The growth in networking connectivity, complexity and activity has been accompanied by an increase in the number of crimes committed within networks, forcing both enterprises and law enforcement to undertake highly specialized investigations. Forensic analysis, the methodical investigation of a crime scene, presents special difficulties in the virtual world. What is problematic for an investigator to do within a computer, making sense out of fragile digital data arranged in obscure and complex ways, can be almost impossible within the significantly larger digital context of the network. Forensic analysis of network traffic is rarely conclusive by itself, but a wide variety of network analysis, intrusion management and specialty products are making it increasingly practical to draw useful conclusions about the details of network-based incidents.
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