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Digital Forensics & Incident Response Masterclass

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Digital Forensics & Incident Response Masterclass: a self-paced PACI course with 27 lessons in 10 sections and a quiz after each section.

  • Cybersecurity & IT
  • English language
  • Beginner

What you’ll learn

  • Disk & Momory lmaging for Digital Investigations
  • Disk Forensics With Autopsy Tool
  • Windows Forensice Logs Processes & Network Analysis
  • Execution Artifacts LNK AmCache & Prefetch Analysis
  • Recovering Deleted Multimedia Evidence
  • Persistence Mechanisms in Cyber Attacks

About this course

Digital Forensics & Incident Response Masterclass is a self-paced recorded course from the Punjab Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Initiative (PACI). It has 27 lessons in 10 sections (19 video lessons, 8 quizzes). What the course covers: - Disk & Momory lmaging for Digital Investigations - Disk Forensics With Autopsy Tool - Windows Forensice Logs Processes & Network Analysis - Execution Artifacts LNK AmCache & Prefetch Analysis - Recovering Deleted Multimedia Evidence - Persistence Mechanisms in Cyber Attacks - Threat Hunting & IOC Creation - Investigating Email Attacks

Course content

10 modules · 27 lessons

01Section 1 Welcome & Incident Response [DFIR] Masterclass3 lessons
  • 1. Start
  • 2. Quick Start Guide What to Expect
  • Quiz
02Section 2 Disk & Momory lmaging for Digital Investigations3 lessons
  • 3. Disk Imaging with FTK Imager – Evidence Collection
  • 4. Memory Capture with Dumpit – Volatile Data Acquisition
  • Quiz
03Section 3 Disk Forensics With Autopsy Tool3 lessons
  • 5. Autopsy Lab Part 1 – Exploring File Systems &
  • 6. Autopsy Lab Part 2 – Evidence Extraction
  • Quiz
04Section 4 . Windows Forensice Logs Processes & Network Analysis6 lessons
  • 7. Analyzing Event Logs
  • 8. Process Forensics – Detecting Malicious Executions
  • 9. Network Connection Analysis – Tracing Attackers
  • 10. User Account Forensics – Permissions &
  • 11. Extracting Complete Previous Activity of Users
  • Quiz
05Section 5. Execution Artifacts LNK AmCache & Prefetch Analysis4 lessons
  • 12. Shortcut File (LNK) Forensics – Attack Traces
  • 13. AmCache Artifact Analysis – Installed Apps & History
  • 14. Prefetch File Forensics – Execution History Timeline
  • Quiz
06Section 6. Recovering Deleted Multimedia Evidence1 lessons
  • 15. Thumbnail Cache Forensics – Deleted Image
07Section 7 Persistence Mechanisms in Cyber Attacks3 lessons
  • 16. Scheduled Task Forensics – Hidden Execution
  • 17. Autorun Key Analysis – Malware Persistence Tactics
  • Quiz
08Section 8 Threat Hunting & IOC Creation1 lessons
  • 18. Creating & Executing IOCs – Hunt Like a Pro
09Section 9 Investigating Email Attacks2 lessons
  • 19. Email Header & Body Analysis – Identifying Phishing
  • Quiz
10Final Exam1 lessons
  • Final Exam

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Punjab Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Initiative

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