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2020-2021 Course Catalog 
    
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NET 186 - E-Discovery II - File Culling

Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 4
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: Voc/Tech
This course focuses on the aspects of post acquisition, data processing as part of e-discovery implementations.  Additional consideration is given to review and reporting as well as testimony expectations surrounding the e-discovery process. 
Prerequisite: NET 185  
Competencies
 

  1. Discuss E-discovery Culling and Processing.
    1. Explain techniques used in the culling process.
    2. Discuss user documents, locations, and relevance.
  2. Analyze how to type specific data by type
    1. Explain the difference between the file extension and the file header.
    2. Describe separating files and emails by file signature
    3. Describe separating files and emails by category and provide counts
  3. Explore the purposes of hashing data.
    1. Explain near or fuzzy hashing
    2. Explore using hashing for de-duplication of data
    3. Describe hashing techniques to eliminate known data
  4. Analyze common data issues surrounding data searching and analysis
    1. Discuss the issues associated with compressed data and methods of examining the contents
    2. Describe the problems of data encryption and the methods to circumvent the situations
  5. Evaluate the significance and limitations of keyword searching and date ranging.
    1. Discuss the creation of single term or phrase search list
    2. Describe the usage of Boolean searching
    3. Explore the creation of acceptable keyword and phrase lists based on case specifics
    4. Describe the limitations of searching
  6. Characterize the methods and necessity for optical character recognition
    1. Classify files needing OCR
    2. Discuss the limitations of OCR
    3. Explain the OCR process and review of data
  7. Evaluate methods to deal with exceptions.
    1. Summarize technical implementations
    2. Discuss the importance client communication

Competencies Revised Date: 2019



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