What you'll learn:
- Understand what the Windows Prefetch artifact is
- Be able to explain the artifact
- Know what types of user behavior affects the artifact
- Know how to conduct validation testing
- Understand how to properly interpret Prefetch results
- Know how to use several freely available Prefetch forensic tools
Welcome to the Surviving Digital Forensics series. This class is focused on helping you become a better computer forensic examiner by understanding how to use Windows Prefetch data to prove file use and knowledge - all in about one hour.
As with previous SDF classes you will learn by doing. The class begins withWindows prefetch fundamentals and will providean understanding of how the artifactworks. Then students delve into severalvalidation exercises to observehow user drivenactivity affects Windows prefetch evidence. The last section teaches students how to use several freely availableDFIR community built forensic tools to examine prefetch evidence. By the end of the class students will have a solid understanding of how to use theWindows prefetch asevidence, understand thetypes of user behaviors that affect the prefetchand know how to use Windows prefetch forensic tools.
Expert and novice computer forensic examiners alike will gain from this class. Since we are doing it the SDF way we are going to teach you real computer forensic skills that you can apply using our method or with any forensic tool you choose. Therefore you are not just going to learn about the Windows prefetch but you will learn a method you can use to answer questions that may come up in the future.
A PC running Windows 8or Windows 10is required for this course. The forensic tools we use are all freely available, so beyond your laptop andoperating system all you need is the desire to become a better computer forensic examiner.
