Self Reflection

Self Reflection

In this assignment I will talk about my reflection upon the course since I joined and how I’ve managed to work with team members to create a group presentation, and also what I have learnt from this. At one point in this subject aside from conducting and organizing meetings we were given a task to create a presentation about a topic that we wrote a report about that is related to IT so that is what I’m going to focus on.

When I and my group were preparing for the presentation we had to divide the work between us and selected certain points that we will talk about considering the topic of our presentation was about Digital Forensics. There were certain aspects that we thought we should cover and this included:-

• History of Forensics

• Types of Forensics

• Future of Forensics

My part was to talk about the history and also answering the questions. For this I had a few weeks to research the topic thoroughly and put together a slideshow full of useful information that I found it to be very easy thanks to the researching skills our teacher taught us which included searching for information from Google scholar. I went on to the website with my partner and researched what was required in order to display an interesting presentation about the topic. After that we began practicing for our actual presentation. During this time, we had regular meetings, almost every week and discussed what was to be done next. Every week we would get a task set and the all of us had to bring in their work the following week. I missed out on the first few weeks but then brought myself back into role when the time got closer and I think that was the reason why our presentation didn’t go very well as we expected it to be, I also learnt a lot of things that will help me when doing a research.

In conclusion I think we would have done much better with our performance if we had better organized our time and practiced regularly and didn’t skip our work and definitely the things I learned from this course will be a huge benefit to me in the future.

Report Section

Introduction

In this project we are going to talk about Digital Forensics. Digital Forensics is a section of forensic science that is meant to deal with the recovery and investigation of material found in digital devices. Digital evidence from computers, mobile phones and GPS technologies can provide critical details to an investigation so the purpose of digital forensics in case of an attack is to analyze the devices to determine what happened, when did it happen, how did it happen and who was involved. Therefore to get the job done and help collect evidence digital forensics covers specific areas for example:-

1-    Computer Security Incidents.

2-    Misuse of Computer Systems.

3-    Crimes using Computers.

4-    Crimes against a Computer System.

5-    Theft of Information.

6-    Timelines of Computer Activity.

Simply, to describe the functions of digital forensics it is “The preservation, identification, extraction, interpretation, and documentation of computer evidence, to include the rules of evidence, legal processes, integrity of evidence, factual reporting of the information found, and providing expert opinion’ in a court of law or other legal and/or administrative proceeding as to what was found” (Steve Hailey, 2002). This being said, Digital forensics techniques and methodologies are commonly used for conducting general investigations to determine the details or information it wants to recover instead of recovering all the information. In many instances, information that is gathered during a digital forensics investigation is not available or viewed by an average computer user, these information include deleted files, data in an unallocated area on a hard drive in addition, computers continually monitors and details the action of their users and to view these actions you need special skills and tools that is why digital forensics exists.

Conclusion

In conclusion, digital forensics techniques are commonly used to analyze computer systems which are involved in a cyber-crime and to recover data in the event of a hardware or software failure. Moreover it analyzes a computer system after a break-in to determine how the attacker gained access and what the attacker did. Because of this, digital forensics is important for solving cyber-crimes and collecting evidence with digital devices, against digital devices and against people where evidence may reside in a device. For this purpose there exist several tools and techniques to search and analyze digital data but regardless of these existing tools I believe that in evolving digital field and development of technology we need to focus our research more in digital forensics because today’s tools can’t keep up with the increasing complexity of cyber-crime.

 As we mentioned above, after few years when Memristors will be available commercially, the issues we are facing today will all disappear leaving a bright future for digital forensics. On top of this computer evidence represented by physical items such as boards, chips, monitors, central processing units, storage media and printers will be described easily and correctly as a unique form of physical evidence.

There are still some years left considering that HP plans to offer these commercially by 2012 and it is believed by some that these devices will replace the existing models between 2014-2016. This may take a while, but things move swiftly. Say goodbye to yesterday and hello to tomorrow. 

Meeting Agenda

LSEC N307                                      Meeting Assessment                Section: CMH

Date of Meeting: 5^th November 2012 Monday

Time of Meeting: 3:40pm

Venue: ADMC –W104

Group Members’ Role:

Chair: Ahmed

Minutes Taker: Hussain

Group Members: Jasem – Khalid

Venue Preparation: Drinks – Desk – Chairs – Papers – Pens

Topic: Sense of belonging and college spirit at ADMC

Agenda: need not be 6 points!

1.      Doing activities and events that joins students

2.      Arranging trips

3.      Make open day and sports day

4.      Building facilities for students

5.      Create a social network website

Objective(s)/Product: organize a plan and recommendations to create a sense of belonging at ADMC.

+Action Points:

Establishing plans and ideas to make students interact with each other and create a sense of belonging between them and college and then discuss how we can improve this of belonging.