CIST 0155 - Digital Forensics

3 Credit Hours

This course provides students with the fundamentals of digital forensics and the methods used in the investigation of computer crimes. Students will understand and implement principles and procedures of data forensics. Students will gain the proper knowledge about investigating and illustrating evidence of Cybercrimes including the process of collection, examination, analysis and presentation of the evidence. Topics included in this course (but not limited to) are applications of hardware and software to digital forensics, volume and file system analysis, proper equipment seizure methodology, confiscated materials analysis, follow up processes relating to an incident and computer forensics investigations.

Pre-requisites: CIST 0101 - Computer Concepts and Applications (T►).