Explore a Career in Computer Forensics

Cybercrimes are on the rise, driving the demand for forensics specialists. This learning path will equip you with fundamental computer forensics knowledge and help you launch your career as a forensics expert.

Discover how to collect and investigate network traffic.
Research how to recover evidence from an operating system.
Explore how to ethically approach investigations.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: The Cybersecurity Threat Landscape
-Learn how to protect your organization’s data from even the most devious cybersecurity threats. Examine the most common security concerns as well as newer attack vectors.

Course 2: Cybersecurity Foundations: Computer Forensics
-Learn how to acquire and analyze data from computers or storage devices with computer forensics.

Course 3: Operating System Forensics
-Learn the fundamentals of operating system forensics. Find out how to recover evidence from the operating system of any computer.

Course 4: Network Forensics
-Get a comprehensive look at network forensics. Learn how to prepare for network forensics investigations, investigate network events, and examine network traffic

Course 5: Wireshark: Malware and Forensics
-Learn to use Wireshark for deep packet analysis, capturing, and forensics. Learn to detect and handle unusual traffic on a network and prevent malicious activity.

Course 6: Protecting Your Network with Open-Source Software
-Build a basic and intermediate understanding of network security using easily accessible, free, and open-source software solutions. Hands-on challenges enhance your learning.

Course 7: Learning Autopsy for Digital Forensics
-Learn the basics of Autopsy, the digital forensic platform and graphical interface that helps you apply the tools of the Sleuth Kit and other digital forensics tools.

Course 8: Soft Skills for Information Security Professionals
-Information security isn’t all ones and zeros. Learn how to communicate security concepts and proposals in terms that will resonate with audiences of all technical abilities.

Course 9: Ethics in Cybersecurity
-Learn about the ethics of working in cybersecurity and how to have challenging conversations about those ethics.