AUTOPSY: Digital Forensics

A practical, methodical guide to digital forensics with Autopsy.AUTOPSY DIGITAL FORENSICS walks you through a complete investigative workflow - from preparing your lab and preserving evidence, to installing and configuring Autopsy, importing sources, and exploring files, timelines, communications, and multimedia content. Along the way, tables, screenshots, and worked examples connect the software's functions to the real questions an examiner needs to answer.Integrity verification, chain of custody, and honest documentation of limitations run through every chapter: every result is treated as something to explain and verify, not just to display. A final hands-on case ties the whole method together, from raw source to a written report.Written for students, IT professionals, and anyone building a career in digital forensics, this manual favors precision over shortcuts - teaching not just how to use a tool, but how to reason about what it actually tells you.Acquire. Analyze. Document.