Course Overview
For those with an interest in pursuing a career in Digital Forensics, you’ve found the one essentials course designed with your needs in mind. Digital Forensics Essentials is the ideal entry point for all students interested in understanding digital forensics.
This course will introduce students to Computer Forensics Fundamentals as well as the Computer Forensics Investigation Process. Plan to learn about Dark Web, Windows, Linux, Malware Forensics and so much more! With 28 live labs you won’t find a more robust, hands-on, entry-level digital forensics course anywhere.
Who should attend
School students, fresh graduates, Professionals, Career starters and switchers, IT/ Technology/ Cybersecurity teams with little or no work experience.
Prerequisites
No prior cybersecurity knowledge or IT work experience required.
Course Objectives
- Discuss the fundamental concepts of computer forensics, digital evidence, forensic
- readiness, identify the roles and responsibilities of a forensic investigator and review
- legal compliance issues in computer forensics.
- Examine the computer forensic investigation process and its phases.
- Describe different disk drives, characteristics, and logical structure, understand Windows, Linux, and Mac boot processes, and examine various file systems and formats.
- Discuss data acquisition concepts, types, format, and methodology.
- Examine various anti-forensics techniques and identify countermeasures.
- Examine various volatile and non-volatile information gathering techniques for Windows, Linux, and Mac systems, including Windows memory and registry analysis, cache, cookie, history analysis, and metadata investigation.
- Explain network forensics fundamentals, event correlation, and perform network traffic investigation.
- Comprehend web server logs and perform web application forensics to detect and investigate various attacks on web applications.
- Discuss the working of the dark web and email systems, and perform Dark Web, TOR browser, and email forensics
- Discuss malware forensics fundamentals, list and perform different types of malware analysis.
Outline: EC-Council Digital Forensics Essentials (DFE)
- Computer Forensics Fundamentals
- Computer Forensics Investigation Process
- Understanding Hard Disks and File Systems
- Data Acquisition and Duplication
- Defeating Anti-forensics Techniques
- Windows Forensics
- Linux and Mac Forensics
- Network Forensics
- Investigating Web Attacks
- Dark Web Forensics
- Investigating Email Crimes
- Malware Forensics