Zero-Trust Approach to Memory forensics

RCCE students will learn volatile memory acquisition and analysis including RAM capture techniques, process enumeration, network connection analysis, code injection detection, rootkit discovery, and malware artifact extraction from memory. RCCE students will learn to use memory forensics tools to acquire memory images from live systems, analyze process trees for suspicious parent-child relationships, detect hidden and injected processes, extract encryption keys and credentials from memory, identify command and control communications, reconstruct attacker activity from memory artifacts, and integrate memory forensics findings into broader incident investigation timelines. This zero-trust course applies modern security principles including least privilege, continuous verification, and explicit trust evaluation. At an expert level, RCCE students will learn to implement zero-trust architectures that assume breach and verify every access request regardless of network location. Students build practical zero-trust implementations that align with organizational security modernization goals.