GIAC Launches New Certification for Advanced Smartphone Forensics, GASF

BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 27, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- GIAC, the leading provider and developer of Cyber Security Certifications, has launched a new certification for GIAC Advanced Smartphone Forensics (GASF).

The new GIAC Advanced Smartphone Forensics is for professionals who want to demonstrate that they are qualified to perform forensic examinations on devices such as mobile phones and tablets. Candidates are required to demonstrate an understanding of the fundamentals of mobile forensics, device file system analysis, mobile application behavior, event artifact analysis and the identification and analysis of mobile device malware. Get certified in GIAC Advanced Smartphone Forensics: www.giac.org/u/lnr

Successful GASF candidates will demonstrate an advanced understanding, and application, of core smartphone forensic analysis concepts and techniques to extract artifacts from mobile devices and its components.  Certified individuals will be able to leverage tools, scripts and decoding techniques to parse data and determine how the artifact was placed on the device and how it pertains to the investigation. 

"The new GASF is the first smartphone forensic certification that focuses on analysis and not just tool acquisition provided by commercial vendors. This certification shows that individuals not only understand how to leverage tools to acquire and triage data, but understand how the data was placed on the device, how to parse the data when the commercial tool cannot support it and most importantly what the artifact represents," stated Heather Mahalik, co-author of SANS training course FOR585: Advanced Smartphone Forensics.

This certification is not associated with any mobile forensics vendor or tool, making it the only vendor-agnostic mobile forensic certification in the industry. For help with registering for the GASF certification exam, please email: [email protected]

About GIAC
Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) is a certification body featuring over 30 hands-on, technical certifications in information security. GIAC has certified over 85,000 IT security professionals since it was founded in 1999. Eleven GIAC certifications are accredited under the IEC/ISO/ANSI 17024 quality standard for certifying bodies. GIAC is an affiliate of the SANS Institute. (www.GIAC.org)

About SANS Institute
The SANS Institute was established in 1989 as a cooperative research and education organization. SANS is the most trusted and, by far, the largest provider of training and certification to professionals at governments and commercial institutions worldwide.  Renowned SANS instructors teach over 50 different courses at more than 200 live cyber security training events as well as online.  GIAC, an affiliate of the SANS Institute, validates employee qualifications via 30 hands-on, technical certifications in information security.  The SANS Technology Institute, a regionally accredited independent subsidiary, offers master's degrees in cyber security. SANS offers a myriad of free resources to the InfoSec community including consensus projects, research reports, and newsletters; it also operates the Internet's early warning system--the Internet Storm Center. At the heart of SANS are the many security practitioners, representing varied global organizations from corporations to universities, working together to help the entire information security community. (www.SANS.org)

SOURCE Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)

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