VMworld and Forensics
In discussions with backup companies about digital forensics I discovered some useful items. Specifically that full VMDK backups may be forensically sound and that there is a way to dump the memory of a VM before you kill it like pulling the plug.
Thoughts on Forensics
Forensic Science has yet to catch up with the Virtualization Market. There are some aspects of Forensics that are possible today but when you talk about large virtual infrastructures with TBs of storage, forensics can be difficult to say the least. Here is some help to speed up gathering of a virtual machine for forensic analysis.
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