Ohio Forensic Guide

Computer forensics is still such a new field, that if you are a coding geek and can create applications for computer forensics, you will be much in demand in the future and most likely able to achieve a level of financial security that most people only dream about.

On the other hand, if you are more of a “user” than a “creator”, there are many software programs already out there can make your job as a computer forensics specialist or investigator that much easier.

Here is just one such program and what it does:

X-Ways Forensics is the forensic side of WinHex and is part of a workflow model whereby all involved with an investigation can share data and collaborate. X-Ways Investigator is the sister-program that makes this possible, greatly reducing time and information loss and the logistics of information sharing.

X-Ways Forensics is able to: perform disk cloning and imaging operations.
provide complete access to images, RAIDs and to disks that are more than 2TB in size.
allow you to view and dump physical RAM, as well as the virtual memory of running processes.
perform complex data recovery and file carving operations.
cleanse the hard disk to produce “forensically sterile” media.
create file and directory catalogs for all computer media.
perform both physical and logical searches, simultaneously.
keep automatic activity/audit logs.
provide complete case management.
copy case-related files to evidence containers, retaining all the original metadata information, in order to exchange selected files with any who need it.
show pictures in a gallery view.
find pictures embedded in documents.
extract still pictures from video files.
detect skin coloration in gallery view that accelerates the search for traces of child pornography.
And much, much more!

X-Ways Forensics 15.6 is the newest version and comes complete with a User Manual that you can view before you buy and with a number of Quick Guides. X-Ways has also seen fit to provide various law enforcement agencies, government entities and companies to receive an Evaluation Version in order to determine if X-Ways Forensics and X-Ways Investigator will do everything it claims to do and makes the claim that X-Ways is one of the most reasonably priced products on the market and that it far out-performs the competition.

Only you or your IT can determine its value to your operations, but they are one worth checking out.

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