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• Reasons for Social networking Investigations
• Course Outline
• Who Must Attend
• About the Trainer

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It is hard to deny the booming popularity of social networking sites, the type of sites that facilitate a high degree of user personalization and intercommunication. People frequently post information about the more mundane aspects of their lives, which they may probably not be able to share with someone during verbal conversation or choose not to directly confront others. Additionally, users may share their status, news stories, notes, photos, videos, and allow their friends or friends of friends to comment on them.

It is unavoidable that this platform may also provide incentives for criminals to carry out illegal activates such as promotion of drug, sex trading and many others. Also The ever-growing popularity of social networking websites has created a vast security issues such as corporate espionage, social network site aggregators, phishing, theft, bullying, face recognition vulnerabilities, data collection, spam, etc.

The increase in public’s use of social networking services, such as Face book, Twitter and LinkedIn significantly impacts general counsel’s approach to litigation, investigations, and fraud prevention by providing a new avenue to search for potentially relevant information and evidence.

Reasons for Social networking Investigations

• To determine the nature of online criminal activity
• What are Social network evidences.
• Understand the operations of criminal organizations that may use online social network as a medium of interaction, identify victims and conceal their own identity.
• Know what information is available from social networking sites that could be used as defense in litigation matters.
• Identify all the possible suspects involved in the online criminal activity.
• Acquire evidence against a crime from social networking sites.
• Prevent commissioning of future crimes and apprehend subject committing crimes through social networking site.

Course Outline

Introduction

• Modern investigation
• Social networks in digital form
• Introduction to various social networking sites including Face book, Twitter, YouTube
• Anatomy of online social network
• Privacy issues
• Misuse of social network sites
• Overview of legal issues for law enforcement

Information gathering and Mapping

• Motivating skills and techniques
• Advance information gathering and techniques
• Determine the identity of a profiles’ creator
• Setup an undercover profile
• How to use an undercover profile for information gathering
• Social networking mapping
• History recovery
• Status Update
• Chat
• GPS

Tools

• Internet evidence analytical
• Memory analytical
• Social networking visitor tracker

What you will take away from this course

• Key Elements of the Coaching process
• Lab scenarios and manual
• Course manual

Must Attend

This Master Class is specifically designed for key decision makers in both government agencies and private sectors:

• Senior IT officers from Government Sector and Non-Profit organizations
• General Managers, Profit-Centre Managers (IT Security Department)
• Auditors seeking higher level of technical skills
• Penetration tester and Ethical hackers
• Corporate Attorneys / Legal Professionals
• Engineers / Technical Managers
• Product & Marketing Managers
• IT manager
• Security manager

Pre requisites

• A fair understanding of computer and network security
• Participants are required to bring along a Laptop for training

About Your Speaker 

Expert Profile

Ali Fazeli has been involved in the information technology filed since his younger days. He later pursed his higher studies in the field of internet security and management from Curtin University, Australia.  He is a highly interactive and innovative trainer, whose work in mainly based on research and applied knowledge from extensive experiences in Computer security and Data recovery. He has extensive experience in digital forensic investigation, Anti-forensic and cyber war.

During his 10 years career, Ali has assisted and trained numerous information technology security professional in Asia. He is accredited as a specialist in the successful investigation and prosecution of fraudsters and other scum from the dark and under world of internet. He has successfully accomplished professional certifications and has managed to use them advantageously for the enhancement of his professional practice in the fields of

• Project advisory and management
• IT and VoIP infrastructure
• LANs and WANs Management
• Wealth Management knowledge and software consultant
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
• Cisco certified network professional (CCNP)
• Computer Hacking Forensics Investigation

Ali engaged in research opportunities in the sector of Network security Techniques: Data Mining and Data warehousing methodology at University of Curtin, in Australia 2006 and then Tactical Computer Network: Tactical fiber optic network and RF trunk system. “These researches have further cemented my knowledge and has boosted my confidence as a practitioner”, says Ali.
Ali is one of the most versatile IT security professional and expert, with skills ranging from advisory expert to guidance consultant. One of the few of Ali’s expertise lay in lecture deliveries. With a vast knowledge of various IT security sectors, Ali is competent in lecture deliveries on topics such as:

• Computer Forensics Investigation and Anti forensics techniques
• Penetration testing
• Investigating IT Misuse
• Wireless Network Hacking
• Enterprise Network Security
• Social Network Forensics

Today, Ali spent a substantial amount of his time in advising and trains IT security professionals in maritime industry. As the principal trainer and founder of infinity forensics, Ail has contributed extensively in helping numerous governments and private organizations to face the information technology risk and security. He has consulted and advised numerous organizations such as Nanyang polytechnic, Grant Thornton, Oscar maritime in Singapore.
He was involved in designing, planning and implementing a military tactical network and live image processing in 2007. Currently Ali has been approached by the law enforcement, and requested his knowledge and expertise in creating a customized training and education methodology for the sole purpose of investigating cyber criminals. Since 2007 his company Infinity forensics has been chosen as main partner of X-way software technology AG in Singapore.

Training experience:

• Disaster recovery and incident respond (Singapore - October 2006)
• Real-time image acquisition  (China July-2007)
• WinHex, computer forensics and data recovery software training (Shenzhen December- 2007)
• Anti-Forensics VS computer forensic science (Singapore - March 2008)
• A practical approach to computer forensics investigation (Singapore September 2009)
• Penetration Testing and Cyber Defence (Singapore December 2009)
• Computer forensics and cyber security ( Singapore July- August 2010
• Computer Forensics Investigation  - A Step-by-Step Guide Computer Forensics Investigation (few runs in 2009 and 2010)
• Mobile forensics – (Singapore  October )
• Graduate Diploma in Digital Forensics & Cyber Security February- August 2010 (Aventis schools of management)
• Graduate Diploma in Digital Forensics & Cyber Security December 2010– January 2011 (Aventis schools of management)