Digital Forensics
Task 1: Reflection on Hands-On Projects
Complete the following Hands-On Projects at the end of Chapter 1 in the textbook (Nelson, Phillips, & Steuart, 2015):
Hands-On Project 1-1
Hands-On Project 1-2
Hands-On Project 1-3
Hands-On Project 1-4
Hands-On Project 1-5
Deliverable: Write a 300-500 words reflection on five things learned or discovered by completing these projects, commenting individually on each project.
Task 2: Case Project
Complete the Hands-On Project 4-3 the M57 Patents case. (Nelson, Phillips, & Steuart, 2015, p. 177)
Deliverable: Write a 300-500 words paper explaining the importance of the files you examined. How might they affect a patent case. Provide screen shots of the steps completed in the project.
Task 3: Research Project
As part of the duties of a digital forensics examiner, creating an investigation plan is a standard practice. Write a paper that describes how you would organise an investigation for a potential fraud case. Also, list the methods that you plan to use to validate collected data from storage devices such as MS Word, MS Excel and emails, with hashes. Specify the hash algorithm you plan to use, such as MD5 or SHA1.
Deliverable: Write a 300-500 word report that outlines standard investigation management and data validation methods.
Rationale
This assessment item covers digital crime, forensic process and procedures, data acquisition and validation, e-evidence, e-discovery tools and equipment. This assessment has been designed to ensure that you are engaging with the subject content on a regular basis. More specifically it covers the learning outcomes:
- determine the legal and ethical considerations for investigating and prosecuting digital crimes
- formulate a digital forensics process
- evaluate the technology in digital forensics to detect, prevent and recover from digital crimes
- analyse data on storage media and various file systems
- collect electronic evidence without compromising the original data
- evaluate the functions and features of digital forensics equipment, the environment and the tools for a digital forensics lab
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