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digital forensics expert

Digital forensics experts retrieve and analyse information from computers and other types of data storage devices.

Description

Digital forensics experts retrieve and analyse information from computers and other types of data storage devices. They examine digital media that may have been hidden, encrypted or damaged, in a forensic manner with the aim to identify, preserve, recover, analyse and present facts and opinions about the digital information.

Theoretical Knowledge

Practical Skills

ESSENTIALApplied skills & competences

provide ICT consulting advice apply reverse engineering perform forensic preservations of digital devices use software for data preservation develop information security strategy perform ICT security testing secure sensitive customer's information gather data for forensic purposes present evidence use technology for forensics manage IT security compliances identify ICT system weaknesses use scripting programming identify ICT security risks digital data processing educate on data confidentiality manage data for legal matters establish an ICT security prevention plan implement ICT network diagnostic tools

OPTIONALOptional competences

design computer network use different communication channels perform data mining implement ICT security policies collect cyber defence data analyse network configuration and performance manage cloud data and storage

Data Source: Unified Global Standards (ISCED, ISCO, O*NET, ESCO)