Digital Forensics- Certificate

The Certificate in Digital Forensics is designed to prepare degree and non-degree seeking students with necessary skills in Digital Forensics. This 18-credit Certificate will take students through foundational cybersecurity concepts, laws, and policies, as well as the workings of cybercrimes, threat and defense mechanisms of modern operating systems, ethical hacking processes and underlying concepts of computer forensic investigations including preservation, extraction, analysis and investigation of digital evidence from individual computers, network components and servers, and mobile devices. Additionally, students will learn necessary programming skills using modern programming languages. Upon successful completion, students will be able to work as digital forensics experts, security analysts, penetration testers or ethical hackers for private or government organizations.

Requirements

18 credits comprised of

CYB 1200FOUNDATIONS OF CYBERSECURITY

3

CIT 2300NETWORKING

3

CIT 2550/CSC 2550INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING

3

CYB 4540OPERATING SYSTEMS AND SECURITY

3

CYB 4670DIGITAL FORENSICS

3

CYB 4700ETHICAL HACKING

3

Prerequisites

This certificate is offered to current traditional MSMC students who complete the required 18 credits of courses in this program.