Authenticate Training Course

Course description

The course combines lectures and hands-on activities. It begins with the introduction to integrity and authenticity, followed by an explanation of the image generation pipeline and how artifacts are introduced during the creation and manipulation of images. The course then demonstrates how Amped Authenticate uses these artifacts to reveal the processing history of images and videos and how to extract information on integrity, authenticity and source device.

Ideal for

• digital forensic experts
• users in need to use Amped Authenticate for their investigations
   

Learning objectives

• make the most of newly released filters and less known features of Amped Authenticate
• acquire the fundamentals of image and video generation and compression
• investigate the integrity and the authenticity of digital images and videos through metadata and pixel analysis
• carry out source device identification
• use OSINT sources to aid the analysis
• follow a forensically sound workflow for unveiling the processing history of media (integrity, provenance, authenticity)
• generate compelling, forensically sound and scientific reports
  
   

Pre-requisites

• basic proficiency with Microsoft Windows
• good English reading and listening skills
• preferred: basic notions about image processing (see the "pre-read" material provided before the course); basic knowledge about files/filesystem