• Online, Self-Paced

This course covers investigative methods and standards for the acquisition, extraction, preservation, analysis and deposition of digital evidence from storage devices. This course offers a wide array of forensics situations that are applicable to the real world. Students will learn how to find traces of illegal or illicit activities left on disk with computer forensics tools and manual techniques, and how to recover data intentionally hidden or encrypted by perpetrators.

Learning Objectives

The student will demonstrate an understanding of: 

  • Data Storage, Components of Common Storage Devices, Memory Management, and File System Organization
  • Forensics Investigative Process, Requirements, Documentation, and rules for collecting and acquiring evidence
  • Evidentiary reporting to include activities of expert witnesses, types of acceptable evidence, and the requirements of written and oral reports
  • Forensics issues pertaining to cloud computing, as well as mobile and gaming console devices.

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

Specialty Areas

  • Digital Forensics

Specialty Areas have been removed from the NICE Framework. With the recent release of the new NICE Framework data, updates to courses are underway. Until this course can be updated, this historical information is provided to give better context as to how it can help you with your cybersecurity goals.

Feedback

If you would like to provide feedback for this course, please e-mail the NICCS SO at NICCS@hq.dhs.gov.