Module 4: Digital Forensics
Time Required: 1 Hour
Module 4: Digital Forensics
Time Required: 1 Hour
4.1 Module outline and expected learning outcomes
- Digital forensics is the identification, recovery and analysis of data from electronic devices
4.2 Common data structures
- Data structures are one of the fundamentals of Computer Science and refer to the means or organising and storing data in computers
- How data is stored physically on drives
4.3 Introduction to Binary and Hex
- Introduction to the mathematical concepts that enable computers to store, process and communicate information
- Convert positive denary whole numbers (0-255) into 2 hexadecimal numbers and vice versa
- Convert between binary and hexadecimal
- Explain the use of hexadecimal numbers to represent binary numbers
4.4 Forensic analysis on data
- Data acquisition and validation
- Introduction and comparisons of acquisition methods
- Validating forensic software
- Data hiding techniques
- How to capture a forensic image
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