Through a grant from the National Security Agency, and as a part of a consortium led by University of Colorado Cold Springs, the University at Albany Massry School of Business is providing scholarships to students enrolled in the MS Digital Forensics program, and is training faculty new to cybersecurity in the subject matter and then offering teaching workshops to help faculty learn to teach the material.
Scholarship
Students who begin the MS in Digital Forensics in the fall of 2021 will be eligible for a $5,000 scholarship, nearly half the cost of the master’s program, through a grant that Massry School of Business Professor Sanjay Goel received from the National Security Agency. As part of their studies, MS Digital Forensics students also earn the Graduate Certificate in Information Security.
This competitive scholarship will be awarded to up to 20 full-time students admitted into the master’s degree program in the fall of 2021. All students who submit a scholarship application and successfully complete five program courses with an overall GPA of 3.0/B or higher will be considered. Recipients will be selected prior to the start of the program, contingent on meeting the grade requirement. A review committee will evaluate applications based on academic merit and community engagement with some scholarships reserved for underserved minorities and veterans. Scholarship winners will be announced in January 2022.
Those interested in the scholarship will apply for the MS in Digital Forensics and submit an additional one-page essay which discusses past accomplishments, motivation for the MS program and community service activities. Email Professor Sanjay Goel for more information.
Faculty Training
Through a grant from the National Security Agency, and as a part of a consortium led by University of Colorado Cold Springs, the University at Albany Massry School of Business is offering two courses to train faculty new to cybersecurity in the subject matter and then offering teaching workshops to help faculty learn to teach the material.
The teaching workshops will discuss both pedagogic techniques as well as the materials that have been provided to teach (presentations, videos, and assignments) The courses will be taught online in a hybrid format with 15 hours of synchronous training over three consecutive days and five weeks of asynchronous course work. There will be no exam in the course and course is not graded.
The teaching workshops will be taught with ten hours of synchronous teaching and two weeks of asynchronous learning with online materials.
Two courses are offered: Information Security Risk Assessment and Introduction to Digital Forensics. Each course and corresponding teaching workshop will be offered three times in the next year and a half.
2021-2022 schedules for classes and workshops
Introduction to Digital Forensics
This course will cover the fundamentals of responding to incident scenes and digital forensics processes involving the identification, collection, examination and presentation of digital evidence (devices and data). Students will utilize forensic tools to collect and examine digital evidence using forensically sound techniques and legally acceptable standards. Student will engage in the reporting of the completed processes associated with the incident response and forensic examination of digital evidence through the use of standardized worksheets and reports. This course will use a combination of instructor presentations and tutorials, supplemented with related publications and student exercises using forensic tools and techniques.
Digital Forensics Course Materials (For course registrants only)
Digital Forensics Teaching Workshop Materials (For course registrants only)
Information Security Risk Analysis
This course will cover the fundamentals of risk analysis as well as how it applies to cyber security. Students will learn cybersecurity risk assessment process including identifying assets and threats and selecting mitigating controls. Classes of threats and controls will be discussed as a part of the curriculum. Students will learn about both quantitative and qualitative risk analysis techniques and where each of them is applicable. The course also covers standards that are currently being widely used in the industry such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the NIST 800-52 Control Baselines. The course will use a combination of power point presentations, videos, and cases to explain the materials.
Information Security Risk Analysis Course Materials (For course registrants only)
Information Security Risk Analysis Teaching Workshop Materials (For course registrants only)