Mastering Digital Forensics & eDiscovery for Investigations

Explore the fundamentals of forensics and digital forensics, and gain an overview of electronic discovery. Learn how cyber fraud investigations use digital evidence, data points, and specialist tools.

Learn how forensics identifies, preserves, assesses, and evaluates data from physical and digital sources with a team of specialists to recover losses and reveal root causes in corporate fraud.

Digital forensics recovers and investigates data from electronic devices to gather evidence of cybercrime, with specialists identifying, preserving, and analyzing digital traces for incident response.

Learn how electronic discovery, or e-discovery, identifies and exchanges digital evidence for legal cases, including emails, texts, and social media, during initial litigation while addressing privacy and cost concerns.

Contrast digital forensics with electronic discovery by noting specialized data retrieval and preserving evidence in forensics, versus attorney-handled e-discovery that gathers and analyzes digital data across networks.

Understand why organizations rely on digital forensics to identify and preserve evidence of cybercrime, support investigations, handle encrypted data, and present findings to management and regulators.

Explore a case study on data points for digital forensics in cyber fraud investigations, including transactions, sender/receiver details, systems and networks, backups, documents, autosave evidence, and predictive images.

Explore with a practical overview of forensics and digital forensics, e-discovery, and the differences between them, including a case study on data points for cyber fraud investigations.

Explore corporate data and digital information concepts, assess digital risks and cybercrimes, and learn to secure data via a digital risk management program and cybersecurity practices.

Understand the difference between data and information, how corporate data is captured, analyzed, and transformed into information for product development, market research, and secure digital governance.

Identify digital data stakeholders and protect access across the organization, from customer verification to regulatory reporting, while aligning data use with risk management and compliance.

Identify and manage digital risks faced by institutions, including information security risk and enterprise risk management, to protect data, profitability, and reputation.

Explore the motives, profile, and rationalization of digital fraudsters, and examine how weak governance, internal controls, and opportunities enable fraud, using the fraud triangle of motivation, opportunity, and rationalization.

Explore cybercrime and cybersecurity, including how hackers threaten information systems, data, and devices, and how governance, disaster recovery, business continuity, and end-user awareness protect information assets.

Explore how organizations secure digital data through an effective risk management program, identifying assets, assessing threats, and implementing ongoing, cost-effective controls to prevent data loss.

Explore corporate and digital data, stakeholders, and cyber risks, analyze fraud motives, and learn to design and implement a digital risk management program to protect information and prevent cybercrimes.

Explore the overview of digital investigations and digital financial crime indicators. Study planning, digital forensics and investigations, handling initial digital allegations, digital evidence review, and a case study.

Explore how digital crimes and fraud investigations begin from suspicion and evolve through investigative intelligence, transaction analysis, and computer forensics, with interviews and an independent fraud department guiding the response.

Identify digital fraud indicators and manipulation of financial information, explore incidents by internal or external stakeholders, and learn when to initiate a fraud investigation to protect financial reporting.

Plan digital forensics and investigations with clear objectives, suspect interviews, cross-border coordination with international regulators, reporting lines to recover embezzled funds.

Identify and respond to initial digital fraud allegations or suspicions by collecting internal and external information, interviewing informants, and documenting details to decide whether to escalate the investigation.

Learn how the digital financial crime investigation team applies the defined digital crime investigation program to obtain evidence. They gather interviews, behavior observation, walkthroughs, third-party confirmations, checks, and electronic records.

This case study outlines actions and considerations for digital financial crime suspicions, including initial assessment, alerting the forensics team, collecting fraud details, securing a formal statement, and logging notes.

Investigate cybercrime and digital financial crime from initial suspicion, outline planning and evidence collection, and map internal or external fraud and data manipulation.

Explore governance and oversight of digital forensics and eDiscovery, and learn the roles of the DF IMC and DFO, plus case study on digital transactions investigation documentation and reporting.

Explore governance and oversight of digital forensics and eDiscovery, including board tone at the top, internal controls, and risk management through the digital forensics investigations management committee.

Explain how the digital forensics and eDiscovery function adopts a risk-based approach to manage digital investigations, ensure compliance, and report findings to the board.

Lead the governance of digital forensics investigations via the DFIMC, chaired by the CEO and acting on behalf of the board, overseeing compliant digital transactions and managing digital fraud risk.

The lecture presents the role of a digital forensics investigation officer (DFO) as a senior manager who ensures regulatory compliance, risk-based investigations, and board-level eDiscovery and policies.

Conduct standardized, entity-wide digital forensics reviews to assess digital controls, regulatory compliance, and financial crime risks, including onboarding and know your customer, with periodic reviews, testing, and management reporting.

Examine a case study on digital transactions to identify and document the information required for digital forensics reviews, including know your customer, due diligence, AML policies, and trade finance records.

Establish governance to prevent and detect digital fraud with a risk-based digital forensics and eDiscovery framework led by the forensics and investigation officer, overseen by the management committee for compliance.

Explore digital forensics and e-discovery concepts, case studies, and governance frameworks to identify, collect, and secure digital evidence for cybercrime investigations.