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 the 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) Write your assignmnet in a Excel