Skill

Digital Forensics

Digital Forensics investigates security incidents and cyber crimes. You'll collect evidence, analyze artifacts, and support legal proceedings.

Investigation

Learning path

Learn forensics fundamentals, practice with forensics tools, understand chain of custody.

Important for forensics analysts, incident responders, investigators.

Analyze a memory image with Volatility
Capture memory from a lab VM after running a few programs, then use Volatility 3 to list processes, network connections and loaded modules.
What you'll have: A short report reconstructing what ran on the machine.
Build a timeline with Autopsy
Image a lab USB drive after adding and deleting files, then use Autopsy to recover them and build a timeline of activity.
What you'll have: A timeline report with the recovered evidence.

EC-Council

Intermediate

Tests recognition of attack techniques across nine domains in a 125-question exam, with an optional six-hour hands-on Practical leading to CEH Master

GIAC

Intermediate

Proves you can detect, contain and investigate attacks by understanding the tools behind them, with hands-on CyberLive tasks in live virtual machines

ISC2

Expert

Proves five years of security experience across eight broad domains, endorsed by a peer and tested on an adaptive exam of up to 150 items