UAV (Drone) Forensics Certification Workshop

8 Hours / 1-Day

This one-day intermediate level workshop will equip you with the practical skills and competencies required to identify and perform analysis of data from various sources of storage media recovered from Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), also known as Drones, including their associated control devices in line with approved best practices

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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.