AAS in Science in InfoSec and Forensics

Did I say something bad? 151 views and not one response from people in the field I would like to go in?

OK, I read the degree requirements and didn't reply at first, hoping that someone else might have a greater insight than I did. Maybe everyone else felt the same way.

Here are some thoughts.

1) Course titles don't provide much to go on. With that caveat, there appears to be only one course on digital forensics. The other courses will provide valuable background, but as far as forensics is concerned, it hardly seems sufficient to include it in the title of the degree.

2) The ISFCE website suggests some books for independent study – and there are a few other good ones as well, such as Brian Carrier's File System Forensics book, Steve Bunting's ENCE book, and Harlan Carvey's Windows Forensics book, not to mention his upcoming book on registry analysis.

3) I suspect that, if you took the topics from these materials and fashioned a curriculum around them, it would amount to much more than can possibly be taught in a semester. Thus, you're probably scratching the surface.

In sum, if you're expecting to get some of the basics, and an introduction to the field, this AAS may be what you're looking for.

/scott

Thank you so much for responding. Yes, I do see this as just the first step and thank you for the advice.

When I was finishing my BS in IA, I only had one forensic course. It was a very basic course covering mostly legal issues on briefly touched on some common forensic tools. As TuckerHST said, the course titles don’t offer much in the way of what the courses cover, but I’d imagine that it would be similar to what I had. Once I started working on my MS in Forensics, I really began to see everything that is involved in the field.

So far, I have read Brian Carrier’s book and I’m currently reading Steve Bunting’s book, in addition to several others, and both are very good. Something else to look into is Computer Forensics Library Box Set . This includes Brian Carrier's book as well as two others.

I have to agree, if you only want an intro to forensics then this might be a good choice. If you are looking to get enough knowledge to break into the field, you may want to look into a curriculum which focuses on forensics and not one that only throws an introduction class in with other courses.

I did some digging into the college curriculum and this is some of the material they use.
http//www.eccouncil.org/training/course_outline/ceh_course_outline.aspx
http//www.eccouncil.org/certification/computer_hacking_forensic_investigator.aspx
http//www.amazon.com/dp/0764549499?tag=schildnet0c&link_code=as3&creativeASIN=0764549499&creative=373489&camp=211189