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Welcome to Mark Baggett - In Depth Defense

I am the course Author of SANS SEC573 Automating Information Security with Python. Check back frequently for updated tools and articles related to course material.




Don't forget to wipe!

A while back I assisted the FBI in the collection of evidence of a now convicted sexual offender. The guy had a hard drive full of child porn. My customer had suspicions that an employee in a remote office was accessing inappropriate material on their work computer and asked that I investigate it remotely. After finding one photo of a very young girl among a collection of "normal" porn and discussing it with my customer, I immediately dial my contact with the FBI. (Good contacts are ESSENTIAL don't wait until you need them to try and make them.) Although the young girl was clothed in the picture I saw, the lingerie and pose she was in was very disturbing and you just knew you didn't want to see anything else. At that point I froze; anything else that was touched remotely was altering and potentially destroying evidence on the remote drive. Within an hour the FBI was at the office. He used my machine and the access I had gained to briefly verify the contents