2021-2022 Undergraduate Bulletin

SEC 217 Cybercrime Investigations

3 hours

This course provides a comprehensive analysis of national and international public and private cybercrime investigations, looking in particular at: the manner in which these investigations are conducted, digital evidence, rules of evidence, and the legal admissibility of digital evidence. This emphasis of this course is on the investigation of crimes involving the Internet, computers, and related technology, including network, email, social media, cloud, mobile device, gaming console, and Internet of things forensics. Special attention will be paid to the challenges private security professionals and criminal justice agents face in the detection, investigation, prosecution and prevention of cybercrime committed on the visible web and Darknet, and the measures needed to overcome these challenges.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENG 101, SEC 107