Certification Computer Forensics: IT Professionals put your talents to work!!

Gaining your certification computer forensics cert is a natural conclusion after having the experience in computer security. Depending on the cert you choose, a lot of people also do the Ethical Hacker cert, before becoming a certification computer forensics investigator.

With ethical hacking you learn how to hack legally, (without the fear of going to prison), with forensics you learn how to catch those that you will help put into prison.

Computer security is high on the list of top careers to follow in IT and IT professionals that branch out in computer forensics have a bright career in front of them. A relatively new area when you compare it with other branches of computer technologies, it’s on the rise.

Computer forensics is gaining evidence that a system is being penetrated. You then report the crime and conduct audits to strengthen the systems and prevent future attacks. If you are the type of person that likes to analyze, has the patience and determination, you will be awarded with a career which is very interesting. Unless of course you don't like dobbing in your hacker friends, then you have a problem.

What exactly is a forensics investigation?

Certified Hacking Forensic Investigation is the process of detecting hacking attacks and properly extracting evidence to report the crime and conduct audits to prevent future attacks. Computer forensics is simply the application of computer investigation and analysis techniques in the interests of determining potential legal evidence.

Evidence might be sought in a wide range of computer crime or misuse, including but not limited to theft of trade secrets, theft of or destruction of intellectual property, and fraud. Computer forensic investigators can draw on an array of methods for discovering data that resides in a computer system, or recovering deleted, encrypted, or damaged file information.

Securing and analyzing electronic evidence is a central theme in an ever-increasing number of conflict situations and criminal cases.

Computer forensics enables the systematic and careful identification of evidence in computer related crime and abuse cases. This may range from tracing the tracks of a hacker through a client’s systems, to tracing the originator of defamatory emails, to recovering signs of fraud.

There are two certification computer forensics exams

Well, the most popular ones anyway.

The EC-Council’s CHFI (Certified Hacking Forensics Investigator)

and the

ISFCE’s CCE (Certified Computer Examiner)

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