Created as part of the Master of information Technology and Master of Applied Information Technology Units - 2009

This unit has been updated as part of a 2009 review and comparison of data with current Handbook, Syllabus + and Callista data.

07/12/2017 - Unit disestablished at FEC 5/17 Item 7.3.

This unit is optional in the Security Specialisation in the MIT and MAIT and an elective in all FIT masters

At the completion of this unit students will:

• be conversant with the types of applications that benefit from computer forensic analysis;
• appreciate the interrelationship between computer forensic techniques and the general principles behind rules of evidence;
• understand the tasks involved in the acquisition, analysis and presentation phases of computer forensic investigations;
• understand the methods involved in the recovery of data from various volatile and non-volatile storage media;
• be able to develop and utilise audit trails and intrusion detection techniques;
• be able to deploy open-source tools and analyse the results of such deployment in particular application contexts;
• appreciate the various technical aspects of computer forensic investigations.

029901

This unit provides students with a thorough grounding in the theory and application of computer forensic techniques. Topics covered will include: the role of computer forensics in computer crime detection and prosecution, legislative frameworks, phases of a computer forensic investigation, techniques involved in data recovery from volatile and non-volatile storage media, intrusion detection, computer forensic tools.

On-campus

Assignment work: 70%; Unit test: 30%

6

2 hrs lectures/wk, 2 hrs tutorials/wk

FIT

For MAIT students, FIT9017, FIT9018, FIT9019, FIT9030, FIT9020 and FIT4037

Computer architectures, principles of data communication and networks, experience with operating and file systems