The program will help fortify the application knowledge in digital forensics for forensic analysts, cybercrime investigators, cyber defense forensic analysts, incident responders, information technology auditors, malware analysts, security consultants, and chief security officers. The program equips candidates with the necessary skills to proactively investigate complex security threats, allowing them to investigate, record, and report cybercrimes to prevent future attacks.

Course Focus and Acquired Skills:

• The computer forensic investigation process and the various legal issues involved
• Evidence searching, seizing and acquisition methodologies in a legal and forensically sound manner
• Types of digital evidence, rules of evidence, digital evidence examination process, and electronic crime and digital evidence consideration by crime category
• Roles of the first responder, first responder toolkit, securing and evaluating electronic crime scene, conducting preliminary interviews, documenting electronic crime scene, collecting and preserving electronic evidence, packaging and transporting electronic evidence, and reporting the crime scene
• Setting up a computer forensics lab and the tools involved in it
• Various file systems and how to boot a disk
• Gathering volatile and non-volatile information from Windows
• Data acquisition and duplication rules
• Validation methods and tools required
• Recovering deleted files and deleted partitions in Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
• Forensic investigation using AccessData FTK and EnCase
• Steganography and its techniques
• Steganalysis and image file forensics
• Password cracking concepts, tools, and types of password attacks
• Investigating password protected files
• Types of log capturing, log management, time synchronization, and log capturing tools
• Investigating logs, network traffic, wireless attacks, and web attacks
• Tracking emails and investigate email crimes
• Mobile forensics and mobile forensics software and hardware tools
• Writing investigative reports