This course focuses on providing students practical hands-on experiences on digital forensics, cyber-crime scene analysis and electronic discovery. Topics include technical methodologies and formal procedures for conducting forensic investigations; data acquisition, data recovery, file systems and storage analysis, file carving, data hiding and steganography, anti-forensics, network, and mobile forensics; projects involving using, understanding, and designing digital forensics tools. This course enrolls high school teachers based on their education, teaching, and/or professional experience. They must have earned the equivalent of a four-year U.S. bachelor’s degree to be considered for enrollment. This course is not eligible for credit for the BS/MS programs (either via MS-CS or MS-SEC), MS-CS, MS-SEC, or PhD-CS degrees.
CS 596: Advanced Digital Forensics and Incident Response for Teachers
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