Work log 1

Day
Text Box: Weekly study
Week: 1

Planned to do
Did
Monday
Hour reading relating to todays lecture on computer security

Hour reading on comfic-

Little bit of reading on systems

Plan for upcoming week
Did reading on computer security- really need to work on my crypto knowledge

Did some reading on basic incidence response- both this book and comp sec have been taken out

Reading on systems lectures as books were not available online- read 2 lectures, no notes on two as not enough time

Made plan for upcoming week
Checked forensic focus
Tuesday
Do further reading of one source for each of my lectures that I did not do on Monday- so do a bit more of the forensics, comp sec AND systems- 3 hours

Comp sec- write up lec 1 notes instead of reading

Read ACPO guidelines! 30 mins

Make a blog post- starting the weekly updates and an in depth one about something- 20 mins

More reading on embedded system analysis- 30 mins

Find and write about a SANS article if doing well for time

Downloaded VMware pro

Completed reading on incidence response whilst on train

Completed lecture 1 notes for comp sec- did find it confusing so may need more work!

Did some ACPO reading- made notes on the big 4 principles

Notes on embedded system analysis

Wednesday
None planned
Made shortcuts for learning UNIX and Linux

Potentially downloaded vm ubuntu


Thursday

You finish uni at 12 and have 4 and a half hours until you leave- so revise for 3 hours!

Uni Break- do linux work

Take linux book out

Make a note of all courseworks- hand in dates etc

Reading on comp sec- do this in the bath at Fareham? Cant fs

Blog post to do with what I have learnt this week




Did basic linux work between lectures on ubuntu, almost completed first task sheet

Took linux and unix books out

Made note of all coursework and such

Updated blog so that it now includes a weekly summary of what I learnt as well as weekly lecture and lab posts
Friday
Up and ready to go by 10 no excuses- revise until 2 30
Food break then work 3 30 until 4 30-

Do a bit of further reading on all of the lectures I had this week

Research windows OS


More experience on Ubuntu- read from book with ubuntu up

If time: Re-visit registry notes
Finish embedded systems
Re-read lecture notes for this week
Further reading for comp will be done when doing turkey
Arranged windows for Monday

Reading from SYSDA can be done with0
n  Andrew S. Tanenbaum, “Modern Operating Systems”, 4th Edition, Pearson, 2014 (MOS)
n  See section 1.8 on the C programming language.
n  Brian Carrier, “File System Forensic Analysis”, 2005 (FSFA)
n  Chapter 2.

Did half hour reading on incidence response and typed notes
Little bit of comp sec while cooking turkey

Then did half hour on linux from dummy book
Located documents and files
Saturday
If no work then you have from 9 30 until 6 to revise! That is plenty of time

Reading for next week’s stuff- pract as well

Re-read practical’s and do them- once done update blog and work book
Ubuntu work- work with linux/unix book

Further reading on all from next week

Plan and notes for next week
Finish anything not done so far
Started at 1 15 due to car difficulties and having to drop gf home
1 115 – 18 15

Read over next weeks lectures- 1 hour- could only find reading on comfic and comp sec- did reading made notes, UNDERSTOOD IT FOR ONCE

Did practicals and logbook
Comp sec
Comfic
SYSDA

Took longer than expected but allis done, comfic is potentially blog ready!

Sunday
Read over notes
Finish anything not already done
Read book if I get the chance!




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