Training Delivery - Live Video (VTC)

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. *Emerging issues. Current trends in various types of financial crimes. Recent cases and their implications. *Financial records. Learn to obtain and manage bank records, including basic spreadsheeting skills. *Working with data. Extract leads and draw conclusions from bank records and other financial data. *Hands-on experience. Work a mock financial case as part of an investigative team.

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 provides the fundamental knowledge and skills required to acquire forensic backup images from Windows-based computers and removable storage media in a forensically sound manner.

Presentations and hands-on practical exercises cover the following topics:

• Storage media and how data is stored.
• The forensic acquisition process.
• Tool validation.
• Hardware and software write blockers.
• Forensic backup image formats.
• Multiple forensic acquisition methods. 

Students will use free and commercial third-party tools that are currently used by practitioners in the field.

This course introduces learners to the concept of digital footprints and best practices in protecting personally identifiable information (PII). Topics include limiting an individual’s digital footprint, protecting privacy on social media, and the consequences of oversharing personal information, as well as steps to take after becoming a target of doxing.