Advanced digital forensic professional (level 7)
Undertake and innovate the capture, processing, and analysis of specialist digital forensic evidence.
- Qualification level
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7
Equivalent to master’s degree. - Typical duration
- 36 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Digital
- Maximum funding
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£27,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Digital forensic specialist
- Senior digital forensic investigator
- Senior digital forensic practitioner
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Apply legislation and guidance for the capture and examination of digital data to casework and decision-making.
- Conduct investigations and manage evidence ethically to ensure safeguarding of victims and vulnerable persons, including providing support in the technical working environment when dealing with digital devices and data that may contain personal, sensitive or potentially distressing information.
- Undertake work to support the accreditation of novel techniques, from proof of concept through to embedding approved techniques within the laboratory.
- Develop legal and ethical digital forensic strategies and communicate with a range of stakeholders to implement these to proactively support serious and complex investigations.
- Mentoring skills to support the performance of the digital forensics team. Providing advice and guidance with particular emphasis on embedding specialist techniques.
- Co-ordinate the allocation, delivery, and priority of team workload to advance and support investigation.
- Lead the advanced application of specialist principles for digital forensic science, ensuring the use of cutting-edge technical evidence for the investigative process.
- Process, analyse and interpret complex digital data for the purposes of establishing forensic evidence for investigations.
- Interrogate the components and artefacts of complex digital material in a forensic manner to find evidence relevant to investigations.
- Physically examine damaged or broken devices and remove data, utilising specialist tools and techniques, for example Chip-off and Joint Test Action Group (JTAG).
- Solve complex problems and technically challenge the constraints of digital forensic methodologies.
- Communicate, negotiate, and influence on various skill and sensitivity levels to support all parts of the investigative process, including addressing highly technical concepts in an accessible format.
- Provide trusted digital forensic evidence for the investigative process, producing comprehensive reports, technical explanations, and statements in accordance with rules of evidence. Distinguishing between factual and interpretive expert reporting.
- Conduct literature reviews and select appropriate research methodologies to address research gaps in digital forensics.
- Research data collection, analyse information to draw meaningful conclusions, and communicate the research findings.
- Collaborate with partners across disciplines to advance national digital forensics and evaluate emerging technology.
- Follow and apply sustainability, equity, diversity and inclusion policies and procedures.
- Use specialist multi-capability techniques to forensically identify and examine the authenticity of evidential material.
- Apply knowledge of new technological risks and threats to influence change to the digital forensic examination process.
Full information on Advanced digital forensic professional (level 7) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.
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