Memory Acquisition in Digital Forensics and Incident Response

The course covers the following learning outcomes and goals: understanding memory acquisition in digital forensics and incident response, exploring memory forensics and its significance, identifying challenges in memory acquisition, examining various memory acquisition options and hardware, learning software memory acquisition techniques and tools, understanding virtual machine memory acquisition, crash dumps, hibernation files, cold-boot attacks, and anti-forensic methods. The course teaches individual skills such as conducting memory acquisition using hardware like PCile and FireWire, analyzing address space layout, utilizing software tools for memory acquisition, and addressing anti-forensic techniques. The teaching method of the course includes video lectures from Louisville Infosec 2015, providing theoretical knowledge and practical insights into memory acquisition in digital forensics and incident response. The intended audience for this course includes digital forensics professionals, incident response analysts, cybersecurity specialists, law enforcement personnel, and anyone interested in understanding memory acquisition techniques for investigative purposes.