Certified Professional Forensic Analyst (CPFA)

The term cyber-crime no longer refers only to hackers and other external attackers. Almost all every case of financial fraud or employee misuse involves a very strong element of computer-based evidence. NII Consulting has been providing professional computer forensics services to clients for the past four years. It now brings together its consolidated expertise into a three-day hands-on workshop on Certified Professional Forensic Analyst (CPFA).The entire workshop is driven by hands-on exercises and case studies to ensure that all aspects have a real-life scenario-based approach.

Course Contents

Session One: Computer Crime – Case Studies Threat Scenarios   Module 1:Hacking Incidents   Module 2: Financial Theft   Module 3: Corporate Espionage   Module 4: Email Misuse   Module 5:Pornography

Session Two: Introduction to Certified Professional Forensics Analyst   Module 6: Defining the Forensics Process   Module 7: Digital Forensics Essentials - Learning the ropes   Module 8: The 6 A's   Module 9: Preserving “Chain of Custody”   Module 10: Investigative Guidelines   Module 11: Disk-based Forensics vs. Network-based Forensics   Module 12: Analysis of the Indian IT Act 2000

Session Three: Disk-based Forensics - Data Acquisition and Analysis Case Study   Module 13: Forensically sound evidence collection   Module 14:Imaging using Encase® and Helix®   Module 15: Conducting Physical And Logical Analysis   Module 16: Recovering Deleted Files

Session Four: Real-Life Scenarios - System-based Forensics   Module 17: System Intrusion case study - Windows Box owned   Module 18: Computer Intrusion case study - Linux Box owned   Module 19: Deconstructing rootkits   Module 20: Reverse Engineering unknown binaries and bots   Module 21: Internet misuse case study - Browser Forensics

Session Five: Real-Life Scenarios - Network-based Forensics   Module 22: Network Intrusion – Web Server Hacked   Module 23: Network Intrusion – Denial of Service Attack   Module 24: Network Intrusion – ex-employee mischief   Module 25: Digging deep into the cyber world - Email   Module 26: Tracing case study   Module 27: Forensics for PDA and hand-held devices   Module 28: Defeating anti-forensic measures – disk wiping, formatting, hiding partitions, anonymizers, etc   Module 29: Documenting the Investigation   Module 30: Closing discussion

This program addresses the key questions of:

• What should one do when there is a suspicion of a computer-based crime?
• What tools and techniques are most likely to yield the right set of clues?
• How should the investigation be carried out such that it can be presented in a court of law?
• Hands-on practice with the worlds’ leading forensics tool – Encase
• Helps you prepare for the SANS GCFA and EC-Council’s CHFI
• Become a IIS Certified Forensics Professional (ICFP)