digital forensics expert
Code 2529.2
Digital forensics experts retrieve and analyse information from computers and other types of data storage devices. They examine digital media that may have been hidden, encrypted or damaged, in a forensic manner with the aim to identify, preserve, recover, analyse and present facts and opinions about the digital information.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- computer forensics
- resource description framework query language
- query languages
- ICT security standards
- ICT network security risks
Skills and competences
- implement ICT network diagnostic tools
- apply reverse engineering
- cyber attack counter-measures
- develop information security strategy
- manage data for legal matters
- manage IT security compliances
- penetration testing tool
- identify ICT system weaknesses
- perform ICT security testing
- perform forensic preservations of digital devices
- gather data for forensic purposes
- use scripting programming
- use software for data preservation
Transversal competences
- information confidentiality
- educate on data confidentiality
- secure sensitive customer's information
- identify ICT security risks
- provide ICT consulting advice
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences