Cyber Crime Investigation

Learn how to prevent cyber crime

As we embrace rapidly evolving technology, the risk of people finding opportunities to exploit it continues to increase.

This four-week course will equip you with the core technical and theoretical knowledge required to conduct cyber investigations and help prevent cyber crime in the future.

Explore the challenges associated with a cyber crime investigator

You’ll gain an insight into the legislation and best practices of how to prevent cyber crime, as well as the challenges which can arise during an investigation.

You’ll also learn about data storage and how data is interpreted, managed, communicated, and potentially recovered from a hacked digital device.

Discover how the data results gathered can help in reporting cyber crime

Exploring virtual and volatile data, you’ll discover how gathering this data can help in the result of an investigation.

This understanding will enable you to recognise the fundamental elements of what it takes to become an effective cyber investigator.

Learn from the best minds in cyber investigation

The course is led by Paul Cain, a leading practitioner with almost 20 years of experience working in digital forensics and cyber investigations.

You’ll learn from his expertise in both law enforcement and the private sector to help you develop cyber crime investigation skills.

This course is designed for anyone interested in exploring the fundamentals of digital investigations and cyber crime.

No hardware, software or other resources required to complete this course.

• Exploring the problem, rules and challenges
• Welcome, Aims, Objectives and Motivations
• Cyber-crime: Assessing the Problem
• Forensics in Investigations
• Rules of Engagement
• The Investigation Process
• Investigator or Geek?
• What are the challenges?
• Weekly knowledge check
• Summing up and looking forward
• Computers and Data: The Basics
• Introduction and Objectives
• What is a computer?
• Computer Hardware
• Computer Software
• Data - What and How?
• Weekly knowledge check
• Summing up and looking forward
• Networks, Virtualisation and Volatile Data
• Introduction and Objectives
• Physical, Remote, Virtual and Volatile Data Sources
• Networks and Cyber-crime
• How do Computers Communicate?
• Virtualisation
• Volatile Data
• Weekly knowledge check
• Summing up and looking forward
• Investigating Data
• Introduction and Objectives
• Storage Device Configuration
• Exploring Metadata
• Files: Deletion and Recovery
• Demonstrating Data Integrity
• Weekly knowledge test
• Putting it all together
• Certification Test
• Summing up - Where to next?