CCFP Certified Cyber Forensics Professional validates expertise in digital forensics and cybersecurity investigations.

Course Objectives

  • Analyze the nature of evidence, chain of custody, rules of procedure, and the role of expert witness as they pertain to the legal and ethical principles, concepts, methodologies, and their implementation within centralized and decentralized environments across an organization's computing environment
  • Demonstrate an understanding of investigations as they relate to data communications in local area and wide area networks, remote access, and Internet/intranet/extranet configurations
  • Analyze fundamental principles, forensic methods, forensic analysis and examination planning, and evaluate report writing and presentations as they relate to forensic science, applying a broad spectrum of science and technologies to investigate and establish facts in relation to criminal or civil law
  • Analyze media and file systems, computer and operating systems, network, mobile devices, embedded devices, multimedia and content, virtual system forensics and the techniques and tools used in the collection of any digital evidence that can be defined as data or transmitted via electronic means
  • Apply software forensics to file formats and metadata; analyze web, email, and messaging forensics; and understand database forensics and malware forensics

Upcoming Schedules

Course Prerequisites

Required

  • Professional experience in forensics is required and will greatly enhance the learning environment.

Course Outline

  • Module 1: Nature and Characteristics of Evidence
  • Module 2: Chain of Custody
  • Module 3: Rules of Procedure
  • Module 4: Code of Ethics