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Certified Hacker Forensic Investigator (CHFI)

Course Description

Computer hacking forensic investigation is the process of detecting hacking attacks and properly extracting evidence to report the crime and conduct audits to prevent future attacks. Computer forensics is simply the application of computer investigation and analysis techniques in the interests of determining potential legal evidence. Evidence might be sought in a wide range of computer crime or misuse, including but not limited to theft of trade secrets, theft of or destruction of intellectual property, and fraud. CHFI investigators can draw on an array of methods for discovering data that resides in a computer system, or recovering deleted, encrypted, or damaged file information.

Securing and analyzing electronic evidence is a central theme in an ever-increasing number of conflict situations and criminal cases.

Computer forensics enables the systematic and careful identification of evidence in computer related crime and abuse cases. This may range from tracing the tracks of a hacker through a client’s systems, to tracing the originator of defamatory emails, to recovering signs of fraud.

This CHFI course will provide participants the necessary skills to identify an intruder’s footprints and to properly gather the necessary evidence to prosecute in the court of law.

Course Content

Module 1: Computer Forensics in Today’s World
Module 2: Law And Computer Forensics
Module 3: Computer Investigation Process
Module 4: Computer Security Incident Response Team
Module 5: Computer Forensic Laboratory Requirements
Module 6: Understanding File systems and Hard disks
Module 7: Windows Forensics
Hodule 8: Linux and Macintosh Boot processes
Module 9: Linux Forensics
Module 10: Data Acquisition and Duplication
Module 11: Recovering Deleted Files
Module 12: Image Files Forensics
Module 13: Steganography
Module 14: Computer Forensic Tools
Module 15: Application password crackers
Module 16: Investigating Logs
Module 17: Investigating network traffic
Module 18: Router Forensics
Module 19: Investigating Web Attacks
Module 20: Tracking E-mails and Investigating E-mail crimes
Module 21: Mobile and PDA Forensics
Module 22: Investigating Trademark and Copyright Infringement
Module 23: Investigative Reports
Module 24: Becoming an Expert Witness
Module 25: Forensics in action