Career in Cyber Forensic

What:  Cyber forensics can be defined as the process of extracting information and data from computer storage media and guaranteeing its accuracy and reliability. The challenge of course is actually finding this data, collecting it, preserving it, and presenting it in a manner acceptable in a court of law.

Electronic evidence is fragile and can be easily modified. Additionally, cyber thieves, criminals, dishonest and even honest employees hide, wipe, disguise, cloak, encrypt and destroy evidence from storage media using a variety of freeware, shareware and commercially available utility programs.

A global dependency on technology combined with the expanding presence of the Internet as a key and strategic resource requires that corporate assets are well protected and safeguarded. When those assets come under attack, or are misused, info security professionals must be able to gather electronic evidence of such misuse and utilize that evidence to bring to justice those who misuse the technology.

How: Cyber forensics, while firmly established as both an art as well as a science, is at its infancy. With technology evolving, mutating, and changing at such a rapid pace, the rules governing the application of cyber forensics to the fields of auditing, security, and law enforcement are changing as well. Almost daily, new techniques and procedures, are designed to provide info security professionals a better means of finding electronic evidence, collecting it, preserving it, and presenting it to client management for potential use in the prosecution of cyber criminals.

The anonymity provide by the Internet, and the ability for society’s criminal element, to use information technology as a tool for social and financial discourse, mandates that those professionals charged with the responsibility of protecting critical infrastructure resources, have the tools to do so.

As technologies advance, so does the area of digital forensics. Many major companies have introduced cyber security solution divisions, where these professionals can easily find jobs. A fresher could join as an information security engineer and work his way up to become a principal or lead consultant. Depending on your skills, you could even move into management and head particular practices. With experience, you could also work as an advisor in government departments of various ministries or as security auditors and network administrators in technology firms.

Eligibility: –

1. You should have Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Computer Applications / Information Technology
2. B.Sc. in Mathematics/ Physics/ Statistics /Electronic Science (or) B.E./B.Tech or equivalent from any recognised university for seeking admission in M.Sc. course in Cyber forensics.

Where: Course in Cyber Crime Laws (CCCL) is a Course meant to provide an in-depth understanding of Cyber Crime Laws as applicable in India. Eligibility For this course is graduation in any discipline from any recognised university. Course is made available for under graduate students in Law and Technology as well.