About The Project
“Development of Cyber Forensic Training cum Investigation Labs in North-Eastern States and Cloud based centralized Cyber Forensics Lab Infrastructures” to be implemented jointly by NIELIT, Kohima and C-DAC, Kolkata Funded by R&D Cyber Security Division of MeitY, Govt. of India.
The project aims to develop Cyber Forensics Labs and capabilities in Eight North Eastern States. Cloud-based infrastructure facility has been set up at NIELIT Kohima for sharing of latest forensics tools as well as providing remote cyber forensic analysis services to all NE States. The facility is envisaged to be used for providing capacity building training to various stake holders of criminal justice system like Police officers, Prosecutors, Judges, Investigation Officers of all LEAs in all NE States.
- To setup Cyber Forensics Training cum Investigation Labs in 8 North Eastern states equipped with associated cyber forensic systems and tools having software license and maintenance contract for the duration (5 years) of the project.
- To create master trainers with latest skills and training at each of the 8 NIELIT centres (two for each of the labs) on cyber forensics.
- Capacity building of various stake holders of criminal justice system like Police officers, Prosecutors, Judges, Investigation Officers of all LEAs etc in each of the proposed State.
- Design and development of the course curriculum and its delivery for various stake holders like Law Enforcement Agency (LEA)s, Prosecution, judiciary in the field of digital crime prevention, detection, mitigation & investigation (cyber forensics) etc. in respective states. The course curriculum will be based on the case studies.
- Creation of resource portal along with e-learning methodologies over cloud and facilities for MIS, courseware dissemination, information exchange, resource persons/ organizations sharing of expertise among the Eight NE states.
- To create a centralized database facility for digital crime records for various research such as automatic evidence extraction and analysis for cyber forensics to enable.
- a. Uniformity in tool profiling and usage of cyber forensic tools & reference library of various cyber forensic software tools for evidence extraction and analysis for cyber forensics.
- b. Design and Development of digital crime database/repository for supporting various training and LEAs requirements
- Cloud based Infrastructure will be hosted in the cloud for sharing of cyber forensic tools, content delivery & cloud based Virtual Training on cyber forensics for LEAs of all eight north eastern states.
- To provide access to VTE from the 8 cyber forensic labs for training of the law enforcement agencies.
- Need based value addition / upgradation to existing course materials developed by C-DAC Hyderabad, NPA Hyderabad and NIELIT and host it at VTE.
The project will be implemented through the NIELIT network in NER comprising of NIELIT’s own centres which are operational in each state capital and major cities and a network of other centres classified as NIELIT extension centres, NIELIT accreditation centres and NIELIT facilitation centres. In total NIELIT has a network of 571 centres in NE Region. It will be NIELIT’s endeavour to conduct maximum trainings at NIELIT’s own centres/extension centres.
Details of NIELIT’s own and extension centres are as under:
| S. No | State | Number of NIELIT’s own centres | Locations |
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| 1 | Arunachal Pradesh | 3 | Itanagar, Tezu and Pasighat |
| 2 | Assam | 6 | Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Tezpur, Silchar, Kokrajhar |
| 3 | Manipur | 3 | Imphal, Churachandpur, Senapati |
| 4 | Meghalaya | 2 | Shillong, Tura |
| 5 | Mizoram | 2 | Aizwal, Lunglei |
| 6 | Nagaland | 2 | Kohima, Chuchumliyang |
| 7 | Tripura | 1 | Agartala |
| 8 | Sikkim | 1 | Gangtok |
| Total | 20 |
The total project duration is 5 Years (60 months). The project would cater to the development of Cyber Forensic Training cum Investigation Labs in North-Eastern States and Cloud based centralized Cyber Forensics Lab Infrastructures and training of 5360 nos. of Judiciary,Police and LEA Officials in the field of Cyber Forensics.
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Day |
Topic |
Content |
Duration |
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Day 1 |
Basic Concepts of Computer and Networks |
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Computer Systems
& Networks |
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Computer
Basics - Types of memory, Types of Software’s : OS and applications Software |
30 mins |
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Networking
and Internetworking |
1&1/2 hrs |
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Data storage fundamentals ·
Digital storage media ·
Volatile memory and non-volatile memory ·
Data
Storage Devices - characteristic, types and interfaces |
1&1/2 hrs |
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Day 2 |
Cyber Crimes and Digital Forensics |
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Cyber Crime and IT Act |
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Cybercrime Laws (IT Act and IPC), Sect 65B of Indian
Evidence Act ·
Intellectual Property Issues in Cyberspace |
1 hour |
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Cyber Crime Case
Studies |
30 mins |
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Digital Forensics |
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Digital
evidence - source, types, classification, Identification, Seizure,
Preservation, Acquisition Analysis, Presentation, chain of custody ·
Tools and techniques to capture data from Data Storage
devices ·
Demo – Capturing
of volatile memory |
1&1/2 hrs |
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Demo - Disk Imaging
and analysis ·
Demo - Disk verification and integrity |
1 hour |
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Day 3 |
Social Networking and Mobile Forensics |
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Identification and
Investigation |
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Social networking concepts - types, secure configuration and
best practices ·
Identification and investigations of fake posts and social
networking accounts |
1&1/2 hrs |
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Demo - Email Analysis ·
Demo - Call Records Data (CDR) analysis |
1 hour |
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Mobile phone concepts & Data
Acquisition |
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Mobile Architecture and cell concept ·
Components of mobile phone, OS types and terminologies |
30 mins |
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Demo – Data Acquisition in Mobile phones |
1 hour |
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Day |
Course
content |
Duration |
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Day-1 |
Basics of IT/ Communication Technology: Includes
key concepts relating to computing, global connectivity, technology usage
etc. |
1 hr |
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Day-1 |
An introduction to
Cyber Crimes - covers emerging crime trends, the technical, legal,
ethical, and operational challenges related to cybercrime, general categories
of cybercrime, particularly offences against the confidentiality, integrity
and availability of computer data and systems, computer-related offences,
crimes in the mobile world and content-related offences, including social
media, instant messaging, financial crimes. Case studies |
1 hr |
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Day-1 |
Information Technology Act 2000: Describes the legal landscape relating to
cybercrime, highlights the need for the legislation and details of important
sections. |
1 & ½ hrs |
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Day-2 |
Handling Digital Evidence with Demo Overview of digital forensics and electronic
evidence, digital forensics process, good practices in digital forensics, challenges
posed by cybercrime investigator etc.. |
1 hr |
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Day-2 |
Mobile forensics: Retrieving evidence of various nature from smart
phones. How to deal with social media crimes, including contacting the
service providers to get evidence etc... |
1 hr |
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Day-2 |
Appreciation & Attribution of
electronic evidence:
Includes recent history and interpretation of
supreme court and high courts. Also covers the role of hashing & digital
signature for integrity of evidence. |
1 & 1/2 hr |
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Day |
Course content |
Duration |
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Day-1 |
Current
Trends and Cyber crimes |
1 hr |
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Day-1 |
Appreciation
of Digital Evidence |
1 hr |
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Day-1 |
Attribution of Digital Evidence |
1 hr |
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Day-1 |
Digital Forensic Process |
1 hr |
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