eDiscovery Certification Council
Professional Training Course • Vendor-Neutral • Self-Paced Online
Certified eDiscovery & Forensic Data Expert (CeFDE)
Build practitioner-level expertise in forensic data collection, reconstruction, eDiscovery integration, AI and defensibility.
Course Details
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| Duration | 4 Hours and 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Exam Language | English |
| Exam Expiration | 1 Year from Purchase |
| Study Guide | eCourseware / Self-paced online |
Detailed Course Outline
The course covers the subject areas below, based on the detailed curriculum published for this programme.
Course Overview
- Overview of the Course and Certification
1 – The Digital Evidence & Discovery Landscape
- Introduction
- Evolution and lifecycle of digital evidence
- Three pillars of digital evidence
- Data sources: email, chat and collaboration apps
- Structured vs unstructured data
- Core stakeholders
- Chain-of-custody principles
- Current collection challenges
- Quiz
2 – Legal, Regulatory and Compliance Frameworks
- Core eDiscovery principles and Civil Procedure Rules
- UK GDPR and Data Protection Act
- Disclosure requirements in civil litigation
- International transfers
- Balancing privacy rights with discovery obligations
- Global forensic standards
- Defensible documentation and regulatory oversight
- Quiz
3 – Forensic Collection & Preservation
- Integrity, authenticity and ACPO principles
- Evidence acquisition
- Cloud and mobile-device collection
- Preserving email and collaboration data
- Legal holds, preservation notices and forensic readiness
- Hashing, anti-tampering and chain of custody
- Quiz
4 – Forensic Data Analysis & Reconstruction
- Timeline analysis and reconstruction
- Logs, file metadata and system artifacts
- Reconstructing communications
- Data correlation and anomaly detection
- Keyword searching and filtering
- Forensic reporting
- Quiz
5 – eDiscovery Processing, Review & Production
- The eDiscovery pipeline
- Early Case Assessment
- Advanced search methodologies and query languages
- Review workflows
- Managing the review process
- Production formats, load files and final output
- Quiz
6 – Integrating Forensics with eDiscovery
- Forensic soundness in eDiscovery workflows
- Data mapping from collection to review
- Using forensic artifacts to strengthen investigations
- Aligning legal holds with forensic preservation
- End-to-end defensible workflow
- Metadata integrity and cross-platform correlation
- Quiz
7 – AI, Automation & The Future
- AI and machine-learning fundamentals
- Automating forensic tasks
- AI in eDiscovery
- Advanced evidence mining with Generative AI
- Managing AI risk
- Future of automation
- Quiz
8 – Ethics, Defensibility & Expert Testimony
- Ethical obligations and professional conduct
- Ensuring defensibility
- Identifying and mitigating investigator bias
- Expert-witness reports
- Courtroom testimony
- Common pitfalls leading to evidence exclusion
- Quiz
Ready to start the CeFDE training course?
Course fee: $149 • Self-paced online eCourseware