CDFE: Certified Digital Forensics Examiner

Short Course Description

5 Day

COURSE OVERVIEW

Digital Forensics is the investigation and recovery of data contained in digital devices. This data is often the subject of investigations in litigation, proof of guilt, and corrective action in an organization. When the time comes that you need to investigate your organization, will you have the skill set necessary to gather the digital data that you need? The Certified Digital Forensics Examiner course will benefit organizations, individuals, government offices, and law enforcement agencies in performing these investigations and reporting their findings.

To illustrate, let’s say an employee needs to be terminated for a violation of computer usage rules. To do so the organization must furnish an irrefutable burden of proof based on digital evidence. If not irrefutable, an attorney knowledgeable about Digital Forensics could have the case thrown out of court. Government and investigative agencies need proper training to succeed in cases like the above as well as those including acts of fraud, computer misuse, illegal pornography, counterfeiting, and so forth. A C)DFE is aptly prepared to handle these types of situations.

UPON COMPLETION

Students will:

• Have knowledge to perform digital forensic examinations
• Have knowledge to accurately report on their findings from examinations
• Be ready to sit for the C)DFE Exam.

COURSE HISTORY

Computer Forensics as a field was born and developed by U.S. federal law enforcement agents during the mid to late 1980s. New techniques were needed to meet the challenges of white-collar crimes being committed with the assistance of a PC. By 1985 enforcement agents were being trained in the automated environment and by 1989 software and protocols were beginning to emerge in the discipline. Mile2 originally had two forensics courses: CFED (Computer Forensics and Electronic Discovery) and AFCT (Advanced Forensics Computer Techniques). These courses and related materials were created by practitioners in the forensics field. In 2008 CFED and AFCT were combined into the CDFE course. Course content and materials are updated regularly to keep up with technology and concepts in the digital forensics field.