NISGTC Forensics
Overview
NISGTC Forensics labs, developed by the National Information Security and Geospatial Technologies Consortium (NISGTC), provide hands-on experience in digital forensics practices. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. Development was funded by the Department of Labor (DOL) TAACCCT Grant No. TC-22525-11-60-A-48.
Lab Exercises (16 labs)
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to File Systems |
| 2 | Common Locations of Windows Artifacts |
| 3 | Hashing Data Sets |
| 4 | Drive Letter Assignments in Linux |
| 5 | The Imaging Process |
| 6 | Introduction to Single Purpose Forensic Tools |
| 7 | Introduction to Autopsy Forensic Browser |
| 8 | Introduction to PTK Forensics Basic Edition |
| 9 | Analyzing a FAT Partition with Autopsy |
| 10 | Analyzing a NTFS Partition with PTK |
| 11 | Browser Artifact Analysis |
| 12 | Communication Artifacts |
| 13 | User Profiles and the Windows Registry |
| 14 | Log Analysis |
| 15 | Memory Analysis |
| 16 | Forensic Case Capstone |
Pod Topology Forensics (FOR) Pod
Virtual Machines
Documentation & Resources
Setup: Install NISGTC Forensics via the Course Manager. See the Admin Guide →
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