Dec 05, 2024  
Baltimore City Community College’s 2024 - 2025 Catalog 
    
Baltimore City Community College’s 2024 - 2025 Catalog

Cybersecurity Digital Forensics, AAS


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The degree program in Cybersecurity Digital Forensics at BCCC emphasizes content to perform forensic investigations, incident handling, and conduct incident investigations. Students will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to execute forensic investigations of networks, hosts, and mobile devices. This includes using standard computer forensics and evidence handling techniques to collect, process, review, analyze and produce electronic evidence. Successful completion of the courses in this certificate prepares a student for the Cyber Incident Responder exam sponsored by the Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3), National Centers of Digital Forensics Academic Excellence (CDFAE) program. Students also have the option to complete exam preparations leading to a variety of related certifications.

Program Learning Outcomes


  • Identify and analyze  risks, threats, and vulnerabilities associated with digital tools, used to monitor digital components connected to computer networks.

  • Explain various operating systems; operating system roles; how operating systems manage computer hardware, software, and subsystems; and describe memory allocation schemes and paging

  • Performing Static Analysis on a Suspicious File, System Behavior Analysis, and Forensic Examination of a Suspicious Microsoft Office Document.

  • Implement Role-Based Access Controls in Windows Admin Center (WAC) and Implement Password Policies using Windows Group Policy. Implement IDS/IPS functionality, and secure IoT devices on the network using tools such as Disk Encryption, MD5 Hashes, TLS/SSL

  • Investigate various Network Attacks using Kiwi Log Viewer and Wireshark tools.

  • Utilize forensic investigative strategies and tools to locate and retrieve electronic data and history on the network and digital devices; retrieve volatile and non-volatile information, deleted files, and partition data

Semester Credits 15


Semester Credits 15


Semester Credits 16


Semester Credits 14


Program Total 60


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