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Digital Forensics

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Learning Goals
Cyber-crime scene analysis
  • Identify best practices  for securing, acquiring and examining digital data including rules of evidence and chain of custody. 
  • Apply principles and tools of static data acquisition
  • Perform volatile data acquisition and analysis
  • Retrieve deleted and hidden data from storage media
  • Execute cryptographic encoding and decoding for data validation and de-obfuscation
  • Locate and analyze evidence stored in network and browsers
  • Extract metadata to establish evidence core facts for date, time and location
  • Examine laws and regulations dealing with computer crimes
  • The course focuses on hands-on labs with open-source forensic software.  To complete the course, students must complete both a written exam and a practical exam in which they investigate / report on a computer crime scene. 

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