Advanced Digital Forensics (certificate)

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Official Title of Certificate: Advanced Digital Forensics, Certificate

Award: Certificate

Code: CRT.CIS.DIGIT-FRSC-A

Total Credit Hours: 25

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Purpose: Perform forensic investigations, incident handling, and conduct incident investigations. Gain the knowledge and skills necessary to execute forensic investigations of networks, hosts, and mobile devices, including the use of standard computer forensics and evidence handling techniques to collect, process, review, analyze and produce electronic evidence. Successful completion of the courses in this certificate prepares a student for the Cyber Incident Responder exam sponsored by the Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3), National Centers of Digital Forensics Academic Excellence (CDFAE) program.

Range of Occupations

Computer forensics technician
Digital forensics specialist
Digital forensics investigator
Forensic support specialist
Incident response analyst

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Certificate Graduation Requirements

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Certificate Requirements: 25 credits

CJS 111 - Introduction to Criminal Justice 3 credit hours
CTS 107 - Cyber Essentials 3 credit hours
CTS 110 - Network Essentials 4 credit hours
CTS 120 - Introduction to UNIX/LINUX 4 credit hours
CTS 170 - Digital Forensics 1 3 credit hours
CTS 207 - Digital Forensics 2 4 credit hours
CTS 209 - Digital Forensics 3 4 credit hours

Program Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:

1. Plan and perform digital forensic investigations including preservation, handling, analysis, and documentation of evidence

2. Use industry standard tools to access digital evidence and conduct forensic analysis

3. Relate the functionality of operating systems and networks to digital evidence

4. Apply Constitutional and case law to digital forensics investigations

5. Effectively communicate technical information

This program aligns with all the college’s core competencies.

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