Digital Forensics Books Catalogue

This article is your personal catalogue to apprise you about the standard books out there in the various branches of digital forensics. If formal education is not your forte - all you need is passion, time and the right resources to get the skills you desire. Dive into the books, get your hands dirty with hands-on training and become that skilled digital forensics investigator.

BASICS OF DIGITAL FORENSICS

1) Incident Response and Computer Forensics by Kevin Mandia, Chris Prosise & Matt Pepe

2) The Basics of Digital Forensics by John Sammons

3) Guide to Computer Forensics and Investigations by Bell Nelson, Amelia Philips & Chris Steuart

4) Handbook of Digital Forensics and Investigation edited by Eoghan Casey

5) Data Archaeology by Michael W. Graves

6) Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools by Cory Altheide & Harlan Carvey

7) A Practical Guide to Computer Forensics Investigations by Dr. Darren R. Hayes

8) Digital Forensics Processing and Procedures by David Watson & Andrew Jones

FILE SYSTEM FORENSICS

1) File System Forensic Analysis by Brian Carrier

MEMORY FORENSICS

1) The Art of Memory Forensics by Michael Hale Ligh, Andrew Case, Jamie Levy & Aaron Walters

NETWORK FORENSICS

1) Network Forensics - Tracking Hackers through Cyberspace by Sherri Davidoff & Jonathan Ham

2) Network Forensics by Ric Messier

WINDOWS FORENSICS

1) Windows Forensic Analysis DVD Toolkit by Harlan Carvey

2) Practical Windows Forensics by Ayman Shaaban & Konstantin Sapronov

3) Windows Forensics with Python Scripting by Dr. Philip Polstra

WINDOWS REGISTRY FORENSICS

1) Windows Registry Forensics by Harlan Carvey

2) Windows Registry Forensics with Volatility Framework by Kapil Soni

LINUX FORENSICS

1) Linux Forensics with Python and Shell Scripting by Dr. Philip Polstra

OS X FORENSICS

1) Mac OS X, iPod and iPhone Forensic Analysis DVD Toolkit by Ryan R. Kubasaik & Sean Morrissey

ANDROID FORENSICS

1) Android Forensics by Andrew Hoog

2) Learning Android Forensics by Rohit Tamma & Donnie Tindall

PYTHON FORENSICS

1) Python Forensics by Chet Hosmer

2) Python Digital Forensics Cookbook by Preston Miller & Chapin Bryce

MULTIMEDIA FORENSICS

1) Handbook of Digital Forensics of Multimedia Data and Devices edited by Anthony T.S. Ho & Shujun Li

2) Multimedia Fingerprinting Forensics for Traitor Tracing by K.J. Ray Liu, Wade Trappe, Z.Jane Wang, Min Wu & Hong Zhao

MALWARE FORENSICS

1) Malware Forensics Field Guide for Linux Systems by Cameron H. Malin, Eoghan Casey & James M. Aquilina

CLOUD FORENSICS

1) Cloud Storage Forensics by Darren Quick and Ben Martini

2) Cloud Computing and Electronic Discovery by James P. Martin & Harry Cendrowski

3) Virtualization and Forensics by Diane Barrett & Greg Kipper

DATABASE FORENSICS

1) Oracle Incident Response and Forensics by Pete Finnigan

2) SQL Server Forensic Analysis by Kevvie Fowler

 

XBOX FORENSICS

1) XBOX 360 Forensics by Steven Bolt