The U.S. Department of Labor awarded Northeast State Community College a $1.6 million Strengthening Community Colleges grant to promote student success in underrepresented student populations and enhance cybersecurity education in Computer Information Technology (CIT) programs.
Northeast State was one of just 13 colleges and universities to receive funding from the department’s Employment and Training Administration. The project is located in the Technical Education Complex on our campus in Blountville. The grant’s timeline ran from Oct. 1, 2022, to Sept. 20, 2026. Lab Microsoft Word documents developed for this grant are available for download below.
Digital Forensics Essentials Labs
- Lab 1: Establishing a Forensic Case Evidence Handling Hashing
- Lab 2: Hard Disk Structures & File System Analysis (FAT32 vs. exFAT)
- Lab 3: Forensic Data Acquisition & Duplication
- Lab 4: Defeating Anti-Forensics: Mismatched Extensions, Hidden Data & Timestamp Analysis
- Lab 5: Windows Forensics: Registry Analysis, USB History & User Activity Timeline
- Lab 6: Linux Forensics: Investigating a Compromised System
- Lab 7: Network & Internet Artifact Forensics
- Lab 8: Investigating Web Attacks via Server Log Analysis
- Lab 9: Dark Web Artifact Recovery & Email Crime Investigation
- Lab 10: Malware Forensics: Hash-Based Triage & Safe Static Indicators
Security Operations Labs
- Lab 1: Windows Event Viewer & Security Log Analysis
- Lab 2: Sysinternals Suite — Process & Autoruns Investigation
- Lab 3: Network & Host Discovery with Nmap
- Lab 4: Packet Capture & Traffic Analysis with Wireshark
- Lab 5: Vulnerability Scanning & Triage with Nessus Essentials
- Lab 6: Threat Hunting with PowerShell & Windows Defender
- Lab 7: SIEM Fundamentals — Log Ingestion & Correlation with Splunk
- Lab 8: Digital Forensics Fundamentals — Imaging & Analysis with FTK Imager and Autopsy
- Lab 9: Phishing Email & Header Analysis / IOC Extraction
- Lab 10: Vulnerability & Incident Report Writing (Executive Summary)
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