Course Summary
This course offers comprehensive insights into Microsoft Windows operating systems from a digital forensics viewpoint. Understanding the forensic capabilities and artifacts of Windows is crucial for effective information security because you cannot defend against what you don’t fully comprehend. Throughout this course, you will learn how to recover, analyze, and validate forensic data on Windows systems, track user activity across your network, and structure findings to support incident response, internal investigations, intellectual property theft probes, and civil or criminal litigation.
By the end of the course, you’ll possess the skills to validate security tools, conduct thorough vulnerability assessments, detect insider threats, trace malicious activity, and enhance security policies. Windows systems, often unnoticed, continuously record a wealth of data regarding user and system activities. This course will teach you how to harness that data, enabling you to detect potential threats and strengthen your organization’s security defenses.
Course highlights include:
Windows Forensics and Data Triage: Mastering the fundamentals of digital forensics specific to Windows.
Windows Registry Forensics: Understanding registry artifacts, USB device history, shell items, email forensics, and log analysis.
Advanced Web Browser Forensics: Analyzing browser data from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox for traces of user activity and potential malicious actions.
You will also explore methods for recovering deleted or hidden files, analyzing system logs, understanding user behavior patterns, and uncovering traces of malware or unauthorized activity. This course equips you with the knowledge to better secure Windows environments and to efficiently investigate and respond to incidents.
Browser Forensic Artifacts
The candidate will demonstrate understanding of the forensic value of browser artifacts.
Browser Structure and Analysis
The candidate will demonstrate understanding of common browser structure and analysis techniques.
Cloud Storage Analysis
The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of the artifacts created by the installation and use of cloud storage solutions and how they can be used during forensic examinations.
Digital Forensic Fundamentals
The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of forensic methodology and key concepts, and be familiar with Windows filesystems and registry structure.
Email Analysis
The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of the forensic examination of email communications, including client, web-based, mobile, and M365.
Event Log Analysis
The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of the purpose of the various types of Windows event, service and application logs, and the forensic value that they can provide.
File and Program Analysis
The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of the artifacts created by the Windows operating system during the execution of programs, or activity specific to folders and files.
Forensic Artifact Techniques
The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of the approach and tools used to collect forensic evidence required for triage analysis.
System and Device Analysis
The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of file access artifacts created by the Windows operating system and USB devices.
User Artifact Analysis
The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of the artifacts created by user account(s) and activity on current Windows operating systems.
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