- Lab
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USN Journal Analysis for File Activity Tracking
In this lab, you’ll practice forensic investigations techniques. You will learn how to investigate actions performed on a Windows system by analyzing the USN Journal. When you’re finished, you’ll have the ability to identify changes that were made to a file system using data from a forensic image.
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Challenge
Getting Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Challenge
Extracting the USN Journal
In this challenge, you will learn how to extract the files required to access the USN journal.
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Using the USN Journal
In this challenge, you will learn how to identify events such as file creation, deletion, renaming, and modification to build an event timeline.
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The Last Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
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