Cyber Forensic and Incident Response

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Cyber Forensic and Incident Response

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Cyber Forensic and Incident Response Syllabus — Unit-wise Content

The official GTU curriculum for Cyber Forensic and Incident Response (subject code 2715904) as prescribed for CS · Semester 1 divides the course into 15 units, covering 80 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.

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Unit 1 Introduction to the Incident Response Process

3 lecture hours

  • What Is a Computer Security Incident?
  • What Are the Goals of Incident Response?
  • Who Is Involved in the Incident Response Process?
  • Incident Response Methodology
  • Pre-Incident Preparation
  • Detection of Incidents
  • Initial Response
  • Formulate a Response Strategy
  • Investigate the Incident

Unit 2 Preparing for Incident Response

3 lecture hours

  • Overview of Pre-incident Preparation
  • Identifying Risk
  • Preparing Individual Hosts
  • Preparing a Network
  • Establishing Appropriate Policies and Procedures
  • creating a response toolkit Establishing an Incident Response Team

Unit 3 After Detection of an Incident

4 lecture hours

  • Overview of the Initial Response Phase
  • Establishing an Incident Notification Procedure
  • Recording the Details after Initial Detection
  • Incident Declaration
  • Assembling the CSIRT
  • Performing Traditional Investigative Steps
  • Conducting Interviews
  • Formulating a Response Strategy

Unit 4 Live Data Collection from Windows Systems and Unix Systems

4 lecture hours

  • Creating a Response Toolkit
  • Storing Information Obtained during the Initial Response
  • Obtaining Volatile Data
  • Performing an In-Depth Live Response
  • Is Forensic Duplication Necessary?

Unit 5 Forensic Duplication

4 lecture hours

  • Forensic Duplicates As Admissible Evidence
  • Forensic Duplication Tool Requirements
  • Creating a Forensic Duplicate of a Hard Drive
  • Creating a Qualified Forensic Duplicate of a Hard Drive

Unit 6 Collecting Network-based Evidence

5 lecture hours

  • What Is Network-based Evidence?
  • What are the goals of network monitoring?
  • Types of Network Monitoring
  • Setting Up a Network Monitoring System
  • Performing a Trap-and-Trace Using tcpdump for Full-Content Monitoring
  • Collecting Network-based Log Files

Unit 7 Evidence Handling

3 lecture hours

  • What Is Evidence?
  • The Challenges of Evidence Handling
  • Overview of Evidence-Handling Procedures

Unit 8 Computer System Storage Fundamentals

2 lecture hours

  • Hard Drives and Interfaces
  • Preparation of Hard Drive Media
  • Introduction to File Systems and Storage Layers

Unit 9 Data Analysis Techniques

4 lecture hours

  • Preparation for Forensic Analysis
  • Restoring a Forensic Duplicate
  • Preparing a Forensic Duplication for Analysis In Linux
  • Reviewing Image Files with Forensic Suites
  • Converting a Qualified Forensic Duplicate to a Forensic Duplicate
  • Recovering Deleted Files on Windows Systems
  • Recovering Unallocated Space
  • Free Space, and Slack Space Generating File Lists
  • Preparing a Drive for String Searches

Unit 10 Investigating Windows Systems

3 lecture hours

  • Where Evidence Resides on Windows Systems
  • Conducting a Windows Investigation
  • File Auditing and Theft of Information
  • Handling the Departing Employee

Unit 11 Investigating Unix Systems

3 lecture hours

  • An Overview of the Steps in a Unix Investigation
  • Reviewing Pertinent Logs
  • Performing Keyword Searches
  • Reviewing Relevant Files
  • Identifying Unauthorized User Accounts or Groups
  • Identifying Rogue Processes
  • Checking for Unauthorized Access Points
  • Analyzing Trust Relationships
  • Detecting Trojan Loadable Kernel Modules

Unit 12 Analyzing Network Traffic

5 lecture hours

  • Finding Network-Based Evidence
  • Generating Session Data with tcptrace
  • Reassembling Sessions Using tcpflow
  • Reassembling Sessions Using Ethereal
  • Refining tcpdump Filters

Unit 13 Investigating Hacker Tools

3 lecture hours

  • What Are the Goals of Tool Analysis?
  • How Files Are Compiled Static Analysis of a Hacker Tool
  • Dynamic Analysis of a Hacker Tool

Unit 14 Investigating Routers

2 lecture hours

  • Obtaining Volatile Data Prior to Powering Down
  • Finding the Proof
  • Using Routers as Response Tools

Unit 15 Writing Computer Forensic Reports

2 lecture hours

  • What Is a Computer Forensics Report?
  • Report Writing Guidelines
  • A Template for Computer Forensic Reports

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