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300447 Computer Forensics Workshop

Note: detailed information and materials for the workshop are stored on a separate Web site, which is updated when the course is delivered.

300447 Computer Forensics Workshop (level UG 300, Penrith campus) is the capstone unit for the Computer Forensics Major, available for Bachelor of Computer Science students. Delivery: 13 weekly lectures, 2 hours/week, and 10 weekly Computer Lab Workshops, 4 hours/week. The lecture and lab are scheduled on the same day of the week. The unit’s assessment is all continuous, there is no final exam.

The workshop covers the following topics:

• Documentation and presentation standards;
• Media preparation and copying techniques;
• File system structures and file type identification techniques;
• Introduction to applied cryptography and steganography;
• The location, structure, and interpretation of log and cache based data associated with operating systems, web and email systems, and the network;
• Selected industry standard software tools.