Incident Response for Windows. Adapt effective strategies for managing sophisticated cyberattacks targeting Windows systems

Anatoly Tykushin, Svetlana Ostrovskaya, Dmitry Volkov

Cybersecurity threats are constantly evolving, posing serious risks to organizations. Incident Response for Windows, by cybersecurity experts Anatoly Tykushin and Svetlana Ostrovskaya, provides a practical hands-on guide to mitigating threats in Windows environments, drawing from their real-world experience in incident response and digital forensics.Designed for cybersecurity professionals, IT administrators, and digital forensics practitioners, the book covers the stages of modern cyberattacks, including reconnaissance, infiltration, network propagation, and data exfiltration. It takes a step-by-step approach to incident response, from preparation and detection to containment, eradication, and recovery. You will also explore Windows endpoint forensic evidence and essential tools for gaining visibility into Windows infrastructure. The final chapters focus on threat hunting and proactive strategies to identify cyber incidents before they escalate.By the end of this book, you will gain expertise in forensic evidence collection, threat hunting, containment, eradication, and recovery, equipping them to detect, analyze, and respond to cyber threats while strengthening your organization's security posture

Practical Memory Forensics. Jumpstart effective forensic analysis of volatile memory

Svetlana Ostrovskaya, Oleg Skulkin

Memory Forensics is a powerful analysis technique that can be used in different areas, from incident response to malware analysis. With memory forensics, you can not only gain key insights into the user's context but also look for unique traces of malware, in some cases, to piece together the puzzle of a sophisticated targeted attack.Starting with an introduction to memory forensics, this book will gradually take you through more modern concepts of hunting and investigating advanced malware using free tools and memory analysis frameworks. This book takes a practical approach and uses memory images from real incidents to help you gain a better understanding of the subject and develop the skills required to investigate and respond to malware-related incidents and complex targeted attacks. You'll cover Windows, Linux, and macOS internals and explore techniques and tools to detect, investigate, and hunt threats using memory forensics. Equipped with this knowledge, you'll be able to create and analyze memory dumps on your own, examine user activity, detect traces of fileless and memory-based malware, and reconstruct the actions taken by threat actors.By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed in memory forensics and have gained hands-on experience of using various tools associated with it.