Prerequisites: CIS 272
Schedule: Check The Annual Schedule
Instructor: Steve Hailey

The use of cell phones and personal digital assistants is increasing - 825 million cell phones were sold last year. With expanded memories, increasingly sophisticated organizer tools and sharper cameras, cell phones and PDA’s are playing ever larger roles in the lives of almost everyone - including criminals. Drug dealers, rapists, murderers, and white collar criminals across the country have been caught based, at least partly, on the evidence extracted from cellular phones and personal digital assistants.

Following the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines, this comprehensive course will teach the forensic analyst the current best methods for acquisition and analysis of evidence and artifacts from cellular phones and personal digital assistants. This course has been instructed for military personnel performing forensic analysis in the Mideast, and you'll find it to be one of the most comprehensive courses available anywhere.

This course will help prepare the student to take the CyberSecurity Forensic Analyst (CSFA) certification test which can be taken by CIS 273 and CIS 292 students at no cost.

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