Key Skills for Digital Forensics Essentials

Master the fundamentals of digital forensics

Digital forensics is about uncovering the truth hidden in computers, phones, and networks and doing it in a way that stands up in court. Learn the systematic workflows and industry-standard tools used in real cyber investigations in this online course.

Whether you’re exploring forensics for the first time or building foundational skills, with practical experience.

Understand digital forensics foundations

Learn about chains of custody, legal considerations, and what makes evidence admissible in court.

You’ll explore common artefacts like timelines, registry entries, and volatile memory, and understand investigation models like NIST that guide systematic examinations. Ensuring your findings are defensible and reliable.

Develop evidence acquisition techniques

Proper acquisition creates exact copies without altering originals crucial for court cases. You’ll use tools like FTK Imager for disk acquisition and verification hashing.

You’ll practise live response to capture volatile data from running systems and use write-blockers to prevent accidental modifications. These multiple acquisition methods will prepare you for diverse investigative scenarios.

Perform analysis and generating professional reports

Create timelines that correlate events across file systems and logs. You’ll use Autopsy to do keyword searches and hash matching to help you identify relevant artefacts quickly. Documenting your methodologies and maintaining a chain of custody forms throughout. You’ll be ready to produce court-ready reports that withstand scrutiny.

This course is ideal for cybersecurity beginners, IT professionals, students, and anyone curious about digital investigations and how evidence is analysed.

This course is ideal for cybersecurity beginners, IT professionals, students, and anyone curious about digital investigations and how evidence is analysed.

• Explain the role and scope of digital forensics in cybersecurity investigations.
• Apply standard procedures to collect and preserve digital evidence using forensic tools.
• Perform basic forensic analysis on digital media using industry-standard tools.
• Create concise reports documenting digital evidence and analysis findings.