MIS 5216 - Organizational Forensics

Department of Management Information Systems, Temple University

Organizational Forensics

MIS 5216.701 ■ Fall 2023 ■ Edward Ferrara

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Course Description

The focus of the course is on gaining a broad understanding of the field of digital forensic. Digital forensics is based on the investigation of digital data to gather evidence relating to criminal or other legal incidents and events.  We will examine how technology and law interact to form digital forensic. Through the lecture and hand-on exercises student will learn phase of incident response, processing a crime/incident scene and gathering evidence, performing forensics analysis and conducting forensics investigation.  Digital forensics experts and investigators may also be called to testify in court about their findings.

In an organization it’s more than just computer forensics specialists and searching hard drives for hidden files or recover deleted files.  Internet activity, email, shared network storage, cloud services, social media, cellular devices, and cameras.  This course helps students understand how to respond to computer incidents. Legal issues involved in responding to computer attack are explored, including employee monitoring, working with law enforcement, and handling evidence. 

Learning outcomes

  • Understand the Digital Forensics Profession and Investigations
  • Learn the phases of data acquisition and methods used to acquire data.
  • Gain insights in processing crime scenes, expert testimony, and reports writing in high tech investigations.
  • Understand virtual machine, email, social media, mobile device, and cloud forensics.
  • Create, review, and investigate prior organization digital forensics cases using the published data sets.
  • Gain experience working with current digital forensics fools to analyze and validate data.
  • Gain experience working as part of team, developing, and delivering a professional presentation.
  • Gain insight into certification exams and improve your test taking skills.

Course information

  • Course name: Organizational Forensics
  • Course number: MIS-5216
  • Credit hours: 3
  • Pre or co-requisites (if any): It will be helpful if you have some experience with Windows and Linux scripting from the command line (e.g. Linux Bash, Zsh; Windows PowerShell)
  • Skill or knowledge requirement (if any): Basic knowledge of PCs.
  • Technology requirements (if any): Linux or Windows will be helpful but not required
  • Day and time: Tuesday August 29 to Tuesday December 16, 2023
  • Location:  On-Line and in class location to be announced.

Important information

Disability

Any student who has a need for accommodation based on the impact of a documented disability, including special accommodations for access to technology resources and electronic instructional materials required for the course, should contact me privately to discuss the specific situation by the end of the second week of classes or as soon as practical. If you have not done so already, please contact Disability Resources and Services (DRS) at 215-204-1280 in 100 Ritter Annex to learn more about the resources available to you. I will work with DRS to coordinate reasonable accommodations for all students with documented disabilities. 

Student and Faculty Academic Rights and Responsibilities

Freedom to teach and freedom to learn are inseparable facets of academic freedom. Please review the university policy on Student and Faculty and Academic Rights and Responsibilities (Policy #03.70.02).

Technology Usage

The use of technology is an important aspect of this course. Please review the Temple University Technology Usage Policy.