This specialist-level course is for professionals whose role requires them to capture and analyse data from ‘live’ systems. It introduces the latest guidelines and artefacts on current Windows operating systems, and teaches essential skills for conducting an efficient and comprehensive investigation.
Course Overview
This five-day course is designed to provide you with the confidence and skills to isolate, investigate and extract evidence from a live networked environment (as you would expect to find in a home or business network) during or after a cyber incident.
You will spend a large proportion of the course practising these skills and methods in both physical and virtual network environments that replicate the challenges faced by investigators in both the office and home cyber event scenarios.
PREREQUISITES
You will need a good understanding and experience of:
We strongly recommend completion of the 7Safe CFIP and CLFP courses as a minimum before attending this course.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This is an intensive training course designed for experienced forensic investigators and cyber security practitioners who already have a good knowledge of forensic investigation and want to extend their skills, including:
THE SKILLS YOU WILL LEARN
You will learn and practice the critical skills needed to identify the correct forensic artefacts in a live network environment and how to preserve, extract and interpret them. We will show you how to correctly acquire and handle dynamic forensic evidence so that you do not inadvertently alter or destroy vital clues that could potentially result in your investigation failing or the resultant evidence being inadmissible in court.
Upon completion of the course you will:
KEY BENEFITS
This course will enable you to:
SYLLABUS
Throughout the course, your time will be equally split between being taught the methods and principles required to isolate, investigate and extract evidence in a live network environment and applying these in practical, hands-on exercises based on real life scenarios, created in a set of physical and virtual networks. Topics covered will include:
1. Investigation Principles and Strategy
a. ACPO Guideline - The Four Principles
b. Competency
c. ISO Standards
d. Applicable Law
2. Computer Networks
a. What is a computer network?
b. Types of computer network
c. Network topologies
3. Network Reference Models
a. OSI Model
b. TCP/IP Model
4. Network Addressing
a. IPv4
b. IPv6
c. MAC Address
5. Network Protocols
a. Ports
b. What are protocols?
c. Transport layer protocols
d. Other protocols of interest
6. Network Environments
a. Home network
b. Business/office network
c. Public network
7. Network Devices
a. Computer (Desktop/Server)
b. Hub
c. Switch
d. Router
e. Other devices
8. Information Gathering
Analysis Environments
Identifying equipment
Accessing a network
Network mapping
Network traffic
Accessing Nodes (Computer, Switch, Router, other devices)
Reducing your digital footprint
Windows Management Instrumentation Command Line
PowerShell
Remote imaging and data collection
9. A Cyber Analysis Process
a. Correlating Results
b. Data Interpretation
10. Simplifying Complex Evidence
a. Subject knowledge levels
b. Clarity, simplicity, brevity
c. Reporting
Join our public courses in our Istanbul, London and Ankara facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.