Program Outcomes

The purpose of the certificate program is to:

1. Provide further education to computer professionals with technical undergraduate degrees to enable them to track and protect institutional computer and cyber crime. This knowledge in corporate settings should lead to better protection of company computer assets, company intellectual property, and company data and financial assets. These professionals should be able to support law enforcement in detection and prosecution cyber-crime when needed.


2. Provide further education for those technical individuals who work in law-enforcement. It is expected that these would be highly technical people with bachelor's degrees in either computer science, computer engineering, or software engineering.

Specific program outcomes are:

• Improve abilities to protect software systems and detect intrusion.


• Enable IT employees to become more vigilant in detecting potential security threats in software systems in use or under development.
  
• Improve the ability to manage IT departments securely.


• Improve the ability to prosecute cyber-crime both internally and via the judicial system.


• Improve the ability to collect unimpeachable evidence of cyber-crime for use by industry and law enforcement.