From intellectual property theft and computer abuse to intrusions, this hands-on forensic course will arm you with the methods and tools to respond to and investigate any event in your workplace. This course is designed to provide a starting point for forensic investigators and fills in the gaps for more experienced security personnel.

Beginning the first day, you will learn the proper methodology of investigating a complex digital crime. Utilizing real-world scenarios, you will see how an investigation might begin in your organization and how to begin the investigative process. File systems are the core to your understanding of computer forensics. As every forensic tool utilizes this knowledge, you will learn how hard drives are used to store data from the partitioning to how file systems work. The day will conclude with discussion on the internals to the most common file systems encountered in forensics for Windows (NTFS and FAT) and Linux (Ext2/3).