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Analysis of USB Flash Drives in a Virtual Environment

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Overview This paper is a continuation of the authors previous work in which the author proposed an approach where two environments, conventional and virtual, are used independently in the forensic analysis of computer systems. The paper discusses the use of virtual environments in the analysis of USB flash drives in computer forensics investigations. After briefly introducing general concepts of a virtual environment and software tools the paper shows how this approach can be successfully used in the analysis phase of the computer forensics investigation of portable USB flash drives. It also shows why virtualisation technique can complement but not completely replace conventional methods of computer evidence analysis.

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Publisher	Universitat Trier	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Hard Drives, Virtualization

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