JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Pre-Requisites

Cybercrime and Information Warfare, Computer Networks

Course Objectives:

• Provides an in-depth study of the rapidly changing and fascinating field of computer forensics.
• Combines both the technical expertise and the knowledge required to investigate, detect and prevent digital crimes.
• Knowledge on digital forensics legislations, digital crime, forensics processes and procedures, data acquisition and validation, e-discovery tools
• E-evidence collection and preservation, investigating operating systems and file systems, network forensics, art of steganography and mobile device forensics

Course Outcomes

On completion of the course the student should be able to

• Understand relevant legislation and codes of ethics.
• Computer forensics and digital detective and various processes, policies and procedures.
• E-discovery, guidelines and standards, E-evidence, tools and environment.
• Email and web forensics and network forensics.

UNIT - I

Digital Forensics Science: Forensics science, computer forensics, and digital forensics. Computer Crime: Criminalistics as it relates to the investigative process, analysis of cyber- criminalistics area, holistic approach to cyber-forensics

UNIT - II

Cyber Crime Scene Analysis: Discuss the various court orders etc., methods to search and seizure electronic evidence, retrieved and un-retrieved communications, Discuss the importance of understanding what court documents would be required for a criminal investigation.

UNIT - III

Evidence Management & Presentation: Create and manage shared folders using operating system, importance of the forensic mindset, define the workload of law enforcement, Explain what the normal case would look like, Define who should be notified of a crime, parts of gathering evidence, Define and apply probable cause.

UNIT - IV

Computer Forensics: Prepare a case, Begin an investigation, Understand computer forensics workstations and software, Conduct an investigation, Complete a case, Critique a case, Network Forensics: open-source security tools for network forensic analysis, requirements for preservation of network data.

UNIT - V

Mobile Forensics: mobile forensics techniques, mobile forensics tools. Legal Aspects of Digital Forensics: IT Act 2000, amendment of IT Act 2008. Recent trends in mobile forensic technique and methods to search and seizure electronic evidence

R19 M. TECH. CN/CNIS/CYBER SECURITY

References:

• 1. John Sammons, The Basics of Digital Forensics, Elsevier
• 2. John Vacca, Computer Forensics: Computer Crime Scene Investigation, Laxmi Publications R19 M. TECH. CN/CNIS/CYBER SECURITY M. Tech. (CNIS/CN/Cyber Security) – II Year – I Semester Common to CNIS, CN and Cyber Security