Cyber forensics is studied in the subject of digital forensics. It concerns the legal evidence lying in the digital storage media and in cyberspace. Since the advent of the digital age, the need for cyber experts has grown exponentially. It is largely due to the internet explosion in India recently witnessed due to e-governance, e-banking, e-commerce and social media.
The demand for the course of B. tech. Computer science with cyber security and forensics was triggered by continuous attacks on social media and their abuse. So there was a cyber-terrorism threat to our country’s cybersecurity that it was not adequately prepared for. After this threat started affecting national security, the Indian government passed a resolution to set up its cyber protection architecture at national level.
Cyber security policy for data protection
The directive was proposed in 2011 to protect national assets from cyberattacks and protect citizens’ information. It also aimed to strengthen the team dealing with Computer Emergency Response to study, protect and spread awareness of the problem, as well as to promote open standards. It is estimated that by the end of 2015 India will need around five lakh experts to manage its cyber security and support the growing internet economy.
Opportunities with different industries
The financial sector itself will hire about two lakh employees, including those who work for oil and gas, energy, utilities, airlines, telecoms and the government. Therefore, the government looks forward to hiring such professionals for its e-governance and law and order departments. The massive hiring is expected as the Indian information security market continues to show an upward trend despite an economic slowdown.
Topics to Cover
Therefore, a B. Tech. Computer Science degree with specialization in Cybersecurity and Forensics will soon be adopted by many universities in India. Needing an information protection curriculum, department heads rolled out the course in their respective institutions to fill the talent needs. They began teaching subjects such as environmental studies, introduction to open source software and open standards, HTML programming, mathematical logic, data structures using C, and technical graphics.
In addition, articles such as computer system architecture, fundamentals of information security, design and analysis of algorithms, database management systems, and data modeling with electronic devices and circuits were added. Subjects such as microprocessors and embedded systems, fundamentals of storage technology, philosophy of science and theory of automata and computation were also taught within the framework of this discipline.
More topics were added to this discipline as they were relevant in the modern virtual world.
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