FORENSICS AND COMPLIANCE AUDITING CYBERSECURITY

This course provides blended knowledge and hands-on learning to conduct effective forensic and compliance audits to improve the cybersecurity approach in organizations, including the ones managing critical infrastructures. This course also provides training and techniques to reduce risks and impact of threats by identifying, extracting, and analysing evidence and non-compliant events to report findings technically and scientifically.

Learning outcomes:

This course provides forensics and compliance academic background and guidance with hands-on practical activities to develop skills to conduct forensic investigations and successful audits. The course covers the regulatory, standards, and policy practices to develop and implement effective auditing compliance programs while keeping confidentiality, reliability and integrity of the processed data.

The experimental work offers the opportunity to develop the skills and apply in practice the acquired knowledge and scientifically communicate the results. Students will understand forensics and compliance auditing frameworks for cybersecurity and acquire the knowledge and skills to scientifically communicate the results of experimental work.

Objectives:

  • Understand the foundations of forensic and compliance auditing cybersecurity.
  • DeveIop and conduct effective forensics and compliance auditing actions.
  • AppIy appropriate forensic techniques for gathering and analyzing evidence.
  • ldentify and detect non-compliant events with cybersecurity frameworks, standards, regulations, and internal policies.
  • Report findings from forensics and compliance auditing actions in a technical and scientific manner.

Teaching language: English.

1. Mode of Delivery: online live – online materials provided by the teachers in EUNICE Moodle Platform.

2. Learning Resources and Tools: Slides, Papers, Books, Regulations, Standards, Security Frameworks, Python, LateX, Linux and Windows Oss.

Units:

  • Introduction to Forensics and Compliance Auditing
  • Research
  • Threats detection
  • Forensic Investigation
  • Compliance Auditing

Timetable:

Periodicity: Week, Friday 15h (CET) – 2,5 hours/session

  • EUNICE student: enrolled as a student (Masters) in one of the universities of EUNICE European University consortium (check universities here).
  • B2 level of English or French.

Study Level: Master

  • Submit your application via the button ‘Apply Now’.
  • Please keep in mind that the number of participants could be limited for each course. Application does not guarantee enrolment in the course.
  • The course participants will be selected based on criteria specified in the study guide.
  • Your home university will inform you whether you have been accepted and provide further information about the next steps.

Specific instructions in some universities:

  • BTU students: for questions about enrolment and recognition at your university, you can visit this website.
  • UPHF students: make sure to ask the approval of your director of studies (responsable pédagogique) before applying. For any question, you can contact the EUNICE office: eunice@uphf.fr
  • UoP students: for questions about enrolment and recognition please consult  the responsible person at your university (Director of Studies or ECTS coordinator) or contact eunice@go.uop.gr
  • IPV students: for questions about enrolment and recognition, please contact rafaela.silva@sc.ipv.pt

Any questions about enrolment or credit recognition?  Contact your EUNICE courses coordinator.

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Foundations on forensics and compliance auditing to identify and extract evidence and non-compliant events to be reported.

Study Level
Master
Applications deadline
15 January 2025
Dates
7 March - 9 May, 2025

Periodicity: Week, Friday 15h (CET) – 2,5 hours/session

Accreditation
3 ECTS
Mode
Online live