Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI)
EC-Council’s Certified Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI) is the only comprehensive ANSI accredited, lab-focused program in the market that gives organizations vendor-neutral training in digital forensics. CHFI provides its attendees with a firm grasp of digital forensics, presenting a detailed and methodological approach to digital forensics and evidence analysis that also pivots around Dark Web, IoT, and Cloud Forensics. The tools and techniques covered in this program will prepare the learner for conducting digital investigations using ground-breaking digital forensics technologies.
Training at a glance
Level
Intermediate
Duration
5 Days
Experience
2 years: IT Security
Average Salary
$117,950
Labs
Yes
Level
Intermediate
Duration
5 Days
Experience
2 years: IT Security
Average Salary
$117,950
Labs
Yes
Training Details
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
Lesson 1: Computer Forensics in Today's World
Lesson 2: Computer Forensics Investigation Process
Lesson 3: Understanding Hard Disks and File Systems
Lesson 4: Data Acquisition and Duplication
Lesson 5: Defeating Anti-Forensics Techniques
Lesson 6: Windows Forensics
Lesson 7: Linux and Mac Forensics
Lesson 8: Network Forensics
Lesson 9: Investigating Web Attacks
Lesson 10: Dark Web Forensics
Lesson 11: Database Forensics
Lesson 12: Cloud Forensics
Lesson 13: Investigating Email Crimes
Lesson 14: Malware Forensics
Lesson 15: Mobile Forensics
Lesson 16: IoT Forensics
The program is designed for IT professionals involved with information system security, computer forensics, and incident response including:
- Police and other law enforcement personnel
- Defense and Military personnel
- e-Business Security professionals
- Systems administrators
- Legal professionals
- Banking, Insurance, and other professionals
- Government agencies
- IT managers
- Digital Forensics Service Providers
It is strongly recommended that you attend Certified Ethical Hacker before enrolling into CHFI program.
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OUR EC-COUNCIL AWARDS AND ACCREDITATIONS
Not only are we an EC-Council Accredited Training Center on a global level, but we have also received the EC-Council Academia Circle of Excellence Award for three years running. We employ EC-Council award-winning Circle of Excellence instructors and as a result, your EC-Council training experience will be both superior and successful.
Accredited Training Center
Due to our expertise in security-based training, we deliver Authorized EC-Council Official Curriculum classes due to being an Accredited Training Center.
Academic Training Partner
Through our university partnerships we are an EC-Council Accredited Academic Training partner. We strive to achieve academic excellence.
Circle of Excellence
We are honored to have received the EC-Council Academic Circle of Excellence Award in 2017. This award is also coupled with a multi-year EC-Council Circle of Excellence instructor. A winning combination!
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