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What if Sherlock Holmes is a Digital Detective?


In this series of the blog, I’m going to put Windows Forensics with Sherlock Holmes. In this series, Sherlock Holmes is going to teach you how to solve the cases in the Digital world.

John Watson: Hey, Sherlock how you are going to start your first digital case?
Sherlock Holmes: Let me explain you the style of investigation that I follow to solve a digital case
Main Part of Forensic investigation is Collection of Scientific evidence
·        Rule 1: Maintain Integrity.
·        Rule 2: Maintain the chain of custody. 
·        Rule 3: Document everything
·        Rule 4: Follow standard practices.
Phases of Investigation
·        Evidence Preservation.
·        Evidence Searching.
·        Event reconstruction.
Watson: Where you are going to do all this, do we have proper setup?
Sherlock: Don’t worry Pal, it just requires a simple setup


Response kit

·        CD-ROM and USB.

·        Hardware: Write Blocker.
·        Linux Distro and Windows 7.
Watson: What is the procedure to Start a investigation ?
Sherlock:
Starting an Investigation
·        Open a Case file.
·        Talk to user
·        Why did they call you?
·        Why do they think there is a problem?
·        What is known about the potential victim system.
·        Document everything.
Constable Clark: Hey Sherlock !! We had a case for you Sir …..

To be continued !!!
The outcome of this blog is to understand the basic concepts of Digital Forensics. The next blog will be on live analysis of the system.

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