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Non-GSM Mobile Device Tool Test Assertions and Test Plan

January 1, 2009
Author(s)
Richard Ayers
As mobile devices proliferate, incorporating a host of integrated features and capabilities, their use can be seen everywhere in our world today. Mobile communication devices contain a wealth of sensitive and non-sensitive information. In the investigative

A Recommendation for the Use of PIV Credentials in Physical Access Control Systems (PACS)

November 20, 2008
Author(s)
William I. MacGregor, Ketan L. Mehta, David A. Cooper, Karen A. Scarfone
This document provides best practice guidelines for integrating the PIV Card with the physical access control systems (PACS) that authenticate the cardholders in Federal facilities. Specifically, this document recommends a risk-based approach for selecting

Forensic Filtering of Cell Phone Protocols

August 27, 2008
Author(s)
Aurelien M. Delaitre, Wayne Jansen
Phone managers are non-forensic software tools designed to carry out a range of tasks for the user, such as reading and updating the contents of a phone, using one or more of the communications protocols supported by the phone. Phone managers are sometimes

Codes for the Identification of Federal and Federally-Assisted Organization

April 25, 2008
Author(s)
William C. Barker, Hildegard Ferraiolo
The Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-12 called for new standards to be adopted governing the interoperable use of identity credentials to allow physical and logical access to Federal government locations and systems. The Personal Identity

Cell Phone Forensic Tools: An Overview and Analysis Update

March 21, 2007
Author(s)
Richard Ayers, Wayne Jansen, Aurelien M. Delaitre, Ludovic Moenner
Cell phones and other handheld devices incorporating cell phone capabilities (e.g., Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) phones) are ubiquitous. Rather than just placing calls, certain phones allow users to perform additional tasks such as SMS (Short Message

PIV Card to Reader Interoperability Guidelines

December 29, 2006
Author(s)
James F. Dray Jr., April Giles, Michael Kelley, Ramaswamy Chandramouli
The purpose of this document is to present recommendations for Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card readers in the area of performance and communications characteristics to foster interoperability. This document is not intended to re-state or

Unique File Identification in the National Software Reference Library

October 24, 2006
Author(s)
Steven L. Mead
The National Software Reference Library (NSRL) provides a repository of known software, file profiles, and file signatures for use by law enforcement and other organizations involved with computer forensic investigations. This paper examines whether the

Guide to Integrating Forensic Techniques into Incident Response

September 1, 2006
Author(s)
Timothy Grance, Suzanne Chevalier, Karen A. Scarfone, Hung Dang
This publication is intended to help organizations in investigating computer security incidents and troubleshooting some information technology (IT) operational problems by providing practical guidance on performing computer and network forensics. The

Cell Phone Forensics Tools: An Overview and Analysis

October 19, 2005
Author(s)
Richard Ayers, Wayne Jansen, Nicolas Cilleros, Ronan Daniellou
Cell phones and other handheld devices incorporating cell phone capabilities (e.g., Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) phones) are ubiquitous. Rather than just placing calls, certain phones allow users to perform additional tasks such as SMS (Short Message

PDA Forensic Tools: an Overview and Analysis

August 1, 2004
Author(s)
Richard Ayers, Wayne Jansen
Adequate user authentication is a persistent problem, particularly with mobile devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), which tend to be highly personal and at the fringes of an organization's influence. Yet these devices are being used

Computer Forensics Tool Testing (CFTT)

October 1, 2003
Author(s)
James R. Lyle
The National Software Reference Library (NSRL) of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) collects software from various sources and publishes file profiles computed from this software (such as MD5 and SHA-1 hashes) as a Reference

National Software Reference Library (NSRL)

October 1, 2003
Author(s)
Barbara Guttman
The National Software Reference Library (NSRL) of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) collects software from various sources and publishes file profiles computed from this software (such as MD5 and SHA-1 hashes) as a Reference

Test Environment and Procedures for Testing SafeBack 2.18

June 1, 2003
Author(s)
James R. Lyle
This document describes the testing of SafeBack 1.18. The Test cases that were applied are described in Disk Imaging Tool Specification, Version 1.1.6.The tests were run on test systems in the Computer Forensics Tool Testing Lab at the National Institute
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