UCD Centre for Cybersecurity & Cybercrime Investigation University College Dublin School of Computer Science
University College Dublin Established 1834 Ireland's largest university - 33,460 students, 131 nationalities #1 in Ireland for 40 subjects Top 1% educational institutions worldwide
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UCD Centre for Cybersecurity & Cybercrime Investigation Established in 2006, 12 staff - 100% self-funded Purpose To help Law Enforcement, Government and Industry in the fight against cybercrime through... Research, consultancy, software development, training & education Working with Our community of 2000+ students & graduates, partners, volunteers and friends in 50+ countries with other stakeholders including banks, government, etc.
Training EU-funded capacity-building projects First Responder Cybercrime Courses in Lithuania Curriculum development for Romanian and Bulgarian police Trainer Development Programme Build your own Forensics Lab Python Programming for Investigators Linux for Investigators Databases Open Source IT Forensics Cybercrime / Basic Digital Forensics for Saudi police http://www.ucd.ie/cci Nov 2015
ECTEG - European Cybercrime Training and Education Group ecteg.eu Courses in Forensic Scripting, Live Data Forensics, Malware Investigations
Current projects Purpose Open source, free, reliable forensic tools for investigating cybercrimes Working with... A community of skilled developers and users: 25 volunteer LE developers from cybercrime units from 12 countries in Europe Funded by Prevention of and Fight against Crime Programme of the EU Commission DG Home 2013-2018 Project managed by UCD Tools distributed by Europol EC3 via SPACE Initial themes: Forensic Process Management Artifact Analysis Live Data Forensics Enhanced Previewing
other UCD CCI projects Banking & Payments Federation Ireland Collaboration and information Sharing Forum Incident Management System Table Top Exercises Research Briefings Cyber Defence Alliance (CDA) Collaboration between Lloyds, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Santander UK, Standard Chartered, Bank of Ireland, Allied Irish Banks, Metro Bank. Each bank seconds staff to work at the venture alongside law enforcement officers. Sharing threat intelligence, fraud, money laundering and tracing international transactions. Building case info for law enforcement to investigate, arrest and convict cyber criminals. Expert advice to Irish Government Irish Dept of Communications regarding establishment of National Cyber Security Centre
MSc in Forensic Computing & Cybercrime Investigation Law enforcement only Fees only 9,180 Designed for investigators 900 students/graduates Expert guest lecturers from LE 62 countries Very practical Wide choice of modules BSc not needed 12 years Distance-learning International network
MSc in Forensic Computing & Cybercrime Investigation new modules on financial crime for 2016 2014 - new US exam centre 2012 - new Dutch exam centre first student Detective Inspector Paul Gillen new modules on database forensics and advanced malware investigations
Global law enforcement network
927 students and graduates worldwide
German students Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA)) 3 BWI Systeme GmbH Kriminalpolizei Bremen 3 Police, Lower Saxony LAFP Polizei NRW 2 West Hessen Politzei 2 German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) 2 Ministry of Home Affairs and Local Government of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Finance of Bremen German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) German Federal Police BPOL (Bundespolizei) 4 Polizei North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) 3 Bavarian State Police (Polizei Bayern) Landeskriminalamt BLKA Polizeiinspektion Northeim / Osterode Polizeipraesidium Koblenz European Central Bank Deutsche Cyber Sicherheitsorganisation DCSO 2 ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH
Online study with exams in Ireland 2 core modules 12 module options Computer Forensics Programming for Investigators Network Investigations Advanced Computer Forensics Mobile Devices Investigation Malware Investigations Optional research modules Case Study Advanced Malware Analysis Research Project Live Data Forensics Linux for Investigators Advanced Scripting Limited to Irish police Financial Fraud Investigation * VoIP and Wireless Investigations Online Fraud Investigations for Irish Law Enforcement * OSINT Collection & Analysis Legislation * Online Child Abuse Investigations Financial Investigation Techniques - Following the Money Data and database forensics
Research topics Financial Fraud Investigation Social Media, Instant Message, VoIP analysis & investigation P2P Network analysis Mobile Device Forensics Cloud computing forensics Vehicle Forensics Digital Forensic Tools and Evaluation OSINT, Dark Web, Privacy, Malware, Databases 16
MSc in Digital Investigation & Forensic Computing Civilian programme For computer science, IT graduates Full time or Part time using distance-learning
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