Self Reflection

Self Reflection

In this assignment I will talk about my reflection upon the course since I joined and how I’ve managed to work with team members to create a group presentation, and also what I have learnt from this. At one point in this subject aside from conducting and organizing meetings we were given a task to create a presentation about a topic that we wrote a report about that is related to IT so that is what I’m going to focus on.

When I and my group were preparing for the presentation we had to divide the work between us and selected certain points that we will talk about considering the topic of our presentation was about Digital Forensics. There were certain aspects that we thought we should cover and this included:-

• History of Forensics

• Types of Forensics

• Future of Forensics

My part was to talk about the history and also answering the questions. For this I had a few weeks to research the topic thoroughly and put together a slideshow full of useful information that I found it to be very easy thanks to the researching skills our teacher taught us which included searching for information from Google scholar. I went on to the website with my partner and researched what was required in order to display an interesting presentation about the topic. After that we began practicing for our actual presentation. During this time, we had regular meetings, almost every week and discussed what was to be done next. Every week we would get a task set and the all of us had to bring in their work the following week. I missed out on the first few weeks but then brought myself back into role when the time got closer and I think that was the reason why our presentation didn’t go very well as we expected it to be, I also learnt a lot of things that will help me when doing a research.

In conclusion I think we would have done much better with our performance if we had better organized our time and practiced regularly and didn’t skip our work and definitely the things I learned from this course will be a huge benefit to me in the future.

Report Section

Introduction

In this project we are going to talk about Digital Forensics. Digital Forensics is a section of forensic science that is meant to deal with the recovery and investigation of material found in digital devices. Digital evidence from computers, mobile phones and GPS technologies can provide critical details to an investigation so the purpose of digital forensics in case of an attack is to analyze the devices to determine what happened, when did it happen, how did it happen and who was involved. Therefore to get the job done and help collect evidence digital forensics covers specific areas for example:-

1-    Computer Security Incidents.

2-    Misuse of Computer Systems.

3-    Crimes using Computers.

4-    Crimes against a Computer System.

5-    Theft of Information.

6-    Timelines of Computer Activity.

Simply, to describe the functions of digital forensics it is “The preservation, identification, extraction, interpretation, and documentation of computer evidence, to include the rules of evidence, legal processes, integrity of evidence, factual reporting of the information found, and providing expert opinion’ in a court of law or other legal and/or administrative proceeding as to what was found” (Steve Hailey, 2002). This being said, Digital forensics techniques and methodologies are commonly used for conducting general investigations to determine the details or information it wants to recover instead of recovering all the information. In many instances, information that is gathered during a digital forensics investigation is not available or viewed by an average computer user, these information include deleted files, data in an unallocated area on a hard drive in addition, computers continually monitors and details the action of their users and to view these actions you need special skills and tools that is why digital forensics exists.

Conclusion

In conclusion, digital forensics techniques are commonly used to analyze computer systems which are involved in a cyber-crime and to recover data in the event of a hardware or software failure. Moreover it analyzes a computer system after a break-in to determine how the attacker gained access and what the attacker did. Because of this, digital forensics is important for solving cyber-crimes and collecting evidence with digital devices, against digital devices and against people where evidence may reside in a device. For this purpose there exist several tools and techniques to search and analyze digital data but regardless of these existing tools I believe that in evolving digital field and development of technology we need to focus our research more in digital forensics because today’s tools can’t keep up with the increasing complexity of cyber-crime.

 As we mentioned above, after few years when Memristors will be available commercially, the issues we are facing today will all disappear leaving a bright future for digital forensics. On top of this computer evidence represented by physical items such as boards, chips, monitors, central processing units, storage media and printers will be described easily and correctly as a unique form of physical evidence.

There are still some years left considering that HP plans to offer these commercially by 2012 and it is believed by some that these devices will replace the existing models between 2014-2016. This may take a while, but things move swiftly. Say goodbye to yesterday and hello to tomorrow. 

Meeting Agenda

LSEC N307                                      Meeting Assessment                Section: CMH

Date of Meeting: 5^th November 2012 Monday

Time of Meeting: 3:40pm

Venue: ADMC –W104

Group Members’ Role:

Chair: Ahmed

Minutes Taker: Hussain

Group Members: Jasem – Khalid

Venue Preparation: Drinks – Desk – Chairs – Papers – Pens

Topic: Sense of belonging and college spirit at ADMC

Agenda: need not be 6 points!

1.      Doing activities and events that joins students

2.      Arranging trips

3.      Make open day and sports day

4.      Building facilities for students

5.      Create a social network website

Objective(s)/Product: organize a plan and recommendations to create a sense of belonging at ADMC.

+Action Points:

Establishing plans and ideas to make students interact with each other and create a sense of belonging between them and college and then discuss how we can improve this of belonging.

Meeting Minutes

ADMC                   LSEC 307 Meeting Minutes                      CMH                    DESERT FOXES

Date of meeting: 4^th Nov 2012

Time of meeting: Start at: 3:40; Finish at: 4:10

Venue: W104

Memebers:  

 Ahmad Taleb (Chair);

 Hussain Omar (Minutes taker);

 Khalid Al Hammadi;  Jasem Al Hammadi (Participants)

 Salem Mohammed (Absent)

Our Meeting was about increasing sense of belonging at ADMC.

The first point we discussed was about establishing clubs and trips

-          Jasem  suggested to make an open day for students

-          Khalid proposed that the open day should differ from week to week

-          They also suggested to make events and tournaments between other colleges

The next points were about building facilities and creating a social website

       -     Jasem proposed that the facilities should be also be open for family members

       -     Khalid suggested that when building a social website it should also include communications between students and ADMC staff

Action Points:

-           The chairman gave tasks for Jasem and Khalid

-           Jasem was assigned to choose the most suitable way for us to collecting carnation

-           Khalid was assigned to collect information after Jasem choose the appropriate may

-            I was tasked to send those information to the chairman

Meeting Reflective Statement

 Me and my group held a meeting on November 4th to talk about how we can increase the sense of belonging and college spirit at ADMC. The meeting started at 3:40 PM and ended at 400 PM. Our group consisted of 5 members: I was the chairman, Hussain was the minute taker, Jasem ,Salem and Khalid were the participants but Salem didn't attend.

As chairman I think the most difficult part for us was when we had to come up with points to discuss regarding the topic in 10 minutes. We did some brainstorming but that resulted in general ideas only which we didn’t have the chance to discuss them in depth in the actual meeting so this was a critical point for our group First we looked at the opportunity for providing some facilities, including a purpose-built hall which could include, for example entertainment rooms for students and college staff. 

We also discussed conducting regular events that would improve social life on campus. After that, we looked on how to have college administrators consider plans for vacation activities such as camping or study tours. Then we suggested the idea of building a social website like a forum or chatroom to help improve the social life in every possible way. Lastly, we decided to write our recommendations and discuss the budget to implement the plan. Aside from that I can honestly say that the participation from the group members has been very impressive although we had one member missing.

 At the end of our meeting we came up with a number of goals and I assigned tasks to each member so we can achieve those goals and then hand our results to ADMC Administrators. I thank Hussain for providing us with refreshments at each of our meetings. It helped to develop the character of our meetings and we greatly appreciate it. Special thanks to MR.virhovnik for continued support and guidance.

Unsolicited Letter

P.O Box
Abu Dhabi
Mob 0507220558
24 September 2012
XXG-00W0@hotmail.com

Dr. Salwa Al-Noaimi
Vice President
Etihad Airways
P.O. Box 35566

Dear Ms. Salwa Al-Noaimi

I am interested in working for your company as an IT Engineer because I reviewed your company online and I thought it would be a perfect fit between my skills and your IT needs.

As you will see from my attached c.v, I have studied IT for 2 years at Abu Dhabi Men’s College and I expect to graduate in 2014. Also you will see that my skills and experience match the IT positions you are filling in your company so if possible I would like to work for you while studying.

I have also taken the ICDL course at Zayed University as well as a summer course at your company for about two months so I am familiar with the nature of your work IT department.

My communication skills are excellent both in Arabic and English written and spoken; I also have experience in some programs and networking aspects as well as disassembling a computer and putting it back together all of this acquired from the years I studied in HCT. I am still learning new stuff that I’m sure if applied at work it will be to the benefit of the company.

I’m looking forward to attend an interview with your company at any time every day after 4 o’clock.

I will call your office next week to confirm that you received my letter and to make sure if you have any questions for me. I would be delighted to discuss with you my CV and plans for development at your convenience.
Thank you for your consideration, I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

 

Ahmed Taleb Al Wahedi

Solicited Letter

P.O Box
Abu Dhabi
Mob 0507220558
25 September 2012
XXG-00W0@hotmail.com

Dr. Hanadi Obaid
HR Manager
Taqa Global
P.O. Box 55224

Dear Ms. Hanadi Obaid

This is in response to your email to HCT regarding recruitment of IT Security students that was sent on 13 Aug 2012. I am studying IT Security at HCT so when I read your letter and researched your company I got interested in working for you because I feel that your environment is compatible with my skills.

As you will see from my attached c.v, I have studied IT for 2 years at Abu Dhabi Men’s College and I expect to graduate in 2014. Also you will see that my skills and experience match the IT positions you are filling in your company.

I have also taken the ICDL course at Zayed University as well as a summer course at your company for about two months so I am familiar with the nature of your work IT department.

My communication skills are excellent both in Arabic and English written and spoken; I also got experience in some programs and networking aspects as well as disassembling a computer and putting it back together all of this acquired from the years I studied in HCT and am still learning new stuff that I’m sure if applied at work it will be to the benefit of the company.

I’m looking forward to attend an interview with your company at any time seeing that I’m available every day after 4 o’clock.

I will call your office next week to confirm that you received my letter and to make sure if you have any questions for me. I would be delighted to discuss with you my CV and plans for development at your convenience. Thank you for your consideration, I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

 

Ahmed Taleb Al Wahedi