Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to:

1. Explain how to conduct a digital forensics investigation, including the concept of the chain of evidence.

2. Summarize findings from digital forensic investigations.

3. Perform recovery of digital evidence from various digital devices using a variety of software utilities.

This course is presented by means of:

• on-campus lectures or on-line lessons
• group discussions
• individual lab assignments
• group lab assignments.

Students will be required to use essential tools to complete the lab assignments.

Through exams and lab assignments students will be assessed to determine whether they are able to:

• Define and discuss the concepts of computer forensics.
• Explain the career of a computer forensics professional.
• Explain and apply the concepts of computer investigations.
• Setup and operate in an investigator's office and laboratory.
• Select and apply current computer forensics tools.
• Identify and apply current practices for processing crime and incident scenes.
• Explain and apply digital evidence controls.
• Explain and perform forensic analysis in various operating system environments.
• Explain the boot processes and disk structures of various operating system environments.
• Identify and apply current practices for data discovery recovery and acquisition.
• Conduct basic computer forensic analysis.
• Demonstrate the recovery of image files.
• Conduct basic network forensic analysis.
• Perform e-mail investigations.
• Act as expert witness and report results of investigations.

• Computer forensics.
• Computer investigations.
• Computer forensics laboratory.
• Computer forensics tools.
• Crime and incident scenes
• Digital evidence practices.
• Data and image recovery.
• Network monitoring and forensic analysis.
• E-mail recovery and analysis.
• Testimony and reporting.