Web Forensics: Recovering Digital Evidence
1h 33mIntermediate2024-11-04
Authors

Jungwoo Ryoo
Teaches IT, cybersecurity, and risk analysis at Penn State
Course details
As the internet becomes more and more integral in our lives, so does the need to investigate criminal activity on the web. It’s more important than ever for digital forensics professionals to acquire expertise to solve cybercrimes occurring on the web. This course provides the theory and practice of web forensics, which will equip you with abilities to acquire, analyze, and present evidence from web servers and clients.
Learning objectives
Explain the role of web forensics in computer forensics.
Identify different types of digital evidence on web servers and clients.
Apply web forensics processes like acquisition, preservation, analysis, and presentation to real-life scenarios.
Learning objectives
Explain the role of web forensics in computer forensics.
Identify different types of digital evidence on web servers and clients.
Apply web forensics processes like acquisition, preservation, analysis, and presentation to real-life scenarios.
Skills covered
Incident ResponseCybersecurityOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Recovering digital evidence
- 02 - What you should know
1. Introduction to Web Forensics
- 03 - What is web forensics
- 04 - History and architecture of the World Wide Web
- 05 - Internet crimes and the significance of web forensics
- 06 - Web client and server fundamentals
- 07 - Web protocols and technologies
- 08 - Web forensics career opportunities and certifications
- 09 - Future of the World Wide Web and web forensics
2. Web Evidence
- 10 - Web client evidence
- 11 - Web server evidence
- 12 - Attacks on web clients
- 13 - Countermeasures for web client attacks
- 14 - Attacks on web servers
- 15 - Countermeasures for web server attacks
3. Acquiring and Preserving Web Evidence
- 16 - Web evidence acquisition
- 17 - Acquisition tools
- 18 - Web evidence preservation
- 19 - Preservation tools
- 20 - Case study - Autopsy
- 21 - Case study - Wireshark
- 22 - Challenge - Using the advanced features of Fiddler
- 23 - Solution - Using the advanced features of Fiddler
4. Analyzing and Reporting Web Evidence
- 24 - Web evidence analysis
- 25 - Analysis tools
- 26 - Web evidence presentation
- 27 - Presentation tools
- 28 - Case study - Analyzing JavaScript
- 29 - Case study - Analyzing CSS
- 30 - Challenge - Working with CSS
- 31 - Solution - Working with CSS
5. Legal Considerations in Web Forensics
- 32 - Requirements for handling web evidence
- 33 - Admissibility for web evidence
- 34 - Ediscovery regulations
- 35 - Documenting web evidence
- 36 - Challenge - Exploring web evidence logs
- 37 - Solution - Exploring web evidence logs
Conclusion
- 38 - Next steps
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