Welcome to the CIS 5930:Applied Cyber Forensics

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What do I expect of you? (Syllabus)

Lecture Notes & Outlines

Highly Suggested Resources

Additional Resources

Resources for this class

• The Art of Memory Forensics: Detecting Malware and Threats in Windows, Linux, and Mac Memory
• Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools

Additional Resources

News Sources

• #TopNews channel on the N0l3ptr Slack

Podcasts

• Digital Forensics Survival Podcast
• The CyberWire
• Daily Tech Headlines
• The Social Engineering Podcast
• Darknet Diaries
• Security Intelligence (IBM)

Open Source Tools

• KAPE - (Kroll Artifact Parser and Extractor)
• ODIN - OSINT
• AutoRecon
• ADIDNSDump
• Cowrie Honeypot
• Sleuthkit
• Volatility
• NetworkMiner
• FTKImager
• Encase

Forensic Conferences

• DEFCON
• BlackHat Student Scholarship

Blogs and Forums

• Blog - Burgess Forensics
• Forensic Focus
• https://digital-forensics.sans.org/blog
• http://www.4n6k.com/p/forensic-posts.html
• http://az4n6.blogspot.com/
• https://4n6ir.com/
• https://www.mac4n6.com/
• https://www.gillware.com/forensics/blog/
• http://journeyintoir.blogspot.com/
• https://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/
• https://binaryforay.blogspot.com/
• http://cheeky4n6monkey.blogspot.com/
• http://windowsir.blogspot.com/
• http://www.hecfblog.com/
• https://thisweekin4n6.com/
• http://forensicmethods.com/
• http://digitalforensicstips.com/

Books

• Windows Internals Sixth Edition
• Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools: Using Open Source Platform Tools for Performing Computer Forensics on Target Systems: Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix, etc
• Incident Response and Computer Forensics, Third Edition
• The Art of Memory Forensics: Detecting Malware and Threats in Windows, Linux, and Mac Memory
• Windows Forensics
• Practical Forensic Imaging: Securing Digital Evidence with Linux Tools

Important Hacks

The Security Job Market

• Cybersecurity Jobs Report
• Cybersecurity Supply/Demand Heat Map
• Breach Detection by the Numbers: Days, Weeks or Years?
• Information Security Analysts
• National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies - Digital Forensics

US Govt Foreniscs and ICS

• Computer Emergency Response Team and United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team.
• The Orange Book (TRUSTED COMPUTER SYSTEM EVALUATION CRITERIA).
• Critical Infrastructure Protection.
  • Insider threat to CIP.
  • Organically Assured and Survivable Information Systems (OASIS).
  • Mission-oriented Resilient Clouds.
  • Computer Security in Smart Grid Advanced Metering Infrastructure .
  • http://www.nerc.com/files/SGTF_Report_Final_posted.pdf.