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)