Name: CCL Solutions Group
Telephone: 01789 261200

The three-day course, which can take place at a customer’s premises or at our Stratford-on-Avon offices, aims to equip digital forensics professionals with an in-depth understanding of the wide range of file and data formats encountered during their investigations.

Delivered by Principal Analyst Alex Caithness, the topics covered include:

A refresher on binary encoding of numerical and textual data used in the formats covered, and more.
A discussion of how data is arranged in an abstract sense; tips for identifying the formats and how to approach reporting on them.
For each of the data formats covered - SQLite, XML, JSON, LevelDB, Property Lists, Protocol Buffers, ensuring analysts can:
- Provide a historical context for the format, why it was created and where it is used.
- Describe its physical and logical structure.
- Provide precise and unambiguous methods for describing the structure of the data and the location of artefacts of interest.
- Compare relative strengths, weaknesses and potential risks of tools available to view, process and report on the data formats.
- Explore approaches (and feasibility) for recovery of deleted data.

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For more information and to book you can check out the course flyer here.

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