Digital Forensics Certificate of Graduate Studies
The study of digital forensics encompasses an array of skills including acquiring, extracting, and analyzing data that is necessary for criminal investigation and civil litigation. In addition to criminal and civil investigations, forensic science plays a major role in intelligence and counterterrorism matters..
The Certificate of Graduate Studies in Digital Forensics will enable students to satisfy all of the following concentration objectives:
- To acquaint students with computer network architecture, proper evidence collection and storage, and federal rules and criminal codes;
- To understand how foreign state sponsored threat actors target certain institutions and companies;
- To introduce students to network traffic analysis, web log analysis, malware reverse engineering, and cyber infrastructure analysis;
- To instruct each student on how to navigate networks, servers, and mass data as well as how to utilize common digital forensic tools.