COURSES

Goals

Digitalforensics is science and art of gathering chains of digital evidence through legally compliant procedures with usage of various forensic tools that enable the investigator to reconstruct criminally liable actions at the physical and logical levels. In the information age the digital forensics has increasingly important role with widespread usage of digital technologies both in business processes and private life. The main objective of the course is to provide the students theoretical and practical knowledge in digital forensics. For this purpose the students will be introduced to various forms of computer crime and motivations of criminal activity. Current aspects of national and world wide legislation and practice will be discussed and related to digital forensics methodologies proposed and used for digital evidence provisioning. In the course a number of digital forensic tools will be presented and practically tested. Gained knowledge will enable the students to continue research and development in the field, which is expected to be carried out already through individual work in the course.

Curriculum

Introduction: definition of basic concepts, technology, legislation, norms, market; information systems, security, computer crime, countermeasures, digital forensic Computer crime: nature and classification of computer crime, motivation for crime; computer crime, technological overview, network and host attacks, malicious software, denial of service, software piracy, intellectual property, privacy abuse, social engineering, corporate espionage, racism, xenophobia; technological countermeasures Computer crime and legalization: basic legalization documents and conventions, European Union, United states; Slovenian legislation compared to other legislations, legislation practice, national and international institutions cooperation, Corporate security policies Digital forensics: , digital evidence, digital forensics methodologies, technology and legalization interrelations; digital forensic and operating systems, storage, mobile systems, applications and networked systems Basic digital forensics tools: digital forensic laboratory; basic commercial and open source forensic tools Practical examples of digital forensics tools: examples of tool usage, e.g. X-WAYS and SleuthKit