Posted: May 16th, 2016

compose technical tactics in digital crimes and assess the steps involved in a digital forensics investigation;

ask 3: Forensics Report (20 Marks)

In this major task you are assumed as a Digital Forensics Examiner. Considering a real or a hypothetical case you are required to produce a formal report consisting of facts from your findings to your attorney who has retained you. You are free to choose a forensics scenario which can be examination of a storage media (HDD, USB Drive etc), email or social media forensics, mobile device forensics, cloud forensics or any other appropriate scenario you can think of.

Deliverable: A forensics report of 1800-2000 words.

Rationale
This assessment task covers data validation, e-discovery, steganography, reporting and presenting, and has been designed to ensure that you are engaging with the subject content on a regular basis. More specifically it seeks to assess your ability to:

determine the legal and ethical considerations for investigating and prosecuting digital crimes
analyse data on storage media and various file systems
collect electronic evidence without compromising the original data;
evaluate the functions and features of digital forensics equipment, the environment and the tools for a digital forensics lab;
compose technical tactics in digital crimes and assess the steps involved in a digital forensics investigation;
prepare and defend reports on the results of an investigation