PGCert in Security Science and Technology

This postgraduate certificate in cyber threat research trains students in the methods used to investigate cybercrime. Instructors come from policing, accounting and private industry. Participants learn to recognize cyber dangers, trace the people behind them and carry out investigations online. Topics include encryption, obfuscation, virtual currency, a first look at the dark web, ways to hide one's own identity, and intelligence methods paired with data analysis. The certificate grew out of a partnership between Carlow's fraud and forensics master's program and a national cyber-forensics alliance. It closes with a brief onsite residency at the alliance in Pittsburgh, and the three courses can be finished in as little as five months. The sequence is short, which makes it practical for people already working in a related field. Cyber topics include encryption and virtual currency.