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Ten years ago, you had to pack up your stuff and drive 10 hours to find a decent forensics training program. No longer. There's one in every state in the country. Take your pick!

Tennessee Forensics

Computer Forensics and Investigations

Tennessee Tech offers a 3-hour course on investigation, discovery, and analysis of digital computer evidence. You get to work on actually computer hardware, using the forensic software tools that you would encounter in forensic labs throughout the country. The upside here is that the forensics class doesn't require any prerequisites, only permission of the instructor.

University of Memphis

Cyber Security Expo Training

The University of Memphis offers a Cybersecurity Expo, where certified forensic consultants and forensics teachers offer lab training sessions throughout the month of October. The courses look at topics like web application penetration testing, looking at forensically-relevant techniques of exploring the vulnerabilities in online software. This includes SQL injection attacks for surreptitious access to back-end databases, and cross-site scripting attacks. This is really a good course to take to learn about your own website or domain's weaknesses before the black-hat hackers do.

University of Tennessee

10-week National Forensic Academy

The University of Tennessee hosts a 10-week training program for law enforcement agencies, teaching officers how to college, preserve and identify specimens during crime scene investigation. This is a long course: we're talking 400 hours of training per session, broken down into 170 hours of in-class study and 230 hours of field work. There is a comprehensive final exam at the end, as well as a practical exam.

The forensics school offers modules in pretty much every branch of forensic science: death investigation, WMD, trace evidence, fingerprinting, crime scene photography, tire and footwear impressions, DNA, courtroom testimony, CSI management, ballistics, bombs & booby-traps, arson and auto theft investigation. If you qualify, the program will even grant you 15 hours of undergraduate credit or 9 hours of graduate credit that you can apply toward a masters. If you're interested in the program, give them a call at 865-946-3023.

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