Software that will be helpful in completing the Certified Computer Examiner (CCE)® examination, Level I:
- Norton Utilities
- Forensic Suites
- Password Recovery Tools
- A "carving" utility
- A file viewer
- Suitable wiping utilities
- Suitable checksum or hashing applications
- Utilities that make forensic copies of media
- Utilities to "capture" unallocated space
- CDR Examination Tools
- ArrowKey.com has a good CD/DVD Diagnostic tool (US$60) and an outstanding CD/DVD Inspector tool (US$349). Either tool will be adequate to complete the CCE-2 examination. There is a demo version available.
- ISOBuster
- Email Extraction Utilities
- Internet History Viewers
- Metadata Viewing Utilities - Payne Consulting
Note - not all of the utilities indicated above will be necessary to conduct the CCE examinations. Additionally, there are other utilities that work just as well as some of the above utilities. If you are currently conducting forensic examinations, your current utilities should do all that is required to complete this process.
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