Juvenile Justice Agencies

This webinar provides fundamental knowledge about human trafficking including defining the crime, addressing why it occurs and why it is unique, reviewing the relevant human trafficking criminal laws, and providing information on how to identify human trafficking, start an investigation, and prosecute the case.

This course presents awareness-level information on intellectual property (IP) theft. Students will be presented with a high-level approach to understanding the scope and trends of IP, general tips on identifying counterfeit products, informational videos, and more. The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center will be discussed at the end of this training with an emphasis on information sharing.

This course presents awareness-level information on a variety of topics related to white collar crime. The course covers basic definitions and terminology, common types of white collar crime, and the effects of white collar crime on society. Students learn to recognize and respond to common internet scams, provide assistance to victims of white collar crime, and recognize warning signs and red flags of criminal behavior. This course emphasizes the role of law enforcement in preventing and responding to white collar crime, and includes additional resources for combating this widespread problem.

Miami-Dade County Police Department and Middlesex County NJ Prosecutors Office team up to look at cases involving artificial intelligence supported criminal trade craft, challenges for investigations, and digital forensic considerations. This presentation will review illustrative cases studies, technical considerations and investigative approaches applied. The webinar will also examine other potential criminal tactics techniques and procedures where support from artificial intelligence is likely to present in the future.

This course introduces fundamental concepts and terminology related to computer networks. Topics include the importance of computer networks, types of computer networks, common network components, network topologies and media, the OSI and TCP/IP models of communication, and IP addressing. The course also addresses the role of law enforcement iin cybersecurity within the current landscape of digital crime.

Trust is an essential component for reducing friction between people, organizations, government, and other entities. When trust is high, people are more willing to cooperate, require less assurances for doing so, and are less skeptical of the outcomes. Unfortunately, todays climate of manipulated media, deep fakes, conflicting sources of information, and sensationalized news has raised many people's level of skepticism. This makes building and maintaining trust particularly difficult but also incredibly important.

The first module of this course covers fundamentals such as recognizing computer components and their functions, accessing computer firmware, and the startup and shutdown processes. The second module covers how a hard disk drive works, how data is converted into digital information, how to calculate the storage capacity of a device, partitioning and how that is used for storage, and how a solid state hard drive functions.

This course provides fundamental knowledge on financial investigation and data analysis. The investigation portion of the course will cover common consumer scams, how to identify suspects and their financial accounts and best processes for obtaining suspects records. The analysis portion of the course will cover the process of acquiring data, discuss methods for entering data, and provide strategies for finding patterns in data sets.

This course provides an introduction to data encryption, covering the purpose of encryption as well as the process of encrypting data, and clarifying the distinctions between encryption and other operations like password protection and encoding. It explores the confusion, diffusion, and secret key encryption methods. Topics include detecting encryption (including recognition of some of the most popular types of encryption software), as well as proper procedures for law enforcement professionals who detect that encryption may be present on a device.

Have you ever wondered how the forensic tools you use, know what they do? Have you ever wondered what an artifact means and why the 0 indicates a call was missed? Join NW3C High-Tech Crime Specialist Chris Atha as he introduces how to find these answers. Chris will break down the basics of setting up a mobile test device and performing basic differential testing using an iOS device. These steps will be performed using various free and open source tools, which students can use to follow along.