UAV (Drone) Forensics Certification Workshop
8 Hours / 1-Day
Introduction to UAV Forensics
- Introduction to sUAS
- Discussion on the criminal use of UAV’s
- Drone adaptation
- Capacity and Capability of drones
- Linked devices – controller considerations
- Understanding of how flight logs are created and updated
- Aircraft power on flowchart.

Components of sUAS
- Components and features of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS)
- Introduction to controller options
- Mobile and Tablet Devices
- Bespoke flight controllers
- Integrated displays
- FPV controllers
- Autonomous flights
- Return-to-home feature
- WiFi controls
- Signal interception.

Extraction Techniques
- Discussion on the extraction of data from the aircraft
- Discussion on the Extraction of data from mobile \ tablet device
- Disassembling techniques
- Arguments for and against
- Automated tool collections

Interpretation of Data
- Techniques in using opensource and commercial forensic tools to review the evidence
- Interpretation of data contained on the UAV
- Extracting registered user information
- Identifying Aircraft details
- Flight log analysis techniques
- Interpretation of data from portable devices
- Default folder structures of the controlling app from an Android and iOS device
- Synchronized logs vs. local logs
- Media file examination (geolocations and dates & times)
- Workflows in combining offline files for further analysis
- Techniques in the interpretation additional data on other devices.
- Interpretation of data contained on the UAV

Final assessment certification exam
Course Information
- 1-Day Workshop
- Certification Exam
Prerequisites
To get the most out of this class, you should:
- Have 6 months experience of forensic examinations
- Be familiar with the Windows Operating system.

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