Unit 1 Digital Forensics Science

7 lecture hours

• Forensics science
• computer forensics, and digital forensics
• Computer Crime: Criminalistics as it relates to the investigative process
• analysis of cyber-criminalistics area
• holistic approach to cyber-forensics

Unit 2 Cyber Crime Scene Analysis

8 lecture hours

• Discuss the various court orders etc.
• methods to search and seizure electronic evidence
• retrieved and un-retrieved communications
• Discuss the importance of understanding what court documents would be required for a criminal investigation

Unit 3 Evidence Management & Presentation

8 lecture hours

• Create and manage shared folders using operating system
• importance of the forensic mindset
• define the workload of law enforcement
• Explain what the normal case would look like
• Define who should be notified of a crime
• parts of gathering evidence
• Define and apply probable cause

Unit 4 Computer Forensics

10 lecture hours

• Prepare a case
• Begin an investigation
• Understand computer forensics workstations and software
• Conduct an investigation
• Complete a case
• Critique a case
• Network Forensics: Open-source security tools for network forensic analysis
• requirements for preservation of network data

Unit 5 Mobile Forensics

8 lecture hours

• Mobile forensics techniques
• mobile forensics tools
• Legal Aspects of Digital Forensics: IT Act 2000
• amendment of IT Act 2008

Unit 6 Recent trends in mobile forensic technique and methods to search and

• seizure electronic evidence 4 10