Cybercrime Analysis

This graduate-level certificate is open to students who are interested in pursuing rewarding careers in the growing fields of cybercrime analysis in business, law enforcement and security sectors.

Cybercrime analysts are responsible for the management of complex data including open source data, individual and organized hackers, and require practical and theoretical abilities to gather, critically assess, and creatively synthesize the data, with the end goal of applying the findings to a variety of contexts.

The program provides the specialized theoretical foundation and applied skills needed to function successfully as a cybercrime analyst. Graduates of this program can apply their knowledge and skills to conduct cybercrime analysis to address a wide range of issues and challenges. In law enforcement, analysts can work with data related to hate crimes, and organized crime. Those employed in international organizations can use their skills to analyze date related to prisoner abuse monitoring, transgressions against international treaties, or conflict and early warning systems. In the business sector, graduates can apply their education to address commercial and financial cybercrime and corporate security concerns.

What You’ll Learn

• Apply analytical skills, critical analysis, and an interdisciplinary mindset to the process of identifying, analyzing, and addressing unstructured data and cyber threats within a variety of security and criminal contexts such as finance and banking, crime and organized crime, and national security, safety and terrorism.
• Identify and apply a comprehensive understanding of legal, ethical, political, and cultural issues of collecting and managing intelligence using overt/covert operations.
• Demonstrate an ability to develop practicable processes for gathering intelligence from overt/covert operations and encrypted information.
• Demonstrate and apply a broad understanding of the intelligence cycle and the ability to categorize the various types of intelligence and cybercrime data.
• Collect and compose reports based on extensive research using print and open source materials that require collection, correlation, and analysis.
• Justify and evaluate decisions based on analytical ability, critical thinking and understanding of situational complexity and historical perspective.
• Articulate a systematic understanding of knowledge, and a critical awareness of cybercrime analysis involving cyber intelligence.
• Apply a comprehensive understanding of legal, ethical, political, cultural issues of collecting and managing intelligence using overt/covert operations.
• Demonstrate an ability to develop practicable processes for gathering intelligence from overt/covert operations and encrypted information.