Digital Forensics

Module 115 hrs5 topics

Foundations: Hardware, OS & Indian Cyber Law

How modern computers store data, how operating systems boot and lay out files, the cyber crime taxonomy a digital forensic examiner needs, and the Indian statutory frame: IT Act 2000, BNS 2023 cyber sections, BSA 2023 Section 63.

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Computer Hardware Fundamentals for Forensic ExaminersMotherboard to NVMe SSD, register-level volatility to TRIM destruction, mapped onto IT Act 2000, BSA 2023 Section 63.14 min14 min
Operating Systems, Boot Process and File SystemsUEFI to MFT to APFS snapshots, MAC timestamps, file slack and shadow copies, mapped to BSA 2023 Section 63 admissibility.15 min15 min
Cyber Crime Taxonomy and the IT Act 2000The Indian cyber crime taxonomy a digital forensic examiner must know, mapped onto the IT Act 2000 sections, the ITAA 2008 amendment, and the post Shreya Singhal frame.10 min10 min
BNS 2023 Cyber Provisions and BSA 2023 Electronic EvidenceHow BNS 2023 cyber sections and BSA 2023 Section 63 frame electronic evidence in Indian trials, with Anvar PV, Arjun Pandit Rao Khotkar and Shafhi Mohammad mapped onto practice.10 min10 min
The Digital First Responder: Order of Volatility, Seizure and ImagingHow a digital first responder handles a live computer scene in India: order of volatility under RFC 3227, RAM capture, write blockers, dd vs E01 vs AFF4 imaging, dual hashing, and BSA Sec 63 admissibility.14 min14 min

Module 218 hrs5 topics

Computer Forensics: OS Artifacts & Data Recovery

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Windows, Linux and macOS artifact-level forensics: registry, event logs, prefetch, ShellBags, ADS, plist, Keychain, Time Machine; plus file carving and recovery from formatted, hidden and encrypted storage.

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Module 312 hrs4 topics

Internet, Email & Surveillance Forensics

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Web browser artifact recovery, email header tracing and spoofed-mail investigation, DVR/NVR surveillance forensics, and how virtual machines and cloud-backed endpoints change the examiner's playbook.

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Module 418 hrs6 topics

Network Forensics

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Networking fundamentals to live capture: OSI/TCP-IP, network attack taxonomy, wireless attacks across WEP/WPA/WPA2/WPA3, defence architecture, packet capture and DPI, and malware static + dynamic analysis.

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Module 512 hrs4 topics

Cloud Forensics & Anti-Forensics

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Cloud technology, virtualization and the multi-tenant problem; cloud forensics challenges across IaaS/PaaS/SaaS; logging, VM snapshot acquisition and incident response; plus anti-forensic techniques and the counter-moves.

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Module 618 hrs6 topics

Mobile, Wireless & IoT Forensics

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Mobile network generations and SIM/IMEI fundamentals, Android and iOS forensics with SQLite, wireless and mobile network attacks, the acquisition stack from logical to chip-off, mobile cloud backups and IoT device forensics.

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Module 715 hrs6 topics

Social Media Forensics & Cryptography

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Social media crime taxonomy and evidence collection across APIs and OSINT, plus the cryptography a digital forensic examiner must understand: symmetric and asymmetric systems, hashing, PKI, digital signatures, cryptanalysis and Diffie-Hellman.

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Digital Forensics

Digital Forensics