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Training Course Summary:

The Computer Security Forensics & System Recovery course provides industry professionals with the knowledge and advanced technical skills necessary to perform a forensic investigation on Solaris 9 Operating Systems (Solaris 9 OS). This course equips students with the data collection, data preservation, and analytical skills necessary to investigate potentially compromised systems, knowledge of common attacks, and preparation for working with a legal investigation.

System recovery and hardening is covered from the perspective of the role of the systems administrator in enabling the site to resume operations in a potentially hostile environment.

The primary focus of this course is technical analysis, but it peripherally includes general aspects of legal procedure not specific to any particular jurisdiction, but following industry best-practices. This includes appropriate evidence-gathering techniques, securing an incident scene, maintaining chain of custody, documentation of forensic analysis, and preparation to respond to security intrusions in adherence to local incident response policies and procedures. Recent legislation in the United States, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Health Insurance Portability and Accounting Act (HIPAA), and Gramm-Leach Bliley Act, mandates internet technology (IT) security control policies and procedures take legal issues into account for certain industries. This can affect how a forensic investigation proceeds by requiring that law enforcement be informed of certain security breaches.

This course includes real-world exercises that provide hands-on experience in computer forensic analysis.

Pre-Requisites:

To succeed in this course, students should be able to:
Install and configure a Solaris OS system
Perform system administration functions, such as backups, restores, user account management, and file system management.
Perform network administration functions, such as tracing networking connections, network routes, and configuring network services.

Who Should Attend:

Students who can benefit from this course include IT professionals who are required to perform technical analysis of Solaris OS Systems for potential legal proceedings. This includes systems administrators, law enforcement investigators, and technical support engineers. The techniques are also beneficial to those who might not be seeking legal action, but want greater understanding of tools and techniques for analyzing Solaris OS systems. This includes system administrators and systems programmers who might utilize these techniques for system and software debugging.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Module 1 - Computer Forensics Overview


Define the computer forensics process
Describe the elements of the computer forensics process

Module 2 - Security Policies and Procedures


Describe why security policies and procedures need to be developed
Define the characteristics of an incident response policy and how it relates to forensic examination
Define the characteristics of an incident response procedure and how it relates to forensic examination

Module 3 - Security Compromise Detection and Identification


Identify indicators of a possible system compromise
Describe intrusion response tasks and roles

Module 4 - Computer Crime Scene Investigation


Describe fundamental crime scene investigation procedures
List the forensic tools and commands used at a crime scene
Describe how evidence is collected and secured

Module 5 - System Recovery


Describe the steps for platform reinstallation
Describe authentication mechanisms that must be changed after an attack

Module 6 - Mitigating Risk While Resuming Operations


Describe issues involved with system and network monitoring
Describe some additional security measures to protect against repeat attacks

Module 7 - Analyzing Typical Attack Patterns


Describe the methods used in remote attacks
Describe the methods used for obscuring remote attacks

Module 8 - Building the Forensic System


Explain why a forensic system is used
Describe the features of a forensic system

Module 9 - Filesystem Forensics


Use file timestamps in computer forensics
Describe obscure filesystem tools

Module 10 - Forensic Commands and Tools


Describe native commands and tools that are used in forensic examination
Describe third-party tools that might be used in forensic examination