Digital Triage Forensics: Processing the Digital Crime Scene
Digital Triage Forensics: Processing the Digital Crime Scene provides the tools, training, and techniques in Digital Triage Forensics (DTF), a procedural model for the investigation of digital crime scenes including both traditional crime scenes and the more complex battlefield crime scenes. The DTF is used by the U.S. Army and other traditional police agencies for current digital forensic applications. The tools, training, and techniques from this practice are being brought to the public in this book for the first time. Now corporations, law enforcement, and consultants can benefit from the unique perspectives of the experts who coined Digital Triage Forensics. The text covers the collection of digital media and data from cellular devices and SIM cards. It also presents outlines of pre- and post- blast investigations.

This book is divided into six chapters that present an overview of the age of warfare, key concepts of digital triage and battlefield forensics, and methods of conducting pre/post-blast investigations. The first chapter considers how improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have changed from basic booby traps to the primary attack method of the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also covers the emergence of a sustainable vehicle for prosecuting enemy combatants under the Rule of Law in Iraq as U.S. airmen, marines, sailors, and soldiers perform roles outside their normal military duties and responsibilities. The remaining chapters detail the benefits of DTF model, the roles and responsibilities of the weapons intelligence team (WIT), and the challenges and issues of collecting digital media in battlefield situations. Moreover, data collection and processing as well as debates on the changing role of digital forensics investigators are explored.

This book will be helpful to forensic scientists, investigators, and military personnel, as well as to students and beginners in forensics.

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Digital Triage Forensics: Processing the Digital Crime Scene
Digital Triage Forensics: Processing the Digital Crime Scene provides the tools, training, and techniques in Digital Triage Forensics (DTF), a procedural model for the investigation of digital crime scenes including both traditional crime scenes and the more complex battlefield crime scenes. The DTF is used by the U.S. Army and other traditional police agencies for current digital forensic applications. The tools, training, and techniques from this practice are being brought to the public in this book for the first time. Now corporations, law enforcement, and consultants can benefit from the unique perspectives of the experts who coined Digital Triage Forensics. The text covers the collection of digital media and data from cellular devices and SIM cards. It also presents outlines of pre- and post- blast investigations.

This book is divided into six chapters that present an overview of the age of warfare, key concepts of digital triage and battlefield forensics, and methods of conducting pre/post-blast investigations. The first chapter considers how improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have changed from basic booby traps to the primary attack method of the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also covers the emergence of a sustainable vehicle for prosecuting enemy combatants under the Rule of Law in Iraq as U.S. airmen, marines, sailors, and soldiers perform roles outside their normal military duties and responsibilities. The remaining chapters detail the benefits of DTF model, the roles and responsibilities of the weapons intelligence team (WIT), and the challenges and issues of collecting digital media in battlefield situations. Moreover, data collection and processing as well as debates on the changing role of digital forensics investigators are explored.

This book will be helpful to forensic scientists, investigators, and military personnel, as well as to students and beginners in forensics.

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Overview

Digital Triage Forensics: Processing the Digital Crime Scene provides the tools, training, and techniques in Digital Triage Forensics (DTF), a procedural model for the investigation of digital crime scenes including both traditional crime scenes and the more complex battlefield crime scenes. The DTF is used by the U.S. Army and other traditional police agencies for current digital forensic applications. The tools, training, and techniques from this practice are being brought to the public in this book for the first time. Now corporations, law enforcement, and consultants can benefit from the unique perspectives of the experts who coined Digital Triage Forensics. The text covers the collection of digital media and data from cellular devices and SIM cards. It also presents outlines of pre- and post- blast investigations.

This book is divided into six chapters that present an overview of the age of warfare, key concepts of digital triage and battlefield forensics, and methods of conducting pre/post-blast investigations. The first chapter considers how improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have changed from basic booby traps to the primary attack method of the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also covers the emergence of a sustainable vehicle for prosecuting enemy combatants under the Rule of Law in Iraq as U.S. airmen, marines, sailors, and soldiers perform roles outside their normal military duties and responsibilities. The remaining chapters detail the benefits of DTF model, the roles and responsibilities of the weapons intelligence team (WIT), and the challenges and issues of collecting digital media in battlefield situations. Moreover, data collection and processing as well as debates on the changing role of digital forensics investigators are explored.

This book will be helpful to forensic scientists, investigators, and military personnel, as well as to students and beginners in forensics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781597495967
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Publication date: 06/28/2010
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Stephen Frank Pearson was born in Aylesbury, England in 1963 and has been involved with Digital Media Exploitation since the early 1990's. Stephen served in the United States Army as a Military Policeman for over 21 years. During this time, Stephen wrote and compiled numerous texts that are still used today to train the Army’s Military Police and Investigators. Stephen's last military assignment was Non Commissioned Officer in Charge of the Advanced Technology Criminal Investigations Division at the Military Police School, Ft Leonard Wood, Missouri. After retiring, Stephen accepted a position as chief of detectives at the Pulaski County Sheriffs Office in Missouri. Stephen opened the first Digital Forensic Lab at the Sheriff's Department which was responsible for numerous convictions. Stephen, during this time, also started and ran the High Tech Crime Institute. In 2006 Stephen was contracted by the National Ground Intelligence Center to teach and design a course in Digital Triage Forensics for the new WIT teams deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan. To date, Stephen continues to teach and design new procedures that enable small team units to gather and exploit Digital Media from the Battle Space. Stephen currently lives in Palm Harbor, Florida and is the CEO of the High Tech Crime Institute.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Introduction ix

About the Authors xiii

Chapter 1 New Age of Warfare: How Digital Forensics is Reshaping Today's Military 1

Yesterday's "Booby Trap" Is Today's IED 1

The Invention of WIT 4

"CSI" Baghdad: Today's Intelligence Is Tomorrows Evidence 8

Actionable Intelligence and Its Effect on the Battlefield 9

Soldiers to "Battlefield Cops" 9

Summary 11

References 11

Chapter 2 Digital Triage Forensics and Battlefield Forensics 13

Introduction 13

DTF and Battlefield Forensics 13

How does Evidence go from the Battlefield to the Lab? 21

Five Levels of Exploitation of WIT Materials 22

Summary 23

References 24

Chapter 3 Conducting Pre/Postblast Investigations 25

Introduction 25

WITs Role Within the EOD Team 25

Premission Preparations 26

Scene Safety 28

On Scene IED Analysis 30

Photograph! Photograph! Photograph! 36

Preblast Investigative Steps 40

Postblast Investigative Steps 48

Detainee Operations as it Pertains to WIT 53

Summary 56

Chapter 4 Using the DTF Model to Process Digital Media 57

The changing location of Digital Evidence containers 57

What hardware do I need to conduct a Cradle-to-Grave Battlefield investigation? 58

Characteristics of Digital Media 64

Stephen's Quick and Dirty Guide to Understanding Digital Forensics 65

Brief Overview of Digital Storage Concepts 72

Processing Digital Media using the Digital Triage Forensic Model 92

Summary 142

Chapter 5 Using the DTF Model to Collect and Process Cell Phones and SIM Cards 145

Cellular Devices Are Replacing the Laptop 145

Proprietary Cell Phone Tools versus Nonproprietary Cell Phone Tools 148

Freeware and Shareware as Cell Phone Forensic/Analysis Tools 152

Using Cross Validation with your Tools 154

Triage Processing of Cellular Devices 155

Using the MFC to identify the Cellular Device 157

Collection Concerns with Cellular Devices 163

Don't Push That Button 166

Isolating the Cellular Device 167

Using the HTCI Isolation Chamber 168

Processing the Cell Phone 180

Summary 249

Chapter 6 The Changing Role of a Digital Forensic Investigator 251

The Solution 251

Implementation 254

Glossary 257

Index 259

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