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This course provides hands-on investigative training at a basic level. Students develop the practical skills, insight, and knowledge necessary to manage a successful financial investigation from start to finish, including the acquisition and examination of financial records, interview skills, and case management and organization. Additional topics include forgery and embezzlement, financial exploitation of the elderly, working with spreadsheets, financial profiling, and state-specific statutes and legal issues. 

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 introduces the information and techniques law enforcement personnel need to safely and methodically collect and preserve digital evidence at a crime scene. Topics include recognizing potential sources of digital evidence; planning and executing a digital evidence-based seizure; and the preservation, packaging, documentation, and transfer of digital evidence.

This one-day course provides foundational spreadsheeting knowledge and skills to enhance workplace productivity. The course covers basic navigation of Microsoft Excel by combining live demonstrations and hands-on exercises.

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.

Effective insider risk mitigation requires the collection, aggregation, and analysis of data from a multitude of data sources within an organization. In this webinar, the presenter will provide an overview of the current state of the practice in technical detection methods for insider risk mitigation and present strategies organizations can use to protect their critical assets from insider misuse. 

Presented by Dan Costa, Technical Manager, CERT National Insider Threat Center

This session will discuss strategies for building, implementing, and operating an effective insider risk management program that is integrated into an organization-wide enterprise risk management strategy. Best practices will be discussed addressing prevention, detection, investigation, and response strategies to reduce the risk of malicious and non-malicious insiders impacting the critical assets of your organization. 

Presented by Randy Trzeciak, Director National Insider Threat Center; CERT Division, Software Engineering Institute

Laundering being missed? Law enforcement and government agencies globally have examples of intelligence failures that could have led to offenders being brought to justice earlier if relevant data had been shared between partners. In this webinar, the presenter will discuss whether there are means of more effectively sharing intelligence to fight financial crime and criminals.

Starting with a basic overview of cryptocurrencies, this webinar will focus on some of the more technical aspects of the crypto industry. Additionally, this webinar will look at criminals' abilities to use cryptocurrency, the potential future of crypto, and considerations for how to seize cryptocurrency as part of criminal investigations.

Merriam-Webster is our go-to source for thousands of definitions. Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) use terms that are not typically defined in mainstream dictionaries. A quick review of any common listserve reveals a lexicon of hundreds, if not thousands, of unique terms and words. This webinar series will start with the most basic of DFIR definitions and build upon them. The webinar content will be rooted in empirical facts with a misting of industry history and professional experiences.