Your supervisor has asked you to research current

Your supervisor has asked you to research current acquisition tools. Using your preferred Internet search engine and the vendors listed in this chapter, prepare a report containing the following information for each tool and stating which tool you would prefer to use: 

• Computer forensics vendor name 

• Acquisition tool name and latest version number 

• Features of the vendor’s product With this data collected, prepare a spreadsheet listing vendors in the rows. For the column headings, list the following features: 

• Raw format 

• Proprietary format 

• AFF format 

• Other proprietary formats the tool can read 

• Compression of image files 

• Remote network acquisition capabilities 

• Method used to validate (MD5, SHA-1, and so on)