List of Top Incident Response Tools

So you are breeched? Okay, cool off and get a hand on the most useful tools. Why? Because now all you need to do is find out what's out in the open and what not. Then you can decide how bad the breech is and also if you get good evidence, you have a chance to win. Moreover, once your customers can be alerted of the exact loss, mostly the loss is not as brutal.

We'll stick to the main focus areas we described for skill sets in IR teams. 

Note: 

  1. Tools are platform dependent eg. OS dependent i.e. Windows vs Linux
  2. Most of the list will be free or open source or both
  3. High coverage of windows tools, less for other OS(eg. Linux, Mac)
  4. Most free softwares declare download at own risk, careful check is recommended

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Major Areas Of Focus:

  • Incidence Response
  • Computer Forensics
  • Network Security
  • Secure Architecture

Incidence response tools:

First Responder's Evidence Disk ( FRED )

Knoppix STD

Windows FE ( Microsoft-free)

Coroner's Toolkit-for UNIX

MasterKey-LINUX

Pro Discover-paid basic,forensic & IR editions (ARCGroup)

Oxygen Forensic Suite (passware)

Helix( free,pro,enterprise,live versions)

Forensic Toolkit ( FTK ) or international version by Access Data

Forensic Bridges (Tableau/Guidance s/w)

First Response ( Mandiant )

Investigator Workstation & Lab ( nuix-paid )

Windows Forensic Toolchest or WFT-paid version (FoolMoon)

Computer forensics tools:

Memory & Imaging tools-

DumpIT

Guymager

Volafox-for Mac OS X

P2 explorer-free,pro paid versions ( Paraben )

FTK Imager- also for Mac OS ( Access data )

Tableau Imager (Tableau)

OSFClone & OSFMount (Passmark s/w)

Encase Forensic Imager( Guidance s/w )

RedLine (by Mandiant)

Live Ram Capturer (Belkasoft)

Disk2VHD ( Microsoft )

USB Block Writer ( DSi )

EvidenceMover (nuix  )

Carving-

PhotoRec

Mft PictureBox

Ghiro Digital Image Forensics

Defraser

File system-

HMFT

INDXParse

AnalyzeMFT

File Signature-

HeXbrowser

File Signature

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Analysis-

PDF Stream Dumper

OSForensics

SleuthKit

RegRipper

ShellBags Analysis

Digital Forensics Framework (DFF)

SANS Investigative Forensic Toolkit (SIFT)

Metadata & Passwords-

Pwdump7

Ophcrack

NTPWEdit

Ntpasswd

Cain & Abel

Encryption Analyser-free,2paid versions (passware)

InsidePro

Lophtcrack

EWF Metaeditor (4discovery)

Hashes-

HashMyFiles (Nirsoft)

Network security tools:

Network traffic-

Wireshark

Nmap

Security Onion

WinDump

NetworkMiner (NetreSec)

RSA Security Analytics freeware (RSA)

NFAT (Xplico)

Retina (Beyond Trust)

Email-

MAIL Viewer (MiTec)

Kernel OST Viewer or Kernel Outlook PST Viewer ( Kernel )

Email Migration, Email Recovery solutions (Kernel)

MBox Viewer-free,pro paid versions (Systools)

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Secure architecture tools: (includes testing tools)

Mantra- Windows,Linux,Mac (Owasp)

MetaSploit-attack simulator (Rapid7)

This is more an approach to building the architecture at the start. Apart from that, you ma use any analysis tool to keep a check. However tools will be temporary and an insecure architecture will increase your security debt.

references

http://windowsir.blogspot.in/p/foss-tools.html

http://www.e-fense.com/products.php

https://forensiccontrol.com/resources/free-software/

http://www.gfi.com/blog/18-free-security-tools-for-sysadmins/

http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-asia-02/bh-asia-02-khoo.pdf

Forensic book-Johnson 111

each product link

To add-top 10 free tools for pentest/audit http://www.security-audit.com/penetration-testing-tools/

Mobile tools will be covered separately since this is a lot already! Do you use other tools, share with us in comments below

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