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The Computer Hacking Forensics Certificate is designed for cybersecurity professionals, digital forensics specialists, SOC analysts, and incident response teams seeking advanced skills in investigating, analyzing, and handling cybercrime evidence. This course prepares you to conduct comprehensive forensic investigations across a wide range of digital environments.

The program focuses on digital evidence collection, forensic analysis, data recovery, cyber incident investigation, and legal compliance. You’ll learn how to uncover malicious activities, trace attack origins, preserve digital evidence, and generate legally sound forensic reports for use in investigations and litigation.

Key topics include:

• Forensics fundamentals: principles, legal considerations, and investigation methodologies

• Digital evidence handling: acquisition, preservation, documentation, and chain of custody

• Disk, memory, and file system forensics: recovering deleted files and analyzing hidden artifacts

• Network forensics: tracing intrusions, analyzing packet captures, and identifying attack vectors

• Malware forensics: dissecting malicious executables and identifying persistence mechanisms

• Cloud and mobile forensics: investigating virtualized environments and smartphone evidence

• Incident response integration: coordinating forensic findings with IR teams for faster remediation

• Legal and regulatory compliance: ensuring adherence to GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27037, and other frameworks

Forensics fundamentals: principles, legal considerations, and investigation methodologies

Digital evidence handling: acquisition, preservation, documentation, and chain of custody

Disk, memory, and file system forensics: recovering deleted files and analyzing hidden artifacts

Network forensics: tracing intrusions, analyzing packet captures, and identifying attack vectors

Malware forensics: dissecting malicious executables and identifying persistence mechanisms

Cloud and mobile forensics: investigating virtualized environments and smartphone evidence

Incident response integration: coordinating forensic findings with IR teams for faster remediation

Legal and regulatory compliance: ensuring adherence to GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27037, and other frameworks

The course includes practice tests simulating real-world forensic scenarios, such as recovering encrypted data, analyzing compromised servers, tracking insider threats, and investigating ransomware attacks. Each question includes detailed explanations to strengthen your forensic investigation skills.

By completing this course, you’ll be well prepared for roles such as Digital Forensics Investigator, Incident Response Specialist, SOC Analyst, Cybercrime Investigator, or Forensic Consultant — enabling organizations to investigate, analyze, and remediate cyber incidents with precision and compliance.