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Cyber Crime Investigation 

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Cyber Crime Investigation
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FutureLearn 
Overview

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

900

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Cyber Crime Investigation
 at 
FutureLearn 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from Futurelearn
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Cyber Crime Investigation
 at 
FutureLearn 
Course details

More about this course
  • This four-week course will equip you with the core technical and theoretical knowledge required to conduct cyber investigations and help prevent cyber crime in the future
  • You'll gain an insight into the legislation and best practices of how to prevent cyber crime, as well as the challenges which can arise during an investigation
  • You;ll also learn about data storage and how data is interpreted, managed, communicated, and potentially recovered from a hacked digital device
  • Exploring virtual and volatile data, you'll discover how gathering this data can help in the result of an investigation.
  • This understanding will enable you to recognise the fundamental elements of what it takes to become an effective cyber investigator

Cyber Crime Investigation
 at 
FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Exploring the problem, rules and challenges

Welcome, Aims, Objectives and Motivations

Cyber-crime: Assessing the Problem

Forensics in Investigations

Rules of Engagement

The Investigation Process

Investigator or Geek?

What are the challenges?

Weekly knowledge check

Summing up and looking forward

Computers and Data: The Basics

Introduction and Objectives

What is a computer?

Computer Hardware

Computer Software

Data - What and How?

Weekly knowledge check

Summing up and looking forward

Networks, Virtualisation and Volatile Data

Introduction and Objectives

Physical, Remote, Virtual and Volatile Data Sources

Networks and Cyber-crime

How do Computers Communicate?

Virtualisation

Volatile Data

Weekly knowledge check

Peer Assessment

Summing up and looking forward

Investigating Data

Introduction and Objectives

Storage Device Configuration

Exploring Metadata

Files: Deletion and Recovery

Demonstrating Data Integrity

Weekly knowledge test

Putting it all together

Certification Test

Summing up - Where to next?

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