Weekly log- week 5

Weekly study;

Week: 5

Day	Planned to do	Did
Monday	Finish the FTK lab session If done- update and upload blog posts from this week If time after: Re-cap over todays lecture Reading for Wednesdays lecture Have a think about coursework To be updated as I go along Need to a what I learnt this week Upload log Ftk lab session Comp sec lab 3 SYSDA lab 4	Email regarding work experience Made a plan for this week Finished and uploaded FTK lab session Uploaded last weeks work log Attempted some networking Will have to see SYSDA when I get home Made notes on comfic lecture
Tuesday	Decide what I am doing for coursework- once I have a response I need to do the 300 words If I cant do this- further reading on each of this/last weeks topics If this is done then do a blog post Type up compsec notes Reading on network intrusion If time left- clean up website Start to tag my blog e.g. FTK acquisition would become tagged as FTK	Uploaded FTK lab session and SYSDA Decided coursework will be sending data safely during forensic analysis Lots of work on my coursework-decided to review the live forensic analysis of Windows 7 machines- 300 words done and ready Found the process is to use something like helix live to boot the laptop, then send it through an encrypted server like nc- will have access to RAM!
Wednesday	Upload notes from compsec and FTK	Typed up compsec notes FTK longer than first expected!
Thursday	FTK work- finishing the lab- also consider uploading blog post about doing a case- 1 hour Finish SYSDA tutorial- 1 hour Coursework relating to SYSDA- awaiting reply- done notes on network intrusion- 2 hour but not in one go! consider things not done Tuesday- clean up blog clean- 1 hour then one hour left- do some reading on SYSDA! Left- 2 hour network 1 sysda blog All tasks completed	SYSDA tutorial finished FTK work- created image of camera- also did 1 hour of the lab session Continues with Wednesdays lab session for 1 hour Network intrusion- spent 2 hours making notes 4 30- 5 15- Blog work and coursework notes Made a blog post on TCP handshake Looked at cyber security events near me, send 1 email- may be worth doing some of this at home Worked on SYSDA coursework Details about comp sec coursework Found article: linked below https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/ug/2007/co620-projects/forensic/report.pdf
Friday	Going in to lab at 9- coming out at 2- bus at 2 20- 2 30 -3 30 gym So can do a good 5 hours Reading on all 3 topics of this week- 1 hour each- depending on Tuesday it may be for next weeks lectures Do all not finished so far Reading on netcat Video	Received message about going to cybersecurity event Unable to do reading as documents would not load Due to these complications- switched reading to Sunday Read article and made notes: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/ug/2007/co620-projects/forensic/report.pdf watched videos on netcat Read netcat- sns article FTK lab session work
Saturday	Not working as not called in Studying from 2 30- 11 with breaks Originally planned: re-cap of my documents update blog with relevant files etc if time- what I learnt this week etc reading from one of my books? Adding on: 45 minutes reading OS book 45 File system forensic analysis book Reading of netcat article- 45 Keep in mind- 7 30 -9 30 8 30 12 30 See below table for today breakdown	made very in depth notes on netcat forensic validity copied the commands over for transferring files very useful Instead of file system reading- wrote up the notes from SYSDA lecture 5 on windows file systems Could not find comp sec reading- will have to check other book Updated blog to contain all lecs, what I learnt this week etc Little bit of reading on dining crypto 45 minutes reading of modelling and analysis of security protocols book Managed to analyse a protocol, explaining features- which probably turn this in to a blog post at some point Reading on netcat and cryptcat- moved network intrusion reading to tomorrow Read digital handbook of forensics notes that I had previously made on Network intrustion Intrusion investigation Mobile forensics Windows system forenics Embedded system analysis
Sunday	This is a 9-5 – Huge amount of work that I can do: should consider as below Anything not yet completed- think Fridays reading- 1 hour 45 – incident and network intrusion Blog clean up 1 and upload- Job searching- I want to make a document that includes terms used for searching, salaries, locations etc- 30 mins                       Think about my pics on blog- recreating 5 Can I publish this Sunday? Once I done this: Quick read and notes on next weeks lectures 6 Plan for the next week as starting with 2 days off! Further reading on topic of choice 7 Re-cap of digital handbook of forensics notes Blog post? 8 Need to do the whole 8 hours as it is HUGELY beneficial This is a 9-5 library day! Lab sessions- see if I can add to blog that some will be updated when completed as they are 3 weeks long Clean up SYSDA Maybe due for a blog clean up Monday?	9- 10 45- reading on incident and network intru 10 50- 11 50- blog clean up- think about uploading this week stuff Job stuff- until 12 20 Reading and notes on next week until 1 30 Logged in to Target, had a look at jobs- made note to message company near me who does forensic stuff Planning for next week- 2 Further reading on security protocols until 3 30 Cleaning up SYSDA- 3 50 Blog revisited- focused on uploading all lecture notes, what I learnt this week and then did some cleaning Still needs work- May be worth practicing navigation Make sure all the same font etc Will be uploading log later Further reading on Operating Systems Tonight: consider cleaning up computer security lecture notes