In Fall 2024, I was enrolled in two Masters level Digital Forensics Classes; DFOR 660 and DFOR 510. DFOR 660 is all about what evidence there is to extract over a network; and how you can actually accomplish that. DFOR 510 is the basics of digital forensics. We cover a wide range of topics, such as write-blocking, forensic sanitizing, chain of custody, legal precedent and processes, memory forensics; and much, much more.
In DFOR 510, my required programs are: FTK Imager, a forensic case creation and analysis tool, PyCharm Community Edition to write python, Redline, an endpoint security tool that does memory and file analysis for Indicators Of Compromise (IOCs) and HxD, a hex editor to inspect the lower-level data on a storage medium such as a flash storage or Hard Drive.
| Fall 2024 | Spring 2025 | Fall 2025 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFOR 660, Network Forensics | DFOR 661, Digital Media Forensics | DFOR 710, Fraud Analytics | DFOR 767, Penetration Testing in Digital Forensics |
| DFOR 510, Digital Forensics Analysis | DFOR 664, Incident Response Forensics | DFOR 670, Mobile Device Forensics | DFOR 772, Forensic Artifact Extraction |
| DFOR 761, Malware Reverse Engineering | DFOR 790, Advanced Digital Forensics |
