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Digital and Network Forensics Advanced Programme

Tech Centre Cyber Arena Digital and Network Forensics Advanced Programme

Programme Overview

Digital forensics has become a critical capability as cyber threats grow in scale, sophistication, and financial impact globally. Organisations today require skilled professionals who can investigate incidents, preserve digital evidence, and ensure forensic readiness to effectively respond to cyberattacks and reduce business risk.
This intensive, hands-on programme equips participants with practical expertise through 68+ forensic labs and real-world scenarios. 

Participants will go beyond traditional hardware and memory forensics and learn current topics such as cloud forensics, mobile and IoT, email and social media forensics, investigating web application attacks, and malware forensics.
The programme follows a structured forensic investigation methodology covering evidence acquisition, preservation, analysis, and reporting, ensuring legal admissibility and compliance. 

It is aligned with global standards and frameworks, including U.S. Department of Defense Directive 8570/8140, and supports regulatory requirements such as ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOX, and HIPAA.

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Programme Benefits
Develop end-to-end digital forensics expertise across investigation, evidence handling, analysis, and legally compliant reporting processes.
Gain hands-on experience through real-world labs, tools, and simulated cybercrime investigation scenarios.
Build advanced skills in cloud, mobile, IoT, malware, and network forensics investigations.
Participants get exam voucher for EC Council’s CHFI certification. Participants get one year access to online cloud labs and e-books.
Who is the Programme for?

Designed for IT professionals, cybersecurity specialists, incident responders, and forensic analysts with foundational knowledge, seeking to build advanced digital investigation skills, strengthen forensic readiness, and support legal and regulatory compliance within organisations.

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* Please note: This programme is available only to corporate groups. Individual signups are not eligible.
Learning Modules

Module 1: Computer Forensics in Today’s World
Computer forensics fundamentals, different types of cybercrimes and their investigation procedures, and regulations and standards that influence computer forensics investigation 

Module 2: Computer Forensics Investigation Process
Various phases involved in the computer forensics investigation process 

Module 3: Understanding Hard Disks and File Systems
Different types of disk drives and their characteristics, booting process and file systems in Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems, file system examination tools, RAID and NAS/SAN storage systems, various encoding standards, and file format analysis 

Module 4: Data Acquisition and Duplication
Data acquisition fundamentals and methodology, eDiscovery, and how to prepare image files for forensics examination 

Module 5: Defeating Anti-Forensics Techniques
Various anti-forensics techniques used by attackers, different ways to detect them and related tools, and countermeasures 

Module 6: Windows Forensics
Volatile and non-volatile data acquisition in Windows-based operating systems, Windows memory and registry analysis, electron application analysis, web browser forensics, and examination of Windows files, ShellBags, LNK files, jump lists, and Windows event logs 

Module 7: Linux and Mac Forensics
Volatile and non-volatile data acquisition and memory forensics in Linux and Mac operating systems 

Module 8: Network Forensics
Network forensics fundamentals, event correlation concepts, Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and ways to identify them from network logs, techniques and tools related to network traffic investigation, incident detection and examination, and wireless attack detection and investigation 

Module 9: Malware Forensics
Malware forensics concepts, static and dynamic malware analysis, system and network behaviour analysis, and ransomware analysis 

Module 10: Investigating Web Attacks
Web application forensics and challenges, web application threats and attacks, web application logs (IIS logs, Apache web server logs, etc.), and how to detect and investigate various web application attacks 

Module 11: Dark Web Forensics
Tor browser working methodology and steps involved in the Tor browser forensics process 

Module 12: Cloud Forensics
Cloud computing concepts, cloud forensics and challenges, fundamentals of AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud and their investigation processes 

Module 13: Email and Social Media Forensics
Components in email communication, steps involved in email crime investigation, and social media forensics

Module 14: Mobile Forensics
Architectural layers and boot processes of Android and iOS devices, mobile forensics process, various cellular networks, SIM file system, and logical and physical acquisition of Android and iOS devices 

Module 15: IoT Forensics
Different types of IoT threats, security problems, vulnerabilities and attack surfaces areas, and IoT forensics processes and challenges

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