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Practical: Cyber Investigator 

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Practical: Cyber Investigator
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Overview

Duration

3 weeks

Total fee

900

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Practical: Cyber Investigator
 at 
FutureLearn 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from Futurelearn
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Practical: Cyber Investigator
 at 
FutureLearn 
Course details

Skills you will learn
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  • You'll learn how to put the five-phase investigation model into practice, with a focus on the identification and preservation of digital evidence
  • The course will help you develop an understanding of the requirements for a digital investigation
  • You'll explore different scenarios to learn how to examine, recover, extract, and interpret data
  • This understanding will help you collect data in a forensically sound manner, translate raw data from sources that are compressed, encoded, or encrypted, and provide investigational context to the data
  • You'll also learn how to present your interpreted data in a way that can be understood by others
  • By the end of the course, you'll be able to explain the importance of evidential and forensic integrity
  • You'll know how data can be hidden from the investigator and be able to present complex digital matters that can withstand scrutiny
  • Learning from Jim Metcalfe, a digital forensic investigator, cyber security incident responder, and expert witness at PA Consulting, you'll finish the course with practical knowledge on how to handle digital evidence required for legal or disciplinary proceedings
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Practical: Cyber Investigator
 at 
FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Practical Investigation - Introductions, Phases 1 & 2, Identification and Preservation

Welcome to ExpertTrack

Welcome, Aims, Objectives and Motivations

Investigation Process and Software

Phase 1 - Identification

Phase 2 - Preservation

Weekly knowledge check

Practical Investigation - Phase 3, Examination

Introduction and Objectives

Developing an effective examination strategy

Data Reduction - Finding potential evidence

Hiding Data

Databases

Data Recovery and Extraction

Weekly knowledge check

Practical Investigation - Phase 4 (Interpretation) and Phase 5 (Reporting)

Welcome to week three

Contextualising Data

Tracking User Activity

How to Report

Moving on

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