DA 205 - Digital Forensics II

Credit Hours: 4

This course will cover advanced digital forensics topics. Some of the concepts discussed and demonstrated include forensic cleansing, forensic duplication, imaging, acquisition, hashing, file meta-data analysis, carving, and examining deleted files. Some of the software used in the lab includes SMART, HELIX, Backtrack, FTK, Mac Forensic Lab, and Gargoyle Forensic Investigator.

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

utilize a systematic approach to computer investigations;
utilize various forensic tools to collect digital evidence;
perform digital forensics analysis upon Windows, MAC, and LINUX operating systems;
perform email investigations;
analyze and carve image files both logical and physical;
explain guidelines for investigation reporting;
explain anti-forensic methods/tools and their use;
understand the implications of anti-forensics to the digital forensics investigator; and
demonstrate an awareness of current methods of reducing the effectiveness of anti-forensics.

Prerequisites: DA 204
F/S (N)