Information Security Training

Computer Forensics for the Security Practitioner

Overview
Accidental/intentional destruction of data, hardware failure or cyber attacks can happen at any time and you may be called upon to respond, investigate, document, handle, and escalate the analysis to a formal investigation. In this two day hands-on workshop, you'll;

• Learn when investigations are appropriate or warranted
  
  
• Learn how and when to recover lost or deleted information
  
  
• Learn how to examine the operation system artifacts that connect the user to the actions taken on the computer
  
  
• Learn how to collect, handle and preserve evidence
  
  

The workshop will include hands-on investigative scenarios and attendees will be provided with the training and tools to locate and properly examine important user and operatiing system sources of information. This training will highlight the role of the system administrator or security practitioner in the investigation and possible legal action involving cyber evidence.

What You Will Learn:

• Forensic processing.
• How to dispel a reasonable expectation of privacy.
• Procedural guidelines for analysis of information.
• To avoid common pitfalls in the investigative process.
• To acquire a forensic image.
• Chain of custody and related issues.
• Data Recovery methodologies.
• The tools and methods to examine operating system and application artifacts.
• How to examine link, pre-fetch and USB-store files to determine what external devices have been attched.

Who Should Attend:

• System administrators
• Network administrators
• Security practitioners
• IT staff
• Physical security staff
• Data Storage managers
• Records Managers
• Chief Technology Officers
• Computer Security Officers
• Legal Staff involved in technology cases

About Wolcott Group:
Wolcot Group is an information technology consulting and integration firm that provides IT Security, Goverance, Enterprise Architecture, Compliance and IT infrastructure services. We assist business and IT leaders with developing and implementing solutions that optimize their IT systems, services, and infrastructure.

Wolcott Group is an IBM Premier Business Partner, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and has partnerships with other leading technology providers such as VMware, NetPro, ZL Technologies, and RSA Security.

Wolcott Group is a sponsoring member of the IT Governance Institute. Our consultants have earned and maintain independent industry certifications in IT governance and management, information security, compliance, business management, and project management.

About the Instrucor:
Len Drinkard is an adjunct faculty member in information technology at Stark State College of Technology and is retired from a 35-year career with the Federal Government, the last 20 years as a criminal investigator. Len served as the lead computer crimes investigator for the US Department of Labor, Office of Labor-Management Standards. He currently teaches a wide range of computer forensic courses at the Ohio Peace Offices Training Academy. He has also served as a guest instructor in the Train the Trainer program for the National Center for Forensic Science in Orlando Florida.

Len is a founding officer of the Ohio High Technology Crimes Investigation Organization and currently serves as 2 nd Vice President. Together with an Assistant United States Attorney, he founded the US Attorney's Agency Resources Team (UART), which provides computer forensic training and support for law enforcement agencies. He has taught in dozens of computer crimes investigation programs for city, state, county and federal agencies as well as in private sector programs. He has been published in the "FBI Magazine," "The International Journal of Forensic Computing," by the Association of Financial Crimes Investigators, and was a contributor to "Cleveland Scene" Magazine.

The Investment
The investment for this Two-day workshop provides 16.0 hours of CPE credits, is $449 for groups of up to 20 personnel.

For more information or to inquire about scheduling this workshop for a group at your offices, send us an email at training@wolcottgroup.com.