Justice Information Sharing

This course provides expert guidance in the skills law enforcement officers need to conduct successful online investigations. Topics include IP addresses and domains, an overview of currently popular social media platforms, best practices for building an undercover profile, foundational knowledge related to the dark web, and the use of the dark web as an investigative tool. Instructors demonstrate both open source and commercially available investigative tools for social engineering, information gathering, and artifacts related to social media, as well as automated utilities to capture information and crawl websites. 

Autopsy is a free and open source digital forensics platform with many features comparable to those found in the leading commercial tools. It can be installed on Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. In part 1 in a two-part series, this webinar will start by walking through setting up a new case and exploring effective tool usage. Attendees will then learn digital forensics best practices and methods for quickly locating items of evidentiary value.

Hash, encryption, full disk, file based, and the list goes on! Words used correctly and incorrectly when examiners discuss or even report on evidence. This webinar is intended to lay the framework for a factual understanding of how encryption and hashing are used in our digital investigations. Real world applications of hashing, and encryption will be shown, with an emphasis on how they impact investigations in 2020. Questions such as: "Does the application encrypt data?", "How is it encrypted?", and "Why can't I decrypt it?" will be discussed.