Digital Forensics Fundamentals
  • Type Validation
  • Level Foundational
  • Time Weeks
  • Cost Free

Digital Forensics Fundamentals

Issued by QA Ltd

Earners of this badge have demonstrated fundamental digital forensics skills, gaining the ability to conduct data recovery investigations, disc image analysis, and forensic analysis investigations. Practical hands-on achievements include - timeline analysis, hash filtering, keyword searches, artifact discovery, data carving, multimedia (EXIF) analysis, ophcrack analysis, and registry explorer investigation.

  • Type Validation
  • Level Foundational
  • Time Weeks
  • Cost Free

Skills

Earning Criteria

  • Earners have completed the following: established investigative timelines, flagged known bad files, and bypassed known good files during investigative searches. Conducted indexed keyword searches to identify files with terms relevant to the investigation. Extracted browser history, bookmarks, cookies, search terms from several search engines. Recovered deleted files from unallocated or slack space on the target computer system. Extracted EXIF data from recovered photos and reconstructed videos.