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Continuing education – Digital Forensics & Cyber Investigation

Today forensic and cyber investigators must collect and analyze digital evidence from a diverse landscape of technically complex sources. Our Master program gives you a wide range of practical skills needed for an exciting career in digital forensics and cyber investigation.

Master of Advanced Studies (MAS)

Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS)

  • CAS

Digital Forensics & Cyber Investigation Fundamentals

The digital transformation of society is affecting crime, criminals and criminal investigation. The Digital Forensics & Cyber Investigation continuing education program at BFH was created to address new...
  • CAS

Digital Forensics & Cyber Investigation Advanced

The digital transformation of society is affecting crime, criminals and criminal investigation. The Digital Forensics & Cyber Investigation continuing education program at BFH was created to address new...
  • CAS

Digital Forensics & Cyber Investigation Specialist 1

The digital transformation of society is affecting crime, criminals and criminal investigation. The Digital Forensics & Cyber Investigation (DFCI) continuing education program at BFH was created to address...
  • CAS

Digital Forensics & Cyber Investigation Specialist 2

The CAS Digital Forensics & Cyber Investigation Specialist 2 covers mobile device forensics and social media investigation.

Short Advanced Studies (SAS)

Digital Forensics & Cyber Investigation Fundamentals

  • SAS

Digital Forensics Fundamentals

This module provides an introduction to digital forensics and digital forensic investigation.

You will learn about forensic science, including the history and current scope of digital forensics, the laws...
  • SAS

Cybercrime Overview

This module provides an introduction to cybercrime and cyber facilitated crime.

You learn about the history of cybercrime, cyber fraud, phishing, identity theft, data theft and leaks, privacy and...
  • SAS

Cyber Investigation Fundamentals

Explore the foundations of cyber investigations with essential skills in Internet technologies, OSINT, and digital tracing for online attribution and event analysis.

Gain hands-on insight into core...
  • SAS

Digital Forensic Acquisition

This course teaches basic digital forensic acquisition and evidence management skills.

An overview of computer architectures, storage technologies and interfaces, and introduces the principles of...

Digital Forensics & Cyber Investigation Advanced

  • SAS

File System Analysis

This course teaches advanced storage and filesystem forensics.

The Short Advanced Studies cover partition schemes, analysis of partition tables and filesystems, and tools like The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy....
  • SAS

Operating System Artifact Analysis

This module teaches the forensic analysis of Operating System specific artifacts (Windows, Mac, and Linux).

Learn to identify and analyze artifacts from MS Windows, macOS, and Linux distributions: from...
  • SAS

Memory Forensics

This course provides an introduction to memory forensic acquisition and analysis techniques.

Topics include analyzing running processes, identifying established network connections, locating cryptographic...
  • SAS

Application and Media File Analysis

Analysis of server and client applications, and meta-data within application files

These Short Advanced Studies focus on the analysis of application-specific forensic artifacts, covering client and server...

Digital Forensics & Cyber Investigation Specialist 1

  • SAS

Hardware Forensics

Forensic analysis of hardware & IoT devices – in this five-day course, you will learn about the basics of electronics and interfaces, memory access and embedded Linux, as well as drone, vehicle and...
  • SAS

Malware Forensics

This course teaches the forensic analysis of Malware and malicious code.

Participants will learn malware identification and family categorization, DLL hooking and injection. Further topics include botnet...
  • SAS

E-Discovery

This course covers the Electronic Discovery processes in corporate legal and litigation investigations.

It covers the fundamentals of civil investigations, the concept of client privilege, and the...
  • SAS

Network Forensics

This course teaches advanced network forensics, packet capture and analysis.

It includes wired and wireless traffic interception, mobile data networks (LTE and beyond), packet formats, protocol decoding,...

Digital Forensics & Cyber Investigation Specialist 2

  • SAS

Cloud and VM Forensics

This course teaches forensics and investigations related to cloud and virtual machine technologies.

Participants will learn among other things to understand cloud and virtualization technologies, navigate...
  • SAS

Fintech Forensics

This course teaches investigative techniques related to financial technologies.

It covers digital payment systems, traditional transactions (SWIFT, IBAN), cryptocurrencies, online money laundering,...
  • SAS

Mobile Device Forensics

This course teaches the analysis of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets.

Participants will learn data extraction techniques, the use of Faraday cages in secure environments, and both logical and...
  • SAS

Forensics Intelligence

This course teaches the use of intelligence to guide forensic investigations.

Participants will learn to distinguish between evidence and intelligence, apply intelligence gathering models, and evaluate the...

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Study Guidance

Prof. Dr. Bruce Nikkel

  • Co-Leiter Institut ICE
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Miriam Patwa

  • Studienkoordinatorin Weiterbildung
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