Printable 312-49 PDF, 312-49 Certification

• Types of Computer Crimes
• Impact of Cybercrimes at Organizational Level
• Cyber Crime Investigation
• Challenges Cyber Crimes Present for Investigators
• Network Attacks
• Indicators of Compromise (IOC)
• Web Application Threats
• Challenges in Web Application Forensics
• Indications of a Web Attack
• What is Anti-Forensics?
• Anti-Forensics Techniques

- Understand the fundamentals of computer forensics and determine the roles and responsibilities of forensic investigators

• Understanding Computer Forensics
• Need for Computer Forensics
• Why and When Do You Use Computer Forensics?
• Forensic Readiness
• Forensic Readiness and Business Continuity
• Forensics Readiness Planning
• Incident Response
• Computer Forensics as part of Incident Response Plan
• Overview of Incident Response Process Flow
• Role of SOC in Computer Forensics
• Need for Forensic Investigator
• Roles and Responsibilities of Forensics Investigator
• What makes a Good Computer Forensics Investigator?
• Code of Ethics
• Accessing Computer Forensics Resources
• Other Factors That Influence Forensic Investigations
• Introduction to Web Application Forensics
• Introduction to Network Forensics
• Postmortem and Real-Time Analys

- Understand data acquisition concepts and rules

• Understanding Data Acquisition
• Live Acquisition
• Order of Volatility
• Dead Acquisition
• Rules of Thumb for Data Acquisition
• Types of Data Acquisition
• Determine the Data Acquisition Format

- Understand the fundamental concepts and working of databases, cloud computing, Emails, IOT, Malware (file and fileless), and dark web

• Understanding Dark Web
• TOR Relays
• How TOR Browser works
• TOR Bridge Node
• Internal architecture of MySQL
• Structure of data directory
• Introduction to Cloud Computing
• Types of Cloud Computing Services
• Cloud Deployment Models
• Cloud Computing Threats
• Cloud Computing Attacks
• Introduction to an email system
• Components involved in email communication
• How email communication works
• Understanding parts of an email message
• Introduction to Malware
• Components of Malware
• Common Techniques Attackers Use to Distribute Malware across Web
• Introduction to Fileless Malware
• Infection Chain of Fileless Malware
• How Fileless Attack Works via Memory Exploits
• How Fileless Attack Happens Via Websites
• How Fileless Attack Happens Via Documents
• What is IoT?
• IoT Architecture
• IoT Security Problems
• OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities
• IoT Threats
• IoT Attack Surface Areas

• Introduction to Digital Evidence
• Types of Digital Evidence
• Characteristics of Digital Evidence
• Role of Digital Evidence
• Sources of Potential Evidence
• Understanding Hard Disk
• Understanding Solid State Drive (SSD)
• RAID Storage System
• NAS/SAN Storage
• Disk Interfaces
• Logical Structure of Disks

- Understand the fundamental concepts and working of desktop and mobile Operating Systems

• What is the Booting Process?
• Essential Windows System Files
• Windows Boot Process: BIOS-MBR Method
• Windows Boot Process: UEFI-GPT
• Macintosh Boot Process
• Linux Boot Process
• Windows File Systems
• Linux File Systems
• Mac OS X File Systems
• MAC Forensics Data
• MAC Log Files
• MAC Directories
• CD-ROM / DVD File System
• Virtual File System (VFS) and Universal Disk Format File System (UDF)
• Architectural Layers of Mobile Device Environment
• Android Architecture Stack
• Android Boot Process
• iOS Architecture
• iOS Boot Process
• Mobile Storage and Evidence Locations
• Mobile Phone Evidence Analysis
• Data Acquisition Methods
• Components of Cellular Network
• Different Cellular Networks
• Cell Site Analysis: Analyzing Service Provider Data
• CDR Contents
• Subscriber Identity Module (SIM)
• Different types of network-based evidence

- Understand different types of logs and their importance in forensic investigations

• Understanding Events
• Types of Logon Events
• Event Log File Format
• Organization of Event Records
• ELF_LOGFILE_HEADER structure
• EventLogRecord Structure
• Windows 10 Event Logs
• Other Audit Events
• Evaluating Account Management Events
• Log files as evidence
• Legal criteria for admissibility of logs as evidence
• Guidelines to ensure log file credibility and usability
• Ensure log file authenticity
• Maintain log file integrity
• Implement centralized log management
• IIS Web Server Architecture
• IIS Logs
• Analyzing IIS Logs
• Apache Web Server Architecture
• Apache Web Server Logs
• Apache Access Logs
• Apache Error Logs

- Understand various encoding standards and analyze various file types

• Character Encoding Standard: ASCII
• Character Encoding Standard: UNICODE
• OFFSET
• Understanding Hex Editors
• Understanding Hexadecimal Notation
• Image File Analysis: JPEG
• Image File Analysis: BMP
• Understanding EXIF data
• Hex View of Popular Image File Formats
• PDF File Analysis
• Word File Analysis
• PowerPoint File Analysis
• Excel File Analysis
• Hex View of Other Popular File Formats

- Understand the fundamental working of WAF and MySQL Database

• Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• Benefits of WAF
• Limitations of WAF
• Data Storage in SQL Server
• Database Evidence Repositories
• MySQL Forensics
• Viewing the Information Schema
• MySQL Utility Programs for Forensic Analysis

• Rules of Evidence
• Best Evidence Rule
• Federal Rules of Evidence
• Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE)
• ACPO Principles of Digital Evidence
• Seeking Consent
• Obtaining Witness Signatures
• Obtaining Warrant for Search and Seizure
• Searches Without a Warrant
• Initial Search of the Scene
• Preserving Evidence
• Chain of Custody
• Sanitize the Target Media
• Records of Regularly Conducted Activity as Evidence
• Division of Responsibilities

- Understand different laws and legal issues that impact forensic investigations

• Computer Forensics: Legal Issues
• Computer Forensics: Privacy Issues
• Computer Forensics and Legal Compliance
• Other Laws that May Influence Computer Forensics
• U.S. Laws Against Email Crime: CAN-SPAM Act

• Forensic investigation process
• Importance of the Forensic investigation process
• Setting up a computer forensics lab
• Building the investigation team
• Understanding the hardware and software requirements of a forensic lab
• Validating laboratory software and hardware
• Ensuring quality assurance
• First response basics
• First response by non-forensics staff
• First response by system/network administrators
• First response by laboratory forensics staff
• Documenting the electronic crime scene
• Search and seizure
• Evidence preservation
• Data acquisition
• Data analysis
• Case analysis
• Reporting
• Testify as an expert witness
• Generating Investigation Report
• Mobile Forensics Process
• Mobile Forensics Report Template
• Sample Mobile Forensic Analysis Worksheet

- Understand the methodology to acquire data from different types of evidence

• Data Acquisition Methodology
• Step 1: Determine the Best Data Acquisition Method
• Step 2: Select the Data Acquisition Tool
• Step 3: Sanitize the Target Media
• Step 4: Acquire Volatile Data
• Acquire Data From a Hard Disk
• Remote Data Acquisition
• Step 5: Enable Write Protection on the Evidence Media
• Step 6: Acquire Non-Volatile Data
• Step 7: Plan for Contingency
• Step 8: Validate Data Acquisition Using
• Collecting Volatile Information
• Collecting Non-Volatile Information
• Collecting Volatile Database Data
• Collecting Primary Data File and Active Transaction Logs Using SQLCMD
• Collecting Primary Data File and Transaction Logs
• Collecting Active Transaction Logs Using SQL Server Management Studio
• Collecting Database Plan Cache
• Collecting Windows Logs
• Collecting SQL Server Trace Files
• Collecting SQL Server Error Logs

- Illustrate Image/Evidence Examination and Event Correlation

• Getting an Image Ready for Examination
• Viewing an Image on a Windows, Linux and Mac Forensic Workstations
• Windows Memory Analysis
• Windows Registry Analysis
• File System Analysis Using Autopsy
• File System Analysis Using The Sleuth Kit (TSK)
• Event Correlation
• Types of Event Correlation
• Prerequisites of Event Correlation
• Event Correlation Approaches

- Explain Dark Web and Malware Forensics

• Dark web forensics
• Identifying TOR Browser Artifacts: Command Prompt
• Identifying TOR Browser Artifacts: Windows Registry
• Identifying TOR Browser Artifacts: Prefetch Files
• Introduction to Malware Forensics
• Why Analyze Malware?
• Malware Analysis Challenges
• Identifying and Extracting Malware
• Prominence of Setting up a Controlled Malware Analysis Lab
• Preparing Testbed for Malware Analysis
• Supporting Tools for Malware Analysis
• General Rules for Malware Analysis
• Documentation Before Analysis
• Types of Malware Analysis