CAINE


 CAINE :

CAINE (Computer Aided INvestigative Environment) is an Italian GNU/Linux live distribution created as a Digital Forensics project

Currently the project manager is Nanni Bassetti (Bari - Italy).

CAINE offers a complete forensic environment that is organized to integrate existing software tools as software modules and to provide a friendly graphical interface.

The main design objectives that CAINE aims to guarantee are the following:


an interoperable environment that supports the digital investigator during the four phases of the digital investigation

a user-friendly graphical interface

user-friendly tools

We recommend you to read the page on the CAINE policies carefully.

CAINE represents fully the spirit of the Open Source philosophy, because the project is completely open, everyone could take on the legacy of the previous developer or project manager. The distro is open source, the Windows side is freeware and, the last but not least, the distro is installable, thus giving the opportunity to rebuild it in a new brand version, so giving a long life to this project .

What is CAINE?

CAINE (Computer Aided Investigative Environment? provides tight security and built-in forensic investigation tools. CAINE is built around a complete investigative environment that is organized to integrate existing software tools as software modules and to provide a friendly graphical user interface. Currently, the project manager of CAINE Linux is Nanni Bassetti (Bari – Italy).


What is the Purpose behind the Introduction of CAINE?

The main objectives that CAINE aims to guarantee are the following:


Its operation environment is designed to provide all the forensic tools that are required to perform digital forensic investigative processes like preservation, collection, examination, and analysis.

It provides a user-friendly graphical user interface with user -friendly forensic tools.

It can be booted from the removable media like flash drives or from an optical disk and run in memory.

It can be easily installed onto a physical or a virtual system.

In LIVE mode, CAINE can operate on data storage objects without having to boot up the operating system.

What are the Pre-requisites for getting started with CAINE?

In this section, we will have a look at some of the system requirements to get started with CAINE.


Since CAINE is based on Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit, using Linux Kernel 4.4.0-97, if you want to run CAINE as a live disc then CAINE system requirements are similar to Ubuntu 16.04.

2GHz dual-core processor or better.

2GB system memory.

It can run on a physical system or a virtual environment like VMWare Workstation.

What are the supported platforms?

CAINE Linux has several software applications, libraries, and scripts that can be used in a command-line or graphical environment to perform forensic activities. It can perform data analysis on the data objects created on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and some Unix Systems. One of the interesting features of CAINE Linux version 9.0 is that it sets all the block devices to read-only mode by default.


CAINE Look and Feel

In this section, we will drive you through the Look and Feel of the CAINE Linux in GUI Mode.


CAINE Linux uses only the MATE desktop environment, which is a fork of the GNOME 2 desktop environment.

MATE keeps the no-frills and no-nonsense user interface of the pre-GNOME 3 upgrade, thus a good choice for a fast and reliable desktop.

The CAINE and MATE combination leads to the smooth interface and straightforward desktop.

The default setting of full panel bar transparency blends right into the desktop’s background.

Application icons can be easily pinned to the panel or desktop for quick launch.

You can add the virtual workplace switcher applet to the dock for easy point-and-switch access.

Major Forensic Tools

CAINE Linux provides a variety of software tools that can be used for memory, database, network, and forensic analysis. The File Image System analysis of File Systems like FAT/ExFAT, NTFS, Ext2, Ext3, HFS, and ISO 9660 is possible using command-line mode as well as Graphical user interface mode. CAINE Linux support disk imaging in raw(dd) and expert witness/ advanced file format also. Disk images may be obtained using the tools that built-in the CAINE or using third-party tools like EnCase, or Forensic Tool Kit.

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