Incident Response & Computer Forensics, Third Edition
Jason T. Luttgens
Matthew Pepe
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For Mom and Dad, who bought me my first computer when I was thirteen years olda Tandy 1000 SXin 1988.
Jason
For Christina.
Matt
About the Authors
Jason T. Luttgens, who has worked in information security for nearly 20 years, is a former Technical Director for the security consulting firm Mandiant. While at Mandiant, Jason led dozens of sensitive investigations around the globe involving industrial espionage, cardholder data theft, and other crimes within environments as large as 250,000 computer systems. Along with Jed Mitten, he created the log file analysis and visualization tool Highlighter.
Prior to Mandiant, he served in NASAs Office of Inspector General, Computer Crimes Division, as a Technical Investigator. While at NASA, Jasons duties included computer forensics, incident response, research and development of forensics solutions, forensics software and hardware testing, and training. During this time, he also contributed to significant national-level investigations, including the 9/11 investigations.
Jason is a veteran of the United States Air Force who served in the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) for four years. He was stationed at the Department of Defenses Computer Forensics Laboratory in Linthicum, Maryland, and his duties included research and development of computer crime investigative technologies. As a Team Chief for a four-person forensic analysis team, he personally performed computer forensic examinations, incident response, and provided expert courtroom testimony. Prior to his assignment with the Computer Forensics Laboratory, Jason was stationed at the 18th Communications Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan. While at the Kadena Air Base, he performed computer operations and systems analysis, network applications support, network administration, engineering, security, and training functions.
Jason holds a B.S. degree in computer science from George Mason University.
Matthew Pepe has worked in the digital forensics field since 1995, when a couple of AFOSI agents saved him from being assigned to the Pentagon. He is currently a Senior Technical Director and founder at Mandiant. At Mandiant, he has led numerous investigations, served as a subject matter expert on the odd and unique facets of Mandiants Incident Response program, and developed the forensic capabilities that are in place today.
Prior to Mandiant, Matt was a technical investigator and forensic examiner at Foundstone, Trident Data Systems, Sytex, and the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI). It was during these initial years at AFOSI that he was given the opportunity to develop analytical skills and appreciate the process by which investigative hypotheses are developed and tested. He also learned to love active termination of differential SCSI.
Matt holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from The George Washington University.
