There are many people who would like to go into computer forensics that maybe are working elsewhere, currently studying an associated or indirect subject or generally have an interest to find out more. The prospect of employment is naturally the primary objective.
EMPLOYMENT
There are many ways to objectify and define a career path. Some look at the academic route first, some the employment route and others take measured assessments to determine the best path forward. It is whatever suits you best because work in civilian careers is different when working with a public sector agency.
1) Interested in working in the public sector - seek out the agency that is of interest to you and find their careers webpage. Now visit other agencies and see if there is a common theme of interest e.g. computer and smartphone forensics, digital investigations etc.
2) Are the qualifications or experience you need for the vacancy and any training offered?
3) Write to an agency to ask for their public statement on recruiting civilian employees in computer forensics?
4) Ask for the link to their public webpage that describes the equal opportunities the public sector agency is lawfully bound to publicise.
What if the private sector is more appealing to you. The above should still stand you in good stead.
EMPLOYMENT ADVERTISEMENT
Be smart and understand employment advertisements that are simply asking too much e.g. the applicant should be Einstein, know everything, but work for a pittance. These adverts do more harm than good. Apply a litmus test - (a) what is the time period of experience the person would need to qualify for each subject and then (b) how old does the person need to be.
An example of an employment advertisement seen recently, we looked at the Job description compared with the experience the person would need for each of the subject matters set out in the job description.
A test criteria was identified as to what knowledge skill and experience the applicant would need:
a) read a book,
b) 6mths,
c) 2yrs,
d) 5yrs,
e) 10yrs
Computer Science/Criminal Justice: ........ -v- ..........Time period of experience
- Teach undergraduate and graduate courses..........read a book, 6mths, 2yrs, 5yrs, 10yrs
- basic and advanced digital forensics and cyber security...read a book, 6mths, 2yrs, 5yrs 10yrs
- Knowledge of digital evidence and analysis..........read a book, 6mths, 2yrs, 5yrs, 10yrs
- network forensics...................read a book, 6mths, 2yrs, 5yrs, 10yrs
- EnCase....read a book, 6mths, 2yrs, 5yrs, 10yrs
- risk management...read a book, 6mths, 2yrs, 5yrs, 10yrs
- information security...read a book, 6mths, 2yrs, 5yrs, 10yrs
- information assurance compliance.....read a book, 6mths, 2yrs, 5yrs 10yrs
- network defense...read a book, 6mths, 2yrs, 5yrs, 10yrs
- incident response.....read a book, 6mths, 2yrs, 5yrs, 10yrs
- vulnerability assessment......read a book, 6mths, 2yrs, 5yrs, 10yrs
Given the title of the knowledge, skills and experience sought in the job description realistically a candidate would need to have had maybe between 3yrs-5yrs on each subject. This suggests between 33 to 55 years exposure to dealing with those subjects. So a candidate having started out learning at 20 years of age should be between the age of 53 to 75 to apply for the vacancy?
Alternatively, if only three subjects were the primary requirement then possibly 10 years of knowledge skill and experience might be necessary and the other subjects might be covered by reading a book on each subject.
EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES
There are many good employment agencies out there who are sensible and reasonable and define to their clients that given the sum of money they want to pay for the vacancy there needs to be incentives defined for extra knowledge, skills and experience being brought in-house that the company sells as a service to customers as value-added services. And that is a key-point for potential recruits - what VALUE-ADDED knowledge, skills and experience could you offer above the job description. Never, ever agree to provide every bit knowledge, skills and experience defined in an advertisement.
FIND OUT ABOUT EMPLOYER JOB ADVERTS
Absolute goal for research and during interviews:
i) Know the company you want to work for?
ii) Know who are their major competitors?
iii) Seek out the companies market share?
iv) Know whether you can assist maintain their current share or improve on it (e.g. Value Added)?
v) What is the financial status of the company?
vi) Whilst potential employers want to know your life story you equally have the right to know their story, too?
vii) Don't turn down a good job for one thought to be better, only to find out the latter company is using short term government grants to get people off unemployment. Check what is meant by probationary period.
UNIVERSITIES
I have updated, as of today (20/12/2015), a list of Universities in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland offering computer forensic courses for 2016 that are stand alone or incorporated with another subject matter.
These are useful website to find out about the educational qualifications available for computer forensics and related subjects. I haven't hinted my suggestions about the courses because some fundamental requirements of any forensics discipline is that a person's learns how to:
(1) source information
(2) thoroughly research
(3) identify salient details and facts
University of Bedfordshire
http://www.beds.ac.uk/howtoapply/courses/undergraduate/current-year/computer-security-and-forensics
Birmingham City University
http://www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/forensic-computing
Canterbury Christ Church University
http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/study-here/courses/undergraduate/computer-forensics-and-security.aspx
Cranfield University
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/courses/masters/forensic-computing.html
De Montfort University
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/study/courses/undergraduate-courses/forensic-computing.aspx
University of Derby
http://www.derby.ac.uk/courses/computer-networks-security-bsc-hons/
http://www.derby.ac.uk/courses/computer-forensics-bsc-hons/
University of Gloucestershire
http://www.glos.ac.uk/courses/descriptors/pages/ct5020-foundations-of-forensic-tools-and-techniques.aspx
http://www.glos.ac.uk/courses/descriptors/pages/ct5021-network-design-security-forensics.aspx
http://www.glos.ac.uk/courses/descriptors/pages/ct5024-cryptography-and-forensics.aspx
University of Greenwich
http://search.gre.ac.uk/s/search.html?collection=website-meta&form=simple-15&profile=_default&query=computer+forensics
University of Central Lancashire
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/courses/bsc_forensic_computing_foundation_entry.php
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/courses/bsc_hons_forensic_computing.php
Leeds Metropolitan University
http://courses.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/computerforensics
http://courses.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/computerforensicssecurity
http://courses.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/digitalforensics_security_msc
Liverpool John Moores University
https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/study/courses/undergraduates/2016/computer-forensics-with-foundation-year-bsc
https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/study/courses/undergraduates/2016/computer-forensics-mcomp
https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/study/courses/undergraduates/2016/computer-forensics
https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/study/courses/postgraduates/computer-forensics
University of East London
http://www.uel.ac.uk/postgraduate/specs/iscf/
London Metropolitan University
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/2016/computer-forensics-and-it-security---bsc-hons/
University of London - Royal Holloway
https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/isg/prospectivestudents/prospectivestudents-msc/home.aspx
Manchester Metropolitan University
http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/2016/13055/
Middlesex University
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/computer-forensics
Northumbria University
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-northumbria/courses/computer-and-digital-forensics-mcomp-uuscdi1/
The Open University
http://www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/modules/m812
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/computing-and-ict/introduction-computer-forensics-and-investigations/content-section-0
University of Portsmouth
http://www.port.ac.uk/courses/computing-and-creative-technologies/bsc-hons-forensic-computing/
Sheffield Hallam University
http://www.shu.ac.uk/prospectus/course/1097/
Staffordshire University
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/course/SSTK-11000.jsp
University of Sunderland
http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/courses/appliedsciences/undergraduate/computer-forensics/
Teesside University
http://www.tees.ac.uk/prospectus/ug/UG_course.cfm?courseid=121&fos=8&fossub=22
http://www.tees.ac.uk/prospectus/ug/UG_course.cfm?courseid=1797&fos=8&fossub=164
http://www.tees.ac.uk/prospectus/ug/UG_course.cfm?courseid=1311&fos=8&fossub=22
http://www.tees.ac.uk/prospectus/ug/UG_course.cfm?courseid=1798&fos=8&fossub=164
University of the West of England
http://courses.uwe.ac.uk/G4H4/2016
http://courses.uwe.ac.uk/G4HF/2016
Ireland
Blanchardstown Institute of Technology
http://www.itb.ie/studyatitb/bn518.html
University College Dublin
http://www.ucd.ie/cci/education/prospective_students/fcci_programmes/msc_fcci.html
http://www.ucd.ie/cci/education/prospective_students/msc_difc.html
Dublin City University
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/postgraduate/msc-security-and-forensic-computing
Letterkenny Institute of Technology
http://www.lyit.ie/courses/computing/ly737/
http://www.lyit.ie/courses/computing/lyksdfb/
Waterford Institute of Technology
https://www.wit.ie/courses/type/science/department_of_computing_maths_physics/bsc_hons_in_computer_forensics_and_security
https://www.wit.ie/courses/type/science/department_of_computing_maths_physics/diploma-in-computing-with-security-and-forensics-level-7-with-work-placemen
https://www.wit.ie/courses/type/science/department_of_computing_maths_physics/bsc_hons_in_computer_forensics_and_security
Scotland
Edinburgh Napier University
http://www.napier.ac.uk/en/courses/bengbenghons-computer-security--forensics-swe-undergraduate-fulltime
http://www.napier.ac.uk/en/courses/msc-advanced-security-and-digital-forensics-postgraduate-fulltime
University of Glasgow
http://www.gla.ac.uk/coursecatalogue/course/?code=ARTMED5019
Glasgow Caledonian University
http://www.gcu.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/digital-security-forensics-and-ethical-hacking-9373.php?loc=uk
Wales
Cardiff University
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/course/computer-science-with-security-and-forensics-bsc
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/course/computer-science-with-security-and-forensics-with-a-year-in-industry-bsc
University of Glamorgan
http://courses.southwales.ac.uk/courses/563-bsc-hons-computer-forensics
http://courses.southwales.ac.uk/courses/264-msc-computer-forensics
http://courses.southwales.ac.uk/courses/972-bsc-hons-computer-forensics-including-foundation-year
http://courses.southwales.ac.uk/courses/1541-mcomp-hons-computer-forensics
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Sunday, December 20, 2015
Saturday, September 28, 2013
MTEB Diploma CSUT2 Partner
Diploma for SIM and USIM Technology Examination
Mobile Telephone Diploma Core
Diploma:CSUT2
Partner Support
The Mobile Telephone Examination Board (MTEB) are pleased announce that Quantaq Solutions (http://www.quantaq.com/about.htm) have agreed to be the MTEB Diploma CSUT2 Partner. Quantaq Solutions role is as a "Partner Support". This role entails
- providing trial copies of software
- respond to technical enquiries that a student may require to make
to assist with the student's Diploma.
Moreover, Quantaq Solutions will host an MTEB webpage solely for use by MTEB Diploma Students so that students can have acess to the software and post questions to seek technical assistance.
MTEB selected to work with Quantaq Solutions as a "Partner Support" because of their existing experience with (U)SIM/smart card examination tools, their range of independent, stand-alone tools to analyse (action commands/receive responses) on SIM/Smartcard and their highly regarded technical knowledge and experience in the fields of:SIM, smartcards, NFC, RFID, M2M, location, DRM, security, cryptography, Mobile Wallet, technology, innovation, patents, technical design authority, standardisation, proof-of-concepts and software development
Gary Waite
His experience and technical background further underpin his credentials of his expertise:
- Founder of Quantaq Solutions
- Past Vice Chair of the Smart Card Group GSM Association
- Test software supplier to Global Certification Forum (GCF) Field Trial Guidelines
- Authored the original ETSI GSM 11.17 standard. This standard formalised the core test processes and procedures for SIM Cards and remains at the heart of (U)SIM testing, programming and examination today.
- First to introduce recording in CUST File (EF) a particular handset's IMEI on SIM Card, which is important, evidentially
- Employed as Technology Manager for the last 11 years with a well know international Mobile Network Operator
- Skilled in C/C++/Java
- Holds a Degree from the University of Abertay Dundee - Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Electronic Engineering
Diploma:CSUT2
Free trial access to the following tools will be made available to Diploma Students.
USIMdetective - http://www.quantaq.com/usimdetective.htm
USIMexplorer - http://www.quantaq.com/usimexplorer.htm
USIMexplorer - http://www.quantaq.com/usimcommander.htm
USIMprofiler - http://www.quantaq.com/usimprofiler.htm
Diploma for SIM and USIM Technology Examination
Mobile Telephone Diploma Core
Diploma:CSUT2
The latest MTEB Diploma Modules Guide is MTEdipl 2.2 can be downloaded here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/84491783/MTEdipl%202.2.pdf
MTEB Diploma CSUT2 Partner
Diploma for SIM and USIM Technology Examination
Mobile Telephone Diploma Core
Diploma:CSUT2
Partner Support
The Mobile Telephone Examination Board (MTEB) are pleased announce that Quantaq Solutions (http://www.quantaq.com/about.htm) have agreed to be the MTEB Diploma CSUT2 Partner. Quantaq Solutions role is as a "Partner Support". This role entails
- providing trial copies of software
- respond to technical enquiries that a student may require to make
to assist with the student's Diploma.
Moreover, Quantaq Solutions will host an MTEB webpage solely for use by MTEB Diploma Students so that students can have acess to the software and post questions to seek technical assistance.
MTEB selected to work with Quantaq Solutions as a "Partner Support" because of their existing experience with (U)SIM/smart card examination tools, their range of independent, stand-alone tools to analyse (action commands/receive responses) on SIM/Smartcard and their highly regarded technical knowledge and experience in the fields of:SIM, smartcards, NFC, RFID, M2M, location, DRM, security, cryptography, Mobile Wallet, technology, innovation, patents, technical design authority, standardisation, proof-of-concepts and software development
Gary Waite
His experience and technical background further underpin his credentials of his expertise:
- Founder of Quantaq Solutions
- Past Vice Chair of the Smart Card Group GSM Association
- Test software supplier to Global Certification Forum (GCF) Field Trial Guidelines
- Authored the original ETSI GSM 11.17 standard. This standard formalised the core test processes and procedures for SIM Cards and remains at the heart of (U)SIM testing, programming and examination today.
- First to introduce recording in CUST File (EF) a particular handset's IMEI on SIM Card, which is important, evidentially
- Employed as Technology Manager for the last 11 years with a well know international Mobile Network Operator
- Skilled in C/C++/Java
- Holds a Degree from the University of Abertay Dundee - Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Electronic Engineering
Diploma:CSUT2
Free trial access to the following tools will be made available to Diploma Students.
USIMdetective - http://www.quantaq.com/usimdetective.htm
USIMexplorer - http://www.quantaq.com/usimexplorer.htm
USIMexplorer - http://www.quantaq.com/usimcommander.htm
USIMprofiler - http://www.quantaq.com/usimprofiler.htm
Diploma for SIM and USIM Technology Examination
Mobile Telephone Diploma Core
Diploma:CSUT2
The latest MTEB Diploma Modules Guide is MTEdipl 2.2 can be downloaded here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/84491783/MTEdipl%202.2.pdf
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Mobile Forensics Diplomas
Following on from the article Forensic Erosion ( http://trewmte.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/forensic-erosion.html ) the MTEB Diplomas fill the gap between a time limited (expiration) certificate and a
Degree course. You may not have seen it but I did produce six MTEB
Diploma options and posted it here - http://trewmte.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/diplomas-mobile-telephone-evidence.html
. Moreover, it could help Universities focus their approach to
producing Mobile Forensics Degrees with applicants holding a Diploma
using it for credits towards the Degree.
The excellent feature of a possessing a Diploma is that it continues to have a value as representation of a person's knowledge, skills and experience similar to a BSc/MSc/PhD. Certificates (e.g. product training certificates) are useful but unless you purchase training year in year out for that same product, which the product can undergo regular changes, waving a five or ten year old certificate may be considered as to its relevance to the evidence or work of a person has been involved.
When a Diploma is undertaken it enables the student to demonstrate current knowledge, skills and experience whilst defining future objectives such as processes and procedures desired to be achieved or occurring in the current marketplace.
A Diploma does not require the student to develop a "new" or "unique" design, process or proposition previously undiscovered (unlike BSc, MSc or PhD trial and error) but demonstration of the student's existing knowledge and how to deploy those skillsets and experience with what works and only express where the subject sees marketplace events or targets to be achieved.
Diplomas are considerably less expensive than BSc, MSc and PhD as they are of a shorter study/submission period, thus present current knowledge, skills and experience to be known sooner and recognised (put to work) in current markets, without limitation of an expiration date associated with a product Certificate at one end of the scale or outdated by the time final semester (BSc/MSc/PhD) is achieved at the other end of the scale.
A Diploma module e.g. * Diploma for ME and UE Technology Examination - Mobile Telephone Diploma Core CMSU3 - enables a candidate to consider mobile/smart phone examination as a specific subject or consider the ME/UE in connection with/to:
* Foundation/Research Skills and/or
* QA and Evidence Handling and/or
* association with SIM and USIM Technology Examination and/or
* Call Records and Network Records Analysis and/or
* Cell Site Analysis
Thus permutation options for submission of a Diploma report may include the expression of ME and UE Technology Examination in isolation or include one or more of the above subjects.
The latest MTEB Diploma Modules Guide is MTEdipl 2.2 ( https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/84491783/MTEdipl%202.2.pdf )
The excellent feature of a possessing a Diploma is that it continues to have a value as representation of a person's knowledge, skills and experience similar to a BSc/MSc/PhD. Certificates (e.g. product training certificates) are useful but unless you purchase training year in year out for that same product, which the product can undergo regular changes, waving a five or ten year old certificate may be considered as to its relevance to the evidence or work of a person has been involved.
When a Diploma is undertaken it enables the student to demonstrate current knowledge, skills and experience whilst defining future objectives such as processes and procedures desired to be achieved or occurring in the current marketplace.
A Diploma does not require the student to develop a "new" or "unique" design, process or proposition previously undiscovered (unlike BSc, MSc or PhD trial and error) but demonstration of the student's existing knowledge and how to deploy those skillsets and experience with what works and only express where the subject sees marketplace events or targets to be achieved.
Diplomas are considerably less expensive than BSc, MSc and PhD as they are of a shorter study/submission period, thus present current knowledge, skills and experience to be known sooner and recognised (put to work) in current markets, without limitation of an expiration date associated with a product Certificate at one end of the scale or outdated by the time final semester (BSc/MSc/PhD) is achieved at the other end of the scale.
A Diploma module e.g. * Diploma for ME and UE Technology Examination - Mobile Telephone Diploma Core CMSU3 - enables a candidate to consider mobile/smart phone examination as a specific subject or consider the ME/UE in connection with/to:
* Foundation/Research Skills and/or
* QA and Evidence Handling and/or
* association with SIM and USIM Technology Examination and/or
* Call Records and Network Records Analysis and/or
* Cell Site Analysis
Thus permutation options for submission of a Diploma report may include the expression of ME and UE Technology Examination in isolation or include one or more of the above subjects.
The latest MTEB Diploma Modules Guide is MTEdipl 2.2 ( https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/84491783/MTEdipl%202.2.pdf )
Monday, August 30, 2010
Vision of Mobile Phones in 1976
Photo courtesy of www.paleofuture.com/
Vision of Mobile Phones in 1976
I am glad to see more and more information popping up on the Internet that identifies and reaffirms the exciting history of mobile telephones, originally called wireless telephones. I am and I believe I shall always be an advocate of this scientific technological advanced development. If there are details defining our science that can help people understand the history and future of mobile telephones then I want to know about it and let you know too.
In 2009 I set out historical reference relevant to mobile communications and telephones and in it referred to a particular important historical event, that being the first patented wireless telephone. "1908: Nathan B. Stubblefield invented and patented the first mobile telephone a 100-years ago." http://trewmte.blogspot.com/2009/01/mobile-forensics-and-evidence-degrees.html
A technological fact worth noting about Stubblefield's invention is that it did not make use of a computer central processing unit (CPU) which was not invented in 1908 and was many decades away. Thus mobile telephones were scientifically and technically defined then, as they are today, by the science with which the devices are intended to make use - wireless (radio signals)/telecommunications.
The Washington Post (February 20th 1910) ran a story of a development for wireless telephones to use an umbrella as an antenna and the thought that wireless telephones could be used for sending aerograms (a fore-runner idea to text messages) containing Valentine messages? http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2007/5/29/your-own-wireless-telephone-1910.html
The aerogram idea would not be an idea that would be far fetched for 1910 given that previously technology was already in use for sending text messages. One hundred years on, I wrote in 2010 about Victorian Texting and its origins. "Victorian Texting was made possible with the use of the Wheatstone's ABC Telegraph originated in 1842 developed by the English physicist and inventor Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875)." http://trewmte.blogspot.com/2010/01/victorian-texting.html
Wheatstone's invention of 1845 may fit with the notion for the possibility in 1910 of an aerogram (instead of a telegram) to be communicated over-the-air and again re-enforces the point how the concept of features originating from telecommunications could be used with wireless technology.
Sixty years on from 1910 our common understanding of mobile telephones started to come to fruitition. In 1976 a design (see image above) for the first portable telephone, so we are told, was not far off the design of mobile handsets used in the 1980s. http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2009/8/30/portable-telephones-1976.html
Through out the last century and up-to-date wireless telephones (mobile phones/smart phones) utilise a natural science that remains the kernal for and primary concept of mobile telephones that appears unchangeable position and that is mobiles use radio signals. Today we speak of cellular radio, but the natural waveform of radio signals is still analogue in nature, irrespective of the modulation treatment applied to the analogue signals. Mobile telephones today have analogue-to-digital (A/D) signal processors to convert the radio signal into a digital format. Naturally, mobiles equally use a digital-to-analogue signal prcessor. I guess the day mobile telephones no longer need or use radio signals for over-the-air communications then that is the day when when we might re-name them as smart electronic devices. Until then, mobile telephones are here to stay and, as far as I can see, for many decades to come.
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