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Have you ever wished that everyone was in the same boat as you, and more importantly, rowing in the same direction? Today people live in a global society that consists of various teams and departments working with and against each other. People face individual and institutional challenges that sometimes inhibit their ability to succeed. Investigations today comprise public and private entities, investigators from different departments, attorneys, and others that can impact your investigation or goals. This webinar will teach students the art of leverage and how to maintain, develop, and execute partnerships that will provide long-term success. True success comes when you are able to maintain partnerships and rely on each other for that success. This webinar will provide students with strategies used by some of the most successful Fortune 500 companies. Students will be able to implement these strategies directly to their teams and their investigations. This webinar will give them insight on how to develop relationships and leverage people in order to be more efficient and provide them with lasting success.

This course covers the identification and extraction of artifacts associated with the Microsoft Windows operating system. Topics include the Change Journal, BitLocker, and a detailed examination of the various artifacts found in each of the Registry hive files. Students also examine Event Logs, Volume Shadow Copies, link files, and thumbnails. This course uses a mixture of lecture, discussion, demonstration, and hands-on exercises.

This course covers the acquisition, examination, and analysis of many types of financial records, including bank statements and checks, wire transfer records, and business records. Topics include recognizing and investigating common indicators of fraud, using spreadsheets to facilitate analysis and pattern recognition, and financial profiling. There is a strong focus on presenting financial evidence in multiple modalities: spreadsheet data outputs, graphic representations, and written/oral presentations.

This course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to perform a limited digital forensic examination, validate hardware and software tools, and effectively use digital forensic suites and specialized tools. The course begins with a detailed review of the digital forensic examination process, including documentation, case management, evidence handling, validation, and virtualization. Students learn to use today's leading commercial and open source digital forensic suites: Magnet Axiom, X-ways Forensic, and Autopsy. Instruction on each suite will include an interface overview, configuration, hashing, file signature analysis, keyword searching, data carving, bookmarking, and report creation.