Courses on Cyber Forensics

PUNE: Kerala chief minister Oomen Chandy launched the maiden courses on Cyber forensics by Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) at Thiruvananthpuram.





The objective of the national launch of the cyber forensics course is to meet the requirements of trained manpower in cyber forensics as well as to assist law enforcement agencies and the judiciary to follow up on the cyber crime investigation.





According to the press release, to begin with C-DAC will offer two courses — post graduate diploma in cyber forensics and the certificate course in cyber forensics (part time) The courses are targeted towards practicing law enforcement agencies, law graduates keen on cyber forensics as their specialization and forensics science graduates interested in pursuing a career as cyber forensics consultants.





The courses on cyber forensics merges the capabilities of the software training and development center (STDC) the educational wing of C-DAC Thiruvananthpuram and the unit of the Technical Resource Center for Cyber Forensics (TRCCF) at C-DAC. TRCCF also conducted cyber forensics analysis of digital evidence in a number of cases. C-DAC also has plans to offer short-term courses, certificate courses and diploma courses in cyber forensics.