Data Capture Wizard: Acquisition & Storage Media – CPD Short Course
June 23 – June 27 UK/Southampton
Think acquisition is simple? Think again. TPMs are gatekeeping encryption, IoT devices are breeding like cyber-rabbits, and even your fridge is now a potential crime scene. Welcome to 2025, where digital forensic acquisition is a battlefield, and you need the right tools, skills, and sheer cunning to collect evidence effectively.
This five-day course is your hands-on, practitioner-led guide to mastering the modern acquisition landscape. Every topic includes purpose-built, interactive practical exercises, using appropriate low level tools (yes, including SDRs and chip-off methods, because sometimes you have to get that hands-on).
What’s on the menu?
– The Generalised Acquisition Framework – ensuring scientific rigor (already successfully used in cases worldwide!)
– Verification & Advanced verification – because just acquiring isn’t enough anymore
– Memory acquisition – RAM, volatile storage, and those sneaky artifacts
– Servers, networks, and cloud – because the evidence isn’t always on a single device
– Web & social media – OSINT meets forensic extraction
– Mobile phones & portable devices – everything from burner phones to encrypted nightmares
– Unusual devices – smartwatches, medical devices, even games consoles
– CCTV – cracking DVR systems & video forensics
– IoT – Washing machines, fridges, toasters, and rogue vacuum cleaners included
– Data in transit – capturing the evidence before it disappears
– Wireless acquisition – untangling the chaos of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and more
– Low-level hardware acquisition – chip-off, JTAG, ISP, and beyond
– Vehicles – because cars are computers now
– Equipment interference – when you need to get extra creative
– ISO and FSR compliance strategies
Where’s the fun happening?
– Work in our custom electronics lab (170+ seats)
– Get hands-on in a large-scale technical teaching lab (170+ seats)
– Experiment in an anechoic chamber – because sometimes you need a Faraday cage for science
Taught by practitioners who are also academics, this isn’t just theory, it’s real-world, trial-by-fire, hands-dirty low level learning.
Cost: £3,700 per student
Bursaries available (but limited!)
If you want to stop acquisition from being the nightmare that keeps you up at night, this course is for you!
To Book or Ask Questions:
Contact the Sherfox Team (ECS @ UoS) on ecs.digital.forensics@soton.ac.uk
