SIFT

The SIFT Workstation forensic toolkit is a freely available set of tools for forensic analysis of computers and networks. And it comes highly recommended.

Although the commercial tools maintain advantages over SIFT in some areas, the free SIFT tool exceeds the capabilities of the commercial tools in other areas. “Even if SIFT cost tens of thousands of dollars,” says, Alan Paller, director of research at SANS, “it would be a very competitive product.” At no cost, it should be part of the portfolio in every organization that has skilled forensics analysts.

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