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Level 5 Diploma in Cyber Security

Stages of forensic investigation (identification, preservation, analysis, documentation, presentation) and the chain of custody

CYB505 · Digital Forensics — Week 2 of 16

CourseCYB505
Week2 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Stages of forensic investigation (identification, preservation, analysis, documentation, presentation) and the chain of custody

  1. The main stages of digital forensic investigations
  2. The importance of maintaining a chain of custody

What you will be able to do

  • 1.2 Explain the main stages of digital forensic investigations.
  • 1.4 Critically analyse the importance of maintaining a chain of custody.

Activity

Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain the main stages of digital forensic investigations.

Study materials

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Course plan
  • Week 1: From crime scene to digital crime scene: Locard's exchange …
  • Week 2: Stages of forensic investigation (identification, preservat…
  • Week 3: Best practices: contemporaneous notes and the ACPO Good Pra…
  • Week 4: Forensic techniques: cross-drive and live analysis, data ca…
  • Week 5: Evidence acquisition: order of volatility, RAM and disk ima…
  • Week 6: Forensic tools lab: Autopsy, FTK or EnCase
  • Week 7: Multimedia forensics: source detection and device identific…
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Digital watermarking: purposes, techniques and requirements…
  • Week 10: Challenges and risks of multimedia investigations, includin…
  • Week 11: Legal and ethical concerns: admissibility, privacy and data…
  • Week 12: Applying Digital Forensics in practice: case studies
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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