Windows Systems and Artifacts in Digital Forensics, Part I: Registry

Sept. 25, 2013

Learning about artifacts in Windows is crucial for digital forensics examiners, as Windows accounts for most of the traffic in the world (91.8 of traffic comes from computers using Windows as their operating system as of 2013) and examiners will most likely encounter Windows and will have to collect evidence from it in almost all cyber-crime cases. Below, we will discuss several places from which evidence may be gathered and ways to collect information from Windows.