Abstract
This paper presents a novel approach to education in the area of digital forensics based on a multi-platform cloud-computer infrastructure and an innovative computer based tool. The tool is installed and available through the cloud-based infrastructure of the Dynamic Forensic Education Alliance. Cloud computing provides an efficient mechanism for a wide range of services that offer real-life environments for teaching and training cybersecurity and digital forensics. The cloud-based infrastructure, the virtualized environment and the developed educational tool enable the construction of a dynamic e-learning environment making the training very close to reality and to real-life situations. The paper presents the Dynamic Forensic Digital tool named EduFors and describes the different levels of college and university education where the tool is introduced and used in the training of future investigators of cybercrime events.
Highlights
E-learning has been around for more than 10 years
Teaching digital forensics is a demanding area of education as it involves intensive, hands-on exercises that require students to follow potentially tedious procedures demanding a long and focused attention span
Current forensics courses are often designed for advanced students who are capable of following a variety of demanding disciplines from the OS, IP networking and traffic monitoring, file system analysis, basic web applications or protocols
Summary
E-learning has been around for more than 10 years. During this time, it has changed from being a radical idea, the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven, to something that is widely regarded as mainstream in modern education. Cybercrime attacks and internet use by terrorists encompass broad areas of engineering techniques and technologies, including human-machine interactions within complex economic and socio-technical systems [7] In this context the training infrastructures that have been created so far usually do not provide the expected support for understanding the wide range of different scenarios that happen in the real world within the digitally based, sophisticated services and systems. The tool is installed and available through the cloud-based infrastructure set within the D-FET project [9] It is well-known that cloud computing introduces an efficient mechanism for a wide range of services offering real-life environments that can be used in the area of cybersecurity and digital forensics, which so far was not exploited well enough in this direction. The collected experiences of the performed training and the received feedback are presented in the fourth section, which is followed by a brief discussion and concluding remarks
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