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- 5. Popular forensic software used for investigating digital evidence.
- 6. Technique used to ensure data integrity during forensic analysis.
- 7. General term for physical components, such as hard drives or smartphones, analyzed in forensics.
- 9. Procedure of assessing forensic software’s functionality before use in investigation.
- 10. Hardware tool used to prevent alteration of data during acquisition.
- 13. Windows database often analyzed using forensic software to track user activity.
- 16. Documentation ensuring evidence is handled securely and correctly.
Down
- 1. Exact copy of a storage device, often created during evidence acquisition.
- 2. Process of verifying the credibility of forensic evidence through hashing.
- 3. Testing a forensic tool against known data sets to evaluate its performance.
- 4. Process of ensuring forensic tools produce accurate and reliable results.
- 8. Tool used for analyzing memory dumps in forensic investigations.
- 11. Value used to verify data integrity, often generated during validation.
- 12. Forensic software known for file system and registry analysis.
- 14. Open-source digital forensics tool for investigating disks and file systems.
- 15. Process of creating a bit-by-bit copy of a storage device.