How to set up a digital forensics lab | Cyber Work Hacks

Infosec Skills author and Paraben founder and CEO Amber Schroader talks about how to quickly and inexpensively set up your own home digital forensics lab.

0:00 - Creating your digital forensics lab
1:00 - Benefits of your own digital forensics lab
1:40 - Space needed for digital forensics lab
2:30 - Essential hardware needed for a forensics lab
5:01 - Important forensic lab upgrades
5:42 - Running your forensics lab
6:51 - Forensic lab projects
7:35 - Getting into forensic labs
8:04 - Outro

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[shellz]

For at home labs, NEVER give out your home address. Setup a mail box, go once per week and get the devices.

[akisora]

Can you do a video on some free or small cost forensic tools for home and non profit org?

[adamtparker]

Love the Zoom green screens😅 But seriously who can I contact at Google to get a copy of the original video as to track down MAC info from the presenters?

[zulqwvm]

some violation of the kid's privacy there, but thanks for the vid :)

[JessSuarez]

I was excited to watch this, but it seems she excluded all who don't have a home office. Thanks anyway.

[rohitgoel]

Don't we need any certification done through govt. Agency to certify lab as approved digital forensic lab?

[terry.chootiyaa]

*Use cloud services to setup a Forensics Lab with precautions* 😊👍

[MNDrummer]

There is no one approach to setting up a home lab. Amber covers some good stuff here.

The first thing to do is decide what type of devices/data you are going to be analyzing as this will determine the types and amount of hardware/software you need.

I would also be very careful if you are allowing open internet access on your forensic workstation. At a minimum, I would recommend limiting inbound/outbound access. Maybe consider only allowing access outbound to specific resources and rejecting all inbound connections unless they are in response to an outbound request (such as Windows updates, tool updates, etc.). Lots to think about. It only takes one wrong click to get infected or allow a bad actor in.

[gordondanson]

What are "Bread-Blockers" ? - VID-Count 3:25

[wqlib]

Please next time speak English slowly 🤝🏼