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Cybersecurity Foundations: Computer Forensics

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Learn how to acquire and analyze data from computers or storage devices with computer forensics.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Computer forensics
  • What you should know
1. Understanding Computer Forensics
  • Definition and goals of computer forensics
  • History
  • Types of investigations
  • Tools
  • Legal implications
  • Current and future trends
  • Challenges
  • Anti-forensics techniques
  • Compliance and forensics
  • Cybersecurity and forensics
2. Areas of Computer Forensics
  • Specializations in computer forensics
  • Network forensics
  • Operating system forensics
  • Web forensics
  • Cloud forensics
  • Malware forensics
  • Mobile forensics
  • Email forensics
  • Certifications
3. Preparing for an Investigation
  • Tools and knowledge requirements
  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Understanding hexadecimal numbers
  • Using a hex editor
  • Understanding offset
  • Forensics OS distributions
  • Challenge: Hex editor
  • Solution: Hex editor
4. File System Fundamentals
  • Understanding file systems
  • Understanding the boot sequence
  • Understanding disk/solid-state drives
  • Understanding the master boot records (MBR)
  • Understanding Partitioning
  • Challenge: Partitioning a USB drive
  • Solution: Partitioning a USB drive
5. Persisting Data
  • Evidence preservation approaches
  • Understanding the role of write blockers
  • Using a software write blocker
  • Using hardware write blockers
  • Understanding hashing
  • Hashing algorithms
  • Case Study: Hashing in FTK Imager
  • Understanding mounting
  • Mounting manually
  • Challenge: Hashing in Kali
  • Solution: Hashing in Kali
6. Aquiring Data
  • Data acquisition approaches
  • Static acquisition with open-source tools
  • Static acquisition case study with dd
  • Static acquisition case study with dcfldd
  • Live acquisition case study with a commercial tool
  • Challenge: Live acquisition with a memory dump file
  • Solution: Live acquisition with a memory dump file
7. Putting It All Together: Analyzing Data and Generating Reports
  • Forensic data analysis
  • Indexing
  • Searching
  • Generating a Report
  • Case Study: Hex editor analysis of a file with a wrong extension
  • Hex editor analysis of a bit-shifted file
  • Case Study: Steganography
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Jungwoo Ryoo

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