It has been about a week since the challenge started, please let us know your thoughts about the Cyber Analyst Challenge is going? What has been the most challenging? What has worked well? What was most surprising? We look forward to your thoughts!

Please submit questions and comments about Phase I of the National Cyber Analyst Challenge as a response to this post. We are looking forward to your Phase I submissions and the NCAC team is ready to help.

One of the schools asked for a recommendation around memory forensics.

• The Volatility Framework – https://code.google.com/p/volatility/
• Book – http://techbus.safaribooksonline.com/book/operating-systems-and-server-administration/microsoft-windows/9781908043535/part-9-art-and-visualization/p09ch05_xhtml?query=((memory+dump))#snippet