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Introduction to Digital Forensics: Malware Analysis and Investigations 

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Introduction to Digital Forensics: Malware Analysis and Investigations
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Overview

Duration

3 weeks

Total fee

900

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Introduction to Digital Forensics: Malware Analysis and Investigations
 at 
FutureLearn 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from Futurelearn
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Introduction to Digital Forensics: Malware Analysis and Investigations
 at 
FutureLearn 
Course details

More about this course
  • Learn the essentials of what malware is, how it works, and how malware is used to extract personal data for private gain
  • Learn how to identify malware on a computer system, as well as the different types of malware
  • With this understanding, you'll know how to spot a potential attack, protecting your data and devices
  • You'll examine different malware categories and analyse how these categories are similar and how they differ
  • This will help you grasp how Windows 10 stores information about programs being executed, and how the New Technology File System stores metadata
  • With this knowledge, you'll be able to communicate the importance of malware analysis to help protect your organisation

Introduction to Digital Forensics: Malware Analysis and Investigations
 at 
FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Understanding malware

ExpertTrack Courses

Welcome to the course

Quiz - Let's test your cyber knowledge

Let's discuss the quiz

Week one introduction

History of malware

Categories of malware

Describing categories of malware

End of week test

Malware infection and persistent methods

Week two introduction

Malware Terminology

Infection Methods

Persistence Methods

Obfuscation Methods

End of week 2 test

Week two review

Peer Graded Assessment

Operating System & File System Basics

Week three introduction

Windows 10 Operating System

NT File System

End of week test

Week three review

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