CVF 1065 - Introduction to Cybersecurity, Virtualization and Forensics

1. Becoming an expert witness
2. Computer forensics and investigations as a profession
3. Computing forensic analysis
4. Current computer forensics tools and procedures
5. Data acquisition
6. Digital evidence controls
7. E-mail investigations
8. Ethics of computer forensics investigation
9. Introduction to Cybersecurity
10. Introduction to VMware Virtualization
11. Macintosh and Linux boot processes and disk structures
12. Processing crime and incident scenes
13. Recovering image files
14. The investigators office and laboratory
15. Understanding the parameters of computer investigations
16. Working with Windows and DOS Systems
17. Written investigative reports

1. employ chain of evidence protocols during the investigative process
2. implement computer security policies and electronic investigation procedures
3. identify the need for a computer forensics investigation
4. initiate a computer forensics investigation
5. evaluate information contained in investigative reports
6. interpret and process incident scenes
7. explain the basic interactions of computer operating systems, hardware components and architecture, digital communications and networks
8. apply appropriate cyber activity regulations, national and international digital transaction standards, and computer and information laws during the investigative process
9. apply various technological tools to collect and capture digital data

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