# Digital Forensics

> Learn to investigate cybercrime, recover digital evidence, and analyze compromised systems for legal and corporate investigations.

Canonical: https://codelivly.com/career-paths/digital-forensics

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| Level | Intermediate |
| Category | Forensics |
| Learning paths | 18 |
| Salary range | USD 65,000 - 130,000 |

Digital Forensics is the practice of collecting, preserving, and analyzing electronic evidence to investigate cybercrimes, data breaches, and policy violations. This career path takes you from the fundamentals of file systems and evidence handling through disk, memory, network, and mobile forensics, culminating in the ability to build a chain-of-custody-compliant investigation and present findings that hold up in legal or corporate settings. You'll work hands-on with real forensic toolkits (Autopsy, FTK Imager, Volatility, Wireshark) to recover deleted files, analyze RAM dumps, trace attacker activity through logs, and reconstruct timelines of what happened during a security incident. By the end, you'll be prepared for roles investigating breaches, supporting law enforcement, or working within corporate incident response teams.

## Job titles

- Digital Forensics Analyst

## Related

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