Conducting Memory Forensics with Volatility When to Use - An endpoint has been contained during an active incident and volatile evidence must be preserved - EDR alerts suggest process injection or fileless malware that only exists in memory - Encryption keys need to be recovered from a ransomware-infected system before shutdown - Credential theft (Mimikatz, LSASS dumping) is suspected and evidence must be confirmed - A rootkit or kernel-level compromise is suspected and disk-based analysis is insufficient Do not use for analyzing disk images or file system artifacts; use disk forensics tools…