When a breach happens, the attacker is usually long gone. What remains is evidence, scattered across disks, log files, and memory, waiting for someone who knows how to read it. Computer Forensics teaches students to become that person, reconstructing what happened, when it happened, and who was behind it, with the rigor that holds up not just technically but legally.<\/p>\n
The course establishes the fundamentals first, covering key technical concepts along with the legal and ethical considerations that separate a sound investigation from an inadmissible one. Students then learn proper data acquisition, the critical first step where careless handling can destroy the very evidence they came to collect. From there, they work through disk and file system analysis and examine artifacts across Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, discovering that every operating system keeps its own record of what users and programs have done.<\/p>\n
Investigations rarely stop at the machine itself, so students also explore internet artifacts and file and archive analysis, tracing activity that reaches beyond the local system. The course then brings everything together through timeline analysis and correlation of artifacts, turning scattered fragments into a coherent narrative of an incident. Along the way, students learn scripting and automation for forensic tasks, giving them the efficiency to handle the volume of data that real cases demand, and the reporting skills to present their findings clearly and credibly.<\/p>\n
What You Will Achieve<\/strong><\/p>\n Upon completing this course, students will be able to define the fundamental concepts, principles, and processes of computer forensics, including its legal and ethical considerations, use appropriate forensic tools and techniques to acquire, analyze, and interpret digital evidence across various operating systems, file systems, and network environments, and apply computer forensic methodologies to conduct artifact analysis, timeline reconstruction, and reporting, supported by automation and scripting for forensic tasks.<\/p>\n Topics Covered<\/strong><\/p>\n Digital Forensic Fundamentals, Key Technical Concepts, Data Acquisition, Disk and File System Analysis, Windows Systems Artifacts, Linux Systems and Artifacts, Mac OS X Systems and Artifacts, Internet Artifacts, File and Archives Analysis, Timeline Analysis and Correlation of Artifacts, and Scripting and Automation for Forensic Tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When a breach happens, the attacker is usually long gone. What remains is evidence, scattered across disks, log files, and memory, waiting for someone who knows how to read it. Computer Forensics teaches students to become that person, reconstructing what happened, when it happened, and who was behind it, with the rigor that holds up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":73051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socs.binus.ac.id\/cyber-security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socs.binus.ac.id\/cyber-security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socs.binus.ac.id\/cyber-security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socs.binus.ac.id\/cyber-security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socs.binus.ac.id\/cyber-security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/socs.binus.ac.id\/cyber-security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73037,"href":"https:\/\/socs.binus.ac.id\/cyber-security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73022\/revisions\/73037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socs.binus.ac.id\/cyber-security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socs.binus.ac.id\/cyber-security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socs.binus.ac.id\/cyber-security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socs.binus.ac.id\/cyber-security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}