Legal and Ethical Cyber Investigations

Course Overview

This course takes you on a journey through the entire cyber investigation process, starting with understanding the legal landscape and regulatory requirements. You'll learn how to properly collect, preserve, and analyse digital evidence while maintaining chain of custody and ensuring admissibility in court. We'll explore various types of cybercrimes, from traditional computer fraud to emerging threats like cryptocurrency crimes and social engineering attacks. This course is designed for professionals directly engaged in cybercrime investigations and digital evidence handling. It serves law enforcement officers and detectives who investigate criminal activities, corporate security professionals and incident response teams responsible for protecting organizations, legal professionals who interpret and present digital evidence in legal proceedings, as well as compliance officers and risk management specialists ensuring regulatory adherence. This course is designed for law enforcement officers and detectives, corporate security and incident response professionals, legal practitioners handling digital evidence, and compliance or risk management officers. Whether you’re working in public service, corporate security, or the legal and regulatory space, you’ll gain the skills to conduct cyber investigations that are both technically sound and legally defensible. Learners should have a basic understanding of computer systems and networks. While familiarity with legal or investigative processes is helpful, it is not required—the course builds foundational knowledge and equips you with practical, hands-on skills. By the end of this course, learners will be equipped to evaluate global legal frameworks and jurisdictional challenges in cyber investigations, apply proper evidence collection and preservation methods while maintaining chain of custody, analyse diverse cybercrime patterns using forensic methodologies, and create detailed case reports and courtroom presentations that effectively communicate complex technical findings.