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As our lives become more dependent on digital technology, cyber crime is increasing in our society. There is now an ever-increasing need to counter cyber crime through digital forensics investigations. With rapid developments in technology such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and mobile computing, it is vital to ensure proper training of law enforcement personnel and judges in the theory and practice of digital forensics. In this paper, we describe our methods and approach to create curricula, educational materials, and courses for training law enforcement and judicial personnel in digital forensics. We partnered with legal experts to design a series of modules/courses on digital forensics to educate the actual target demographics. Training materials have been designed to be not only scalable to nationwide law enforcement and judicial professionals, but also amenable to regular updates to respond to rapidly changing attacks and forensic techniques.
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This research was supported by the National Science Foundation through awards DGE-1723768, ACI-1642078, and CNS-1351038.
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Hasan, R., Zheng, Y., Walker, J.T. (2021). Digital Forensics Education Modules for Judicial Officials. In: Choo, KK.R., Morris, T., Peterson, G.L., Imsand, E. (eds) National Cyber Summit (NCS) Research Track 2020. NCS 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1271. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58703-1_3
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