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When collecting evidence from a live compromised system, which data should you capture first?

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  1. Disk contents
  2. Archival backup media
  3. Memory, process table and ARP cache

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  1. IETF RFC 3227, Guidelines for Evidence Collection and Archiving www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3227 Checked 2026-10-10.

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