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