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Aug 31, 2024
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CVF 1065 - Introduction to Cybersecurity, Virtualization and Forensics Credits: 3 Hours/Week: Lecture 2Lab 2 Course Description: This introductory course presents information and methods to properly conduct a computer forensics investigation including ethics, tools, procedures, and analysis. This course also includes introduction to Cybersecurity, and Virtualization Technology. MnTC Goals None
Prerequisite(s): None Corequisite(s): None Recommendation: None
Major Content
- Becoming an expert witness
- Computer forensics and investigations as a profession
- Computing forensic analysis
- Current computer forensics tools and procedures
- Data acquisition
- Digital evidence controls
- E-mail investigations
- Ethics of computer forensics investigation
- Introduction to Cybersecurity
- Introduction to VMware Virtualization
- Macintosh and Linux boot processes and disk structures
- Processing crime and incident scenes
- Recovering image files
- The investigators office and laboratory
- Understanding the parameters of computer investigations
- Working with Windows and DOS Systems
- Written investigative reports
Learning Outcomes At the end of this course students will be able to:
- employ chain of evidence protocols during the investigative process
- implement computer security policies and electronic investigation procedures
- identify the need for a computer forensics investigation
- initiate a computer forensics investigation
- evaluate information contained in investigative reports
- interpret and process incident scenes
- explain the basic interactions of computer operating systems, hardware components and architecture, digital communications and networks
- apply appropriate cyber activity regulations, national and international digital transaction standards, and computer and information laws during the investigative process
- apply various technological tools to collect and capture digital data
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