Digital Forensics

Program Description:

River Valley Community College, in association with Program Development in Cybersecurity with Focus on Business and Healthcare Concepts, has developed a 4-semester program to prepare students to working the Information Assurance (IA) field with a focus on Cybersecurity and Healthcare IT. Courses are intended to prepare students for assuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of IT systems and networks in healthcare settings, where scheduling, storage of images, filling prescriptions, billing and more are handled and stored using information technology.

Course Description:

This Course from River Valley Community College center focuses on digital forensics, and asks students to consider procedures of tracking, analyzing, and patching security holes after an incident has occurred, including seizure of equipment, analysis of confiscated materials, and follow up procedures relating to the incident. In completing the course, students will have an understanding of: 1) Computer Forensics investigation techniques, 2) Investigation techniques for Windows and DOS Systems, 3) Investigation techniques for Macintosh and Linux Systems, 4) Computer forensics tools, 5) Digital evidence controls, 6) Processing crime and incident scenes, 7) Data acquisition, 8) Computer forensic analysis, 9) E-mail investigations, 10) Recovering image files 11) Writing investigation reports, and 12) Becoming an expert witness.

Resources available as part of this course include a course outline and a syllabus from the Fall 2015 iteration of the course.

For orientation purposes, viewers should begin with CYBS 250R Digital Forensics.pdf, which offers a description of the course as well as an overview of topics covered through a course outline.

Course Contents:

The 4-page Course Outline document includes a course description, course competencies, course topics outline, learning and instructional methods for the course, and performance evaluation information.

The 5-page syllabus document includes a course description, information on required materials, overview of course structure and policies, course structure and content in the form of a table, and information on assessment and grading of the course.

Below is a list of the files attached. The size of each file is included in parenthesis.

Digital Forensics (2 files)

• Digital Forensics Course Outline (CCYBS 250R Digital Forensics.pdf 203KB)
• Digital Forensics Syllabus (Syllabus CYBS 250R Digital Forensics Fall 2015.pdf 225KB)