Certified Hacking Forensic Investigator

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A Certified Hacking Forensic Investigator is a security vendor neutral certification offered by the International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants (EC-Council). It is also a computer certification, which goal is to prepare people in order to be able of finding information in computer systems, and determine if the system security was violated by someone, when, how and what they did, if possible also finding who and why. Finally, it is also the next step prior to CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) Certification.

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. CHFI 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. Electronic evidence is critical in the following situations:

Disloyal employees
Computer break-ins
Possession of illegal pornography
Breach of contract
Industrial espionage
E-mail Fraud
Bankruptcy
Disputed dismissals
Web page defacements
Theft of company documents

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.

The CHFI course will provide participants the necessary skills to identify an intruder’s footprints and to properly gather the necessary evidence to prosecute in the court of law.

The CHFI course will benefit: