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Trainees’ Competency Based-Assessment Methods in Cyber Forensics Education or Training Programmes – A Review

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Cyber Forensics Investigations training or education is relatively new. The nature of Cyber Forensics is multidisciplinary, which enforces proliferations to diverse training programmes, from a handful of day’s workshop to Masters Degree in Cyber Forensics. Thus, researchers found that the world lacks experts of Cyber Forensics due to some factors. Consequently, this paper focuses to analyze the trainees’ Competency Based-Assessment implementation. The study finds that Cyber Forensics training or education has inappropriate trainees’ Competency Based-Assessment below 50%.

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  1. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

    Elfadil Sabeil, Azizah Bt Abdul Manaf, Zuraini Ismail & Mohamed Abas

  2. Faculty of Computer Science & Information Systems, Malaysia

    Elfadil Sabeil & Mohamed Abas

  3. Advanced Informatics School, JLN Semarak, 54100, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Azizah Bt Abdul Manaf & Zuraini Ismail

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    Jasni Mohamad Zain

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Sabeil, E., Bt Abdul Manaf, A., Ismail, Z., Abas, M. (2011). Trainees’ Competency Based-Assessment Methods in Cyber Forensics Education or Training Programmes – A Review. In: Mohamad Zain, J., Wan Mohd, W.M.b., El-Qawasmeh, E. (eds) Software Engineering and Computer Systems. ICSECS 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 179. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22170-5_44

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