| | |  | Software Design, Testing & Engineering | Home » » » Guide to Computer Forensics and Investigations, Second Edition | | | | | | | Description: | | This second edition has been revised to include two new running cases and updated technology coverage. Authors Phillips and Enfinger have taught computer forensics for a number of years and bring a proven, classroom approach to teaching the topics in this text, while authors Nelson and Steuart are both investigators and bring a real-world perspective to the text. Guide to Computer Forensics and Investigation presents methods to properly conduct a computer forensics investigation beginning with a discussion of ethics, while mapping to the objectives of the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS) certification. Students should have a working knowledge of hardware and operating systems to maximize their success on projects and exercises throughout the text. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Amelia Phillips | | Paperback:
| 643 pages | | Publisher:
| Course Technology | | Publication Date:
| March 03, 2005 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0619217065 | | Package Length:
| 9.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 8 reviews |
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10 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 Wrong Book to use for College Course!Apr 02, 2006
By Roger L. Crane
"hackatom"
College Professors Listen Up! This is not the book to use for teaching Computer Forensics and Investigation. I am a student in a graduate course for Computer Forensics. The fact that this book uses strictly commercial software for all the exercises is sad. Especially since there are many Open Source tools available that can be used to conduct Computer Forensics. The software included with this book requires that the buyer obtain a license from the vendor, before the software can be used. Then the license is only good for 120 days. This is not fair to the buyer especially for students, who usually have no intent of keeping the book past the end of the semester. It would be better to use a book for the class that the students would find worth keeping for the long term. Also, a book that uses Open Source tools for the examples/exercises, would provide much more value to the students. A much better book to use would be 'Incident Response and Computer Forensics, 2nd Ed' by Chri Prosise, Kevin Mandia and Matt Pepe. If this book does not suite you, then I am sure that you can find another book to use.
This book is better than the previous edition, but there are still problems with the information. As another student posted about a case project. The evidence proved the employee innocent. This is just the beginning of other problems that you will find with the book.
Buy at your own risk!
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 It is introduction to Computer ForensicsAug 27, 2006
By fatcat
This is a textbook for computer forensics. It should be introduction to computer forensics. The book discuss overview of procedures and expectations of a computer forensic investigator. The technical sections in the book uses software to find information. Unfortunately, this information is basic and review for computer nerds.
THIS IS AN UPDATE. I just finished using this book for my class. We went through all 14 chapters: the CD is missing files, and the documentation is not in-sync with the demo software. The school contacted Course and Course is still trying to figure it out (maybe version 3). I am not a legal expert so I don't know if the procedures are right, but they made sense. The book focus is the process of making the extracted information legal. All the software is either demo or limited version. Majority of the projects uses Drivespy which function uses DOS (Win 9x). Sorry, you are out-of-luck if you don't have Win 9x computer. They have limited version of Forsenics Toolkit that works on XP, but the book only uses on a few projects.
11 of 16 found the following review helpful:
Not worth the priceSep 05, 2005
By Dimitri Andreev
This book does not cover any topic well and gives incorrect advice. I wish I read the comments on earlier edition before purchase:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0619131209/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1592003826/
I had my money refunded. A good book on Amazon for forensics is Harlan Carvey book.
Poor choice in computer forensicsJan 27, 2009
By Christopher W. Brown
"Chris W. Brown"
There simply has to be better than this.
The package came without the CD. The text was very limited in useful and relevant material.
I used this text for a very good college course in computer forensics. Fortunately, the instructor was incredible. The text was used very little because it was difficult to navigate and not very relevant to the practical approach to computer forensics. Primarily, it was used as a reference guide for file systems and law.
Tools and Textbook...too many errorsApr 18, 2007
By W. Simmons
"warm & sunny"
This book was used for an intermediate forensics course and it was a terrible combination. I don't know if the authors bothered to validate their procedures with the tools, but neither worked well. We spent almost as much time trying to get the tools to work as we did actually performing investigations. Not only that, but the answers to some of the problems were incorrect. Bad choice of textbook for a college course !
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