Week 1 – Introduction to Computer Forensics
‐ Course overview
‐ Understanding the need for computer forensics
‐ Defining computer forensics
Week 2 –
-Forensic Tools
‐ Forensic hardware
‐ Hardware write/blockers
‐ Hard drive acquisitions
‐ Processing the scene
Week 3–
Files and File Systems
‐ Windows file systems
‐ FAT32
‐ NTFS
‐ Forensic file images
Week 4
– Forensic Software
‐ Overview of different software packages
Week 5
– Bookmarking and Searching
‐ Creating basic search queries
‐ Hex, Decimal, and Binary
‐ ASCII
‐ Unicode
Week 6 –
‐ Understanding GREP
‐ Building Regular Expressions
‐ Creating GREP keywords
‐ Viewing and managing keywords and cases
Week 7 –
– Forensic Reports
‐ Creating a forensic report
‐ Proper report writing
‐ Explaining forensics to the uneducated