Digital Forensics: Defining an Education Agenda

Nance, Kara; Armstrong, H. L.; Armstrong, Colin

doi:10.1109/hicss.2010.151

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“…Possible reasons could be: firstly, digital forensics is a very new field in many universities and has not attracted much research attention; secondly, digital forensics is a broad subject covering knowledge in computer, law and social science, which makes it difficult to design a good assessment strategy; thirdly, existing work in digital forensics assessment such as [4], [19], [24] provides no alignment between graduate attributes, learning objectives and learning activities. This paper attempts to bridge this research gap by using a successful example of developing an aligned assignment and sustainable feedback strategies.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Additionally, university education should not be limited to merely teach someone to use a toolkit. Hence, researchers have limited success in educating digital forensic students at universities -Taylor et al [24] advocate strategic planning in establishing digital forensic courses; Batten and Pan [4] propose to use scenario-based assignments to engage students' interest; and Nance et al [19] highlight the importance of assessing the common body of knowledge in digital forensic classes. Hence, we continue the existing work by constructing a strategic scheme assessing a broad spectrum of knowledge in a given digital forensic setup.…”

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Towards a sustainable assessment strategy for digital forensic education and training

Pan

Hutchinson

Khan

2012

Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012

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In this paper, we show the development and application of a sustainable assessment strategy as an implementation of effective learning for a computer crime and digital forensics unit. The unit is undertaken by undergraduate students as part of an Information Technology Security course at Deakin University. Over a five year period the teaching team has made continuous improvements to the delivery of material and content taking informal student feedback and Faculty review into careful consideration. In addition formal student evaluation of the unit has been extremely positive. As part of reflective teaching practice the teaching team derived a map of the relationship between learning objectives, learning activities, the assessment and the unit outcomes to verify what has led to the favorable student experience and its impact on learning process in order to repeat this strategy for other tertiary courses.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Towards a sustainable assessment strategy for digital forensic education and training

Pan

Hutchinson

Khan

2012

Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2012

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“…When the mobile computing device is powered off for seizure, all the precious information within the volatile memory will be vanished forever, and the process is irreversible. Nowadays, social networking also dominates the majority of massive web users, and Facebook is considered to be one of the leading social networking service providers, which requires participants to register to the Facebook server via a unique e‐mail account .…”

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The digital forensics of GPS path records and the discovery of previous Facebook IDs on a Pocket PC PDA

Chu

2011

Security Comm Networks

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Predominantly, because of the pervasiveness of information technology and the affordable and competitive prices of contemporary mobile computing devices, more and more personal navigation devices (PNDs) are substantively embedded with Global Positioning System (GPS) functionality and ubiquitous networks connectivity. Therefore, the digital forensics of PNDs digital evidences becomes an urgent research issue. Meanwhile, Facebook has become a globally foremost social networking service platform. Consequently, the discovery of previous Facebook IDs on PNDs has been focused in some criminal case investigations. This paper conducts the related experiments on a Pocket PC PDA to illustrate the essence of the research. Via the design of the experiments that were carried on the Pocket PC PDA, we concluded previous user(s) information concerning the digital forensics of Facebook user account(s) that might be disclosed on the current mobile computing device. The discussions and conclusions of the paper can provide digital forensics experts as paradigms or frameworks for future related criminal case investigations regarding GPS and social networking when Facebook is involved. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…Very recently, archival educators have recognized that education on digital records requires the contribution of a variety of disciplines and professional fields (Duff, Marshall, Limkilde and van Ballegooie, 2006). As well, writers on digital forensics have identified the need for interdisciplinarity in the formal programs aiming to educate professionals in their field (Irons, 2006;Boucher and EndicottPopovsky, 2008;Irons, Stephens and Ferguson, 2009;Casey 2007;Nance, Armstrong and Armstrong, 2010). This requirement has also been amply demonstrated by a plethora of research projects on digital preservation, all of them inter-or multi-disciplinary (e.g.…”

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Digital Records Forensics: A New Science and Academic Program for Forensic Readiness

Duranti

Endicott-Popovsky

2010

JDFSL

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This paper introduces the Digital Records Forensics project, a research endeavour located at the University of British Columbia in Canada and aimed at the development of a new science resulting from the integration of digital forensics with diplomatics, archival science, information science and the law of evidence, and of an interdisciplinary graduate degree program, called Digital Records Forensics Studies, directed to professionals working for law enforcement agencies, legal firms, courts, and all kind of institutions and business that require their services. The program anticipates the need for organizations to become "forensically ready," defined by John Tan as "maximizing the ability of an environment to collect credible digital evidence while minimizing the cost of an incident response (Tan, 2001)." The paper argues the need for such a program, describes its nature and content, and proposes ways of delivering it.

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Digital Forensics: Defining an Education Agenda

Cited by 24 publications

References 5 publications

Towards a sustainable assessment strategy for digital forensic education and training

Towards a sustainable assessment strategy for digital forensic education and training

The digital forensics of GPS path records and the discovery of previous Facebook IDs on a Pocket PC PDA

Digital Records Forensics: A New Science and Academic Program for Forensic Readiness

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