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CompTIA CySA+ CS0-004 · Domain 3: Incident response & management

Memory and disk analysis basics: Volatility, FTK Imager, Autopsy

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After evidence is acquired, it has to be analyzed. CySA+ expects you to know what the common free and open-source forensic tools do and what kinds of findings they produce, rather than every command option. The three named in this objective cover different jobs: Volatility analyzes memory captures, FTK Imager acquires and previews images, and Autopsy analyzes disk images in depth.

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