ITS-2571 - Digital Forensics & Incident Response (3)

Prerequisite: ITS-2511
This course provides an in-depth exploration of digital forensics and incident response, leveraging comprehensive methodologies and tools. Students will learn to build and manage effective incident response framework, apply digital forensic techniques to investigate cyber threats, and respond to real-world cybersecurity incidents, including ransomware attacks. The key topics that will be explored are fundamentals of incident response, incident response frameworks, digital forensic techniques, ransomware investigation and recovery, threat intelligence integration, ransomware investigation and recovery, threat intelligence integration, incident response reporting, malware analysis, and proactive threat hunting.

List Course Outcomes (consistent for all sections)
CO1 - Develop and implement an incident response capability within an organization.

CO2 - Analyze collected evidence to determine the root cause of security incidents.

CO3 - Perform digital forensics techniques and integrate them into the overall incident response process.

CO4 - Apply incident response practices to ransomware and other cyber threats.

CO5 - Utilize threat intelligence to enhance digital forensic investigations.

CO6 - Prepare comprehensive incident response reports documenting key findings.

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