Digital Forensics and Investigations
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Digital Forensics and Investigations Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Digital Forensics and Investigations (subject code 4725901) as prescribed for CS · Semester 2 divides the course into 7 units, covering 39 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.
Download the official syllabus PDF (4725901)Unit 1 UNIT-I
- Digital Forensics and Its Environment Concepts in Digital Evidence
- Nature and Special Properties of Digital Evidence
- Objective of the Digital Forensics
- The key technical Concepts
- Forensic readiness
- Computer Forensic Flaws and Risks
- Computer Forensic-Rules
- Procedures and Legal Issues
Unit 2 UNIT-II
- Computer System Forensic and its Investigation Process Understanding of Systems
- Disks and Media
- Understanding Data Acquisition and Duplication
- Principles of Data Acquisition
- AY 2021-22 and validation methods
- Operating System Forensics
- Documentation Process
Unit 3 UNIT-III
- Network Forensics Network Attacks
- Network Forensic
- Analysis of network traffic techniques and Investigating Traffics Logs
- Investigation of Web attacks
- Web attack detection tools
- Router Forensics
- Documentation Process
Unit 4 UNIT-IV
- Investigation E-mail Crimes Email system basics
- Email Crimes
- Steps to Investigate Email
- Email Forensic Tools
Unit 5 UNIT-V
- Investigating Wireless Attacks Basics of Wireless
- Access Controls
- Wireless Penetration Testing
Unit 6 UNIT-VI
- Mobile Devices/PDA Forensics Cellular Networks
- Components of PDA, PDA Forensics
- Investigation Methodology and Tips
- Mobile Forensics tools
Unit 7 UNIT-VII
- Current Trends in the Digital Forensics 02 10 Textbooks/Reference Books 1
- The Basics of Digital Forensic – The primer for Getting Started in Digital Forensics by John Sammons
- Elsevier – Syngress publication 2
- Practical Digital Forensic by Richard Boddington – PACKT Publication – Open-source Community 3
- Network Forensics – Tracking hackers through Cyberspace by Sherri Davidoff and Jonathan Ham, Pearson Publication 4
- The official CHFI Study Guide for Computer Hacking Forensics Investigators published by Syngress Publishing Inc
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