitiesallow an evidential standard image to be taken quickly, using the MicrosoftWindows environmentto take maximum advantage of the memory and processor poweravailable on modern systems.
The purpose of taking an image is to obtain an unintrusive exact clone of theHDD showing that the drive has not been interfered within any way. The modernimaging process also extracts every piece of physical digital evidence that isavailable for extraction fromthe magnetic media. The electronic media refers tothe platters on the HDD, a CD or floppy disk and even extends to tapes, memorysticks and cards. When obtaining the image with software like EnCase, theoriginal data once placed in these evidence files cannotbe altered in any way.It is called EnCase because it actually encases the entire physical contents ofthe HDD into a file that isencoded by the application itself.
The purpose behind this is to ensure that the contents cannot be viewedwithout the forensic software. The imaged drive through thisprocess is placedinto what is determined to be an evidence file. To reiterate, the imagingprocess provides a protected copy ofthe entire physical drive, including thedeleted and unused areas and the original contents, and this copy cannot bemodified oraltered by an investigator. This provides protection for theinvestigator and also guarantees that the evidence has not been alteredortampered with in any way.
Presenting evidence in a manner that is comprehensible to the court mayrequire an explanation of the method used. This is of coursethe final componentof the computer forensic process: the presentation of the evidence in court,whether it be by producing log filesin hard copy, actually demonstrating theprocess of the forensic software through the use of electronic projectors hookedup to acomputer, or simply by verbal description.
A forensic computer application used by investigators. It contains a full suite of features for analysis, bookmarking and reporting. It was developed by Guidance Software, a company that was in September 2017 acquired by OpenText. 2ff7e9595c
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