Digital Forensics At a Glance

What to know more, come for the TP Open House from 6 to 8 Jan 2011.

Walk the Journey with us - Discovering the Diploma in Digital Forenscis T55

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Let's Do Digital Forensics

So, the news is out. TP is the first poly offering the Diploma in Digital Forensics in respond to the rapidly increasing needs to train professionals to fight cyber crimes, frauds, data theft. And yes, that includes crimes which have been committed leaving digital clues found in computers and digital devices. The diploma is also called DFS in short, Defnitely First in Singapore !

We, the ones with the curious minds will lead you to follow the digital traces and uncover more about DFS. What better way to do this than, well, searching for digital clues in the Internet.

Exhibit 1: The Letters That Follow.....

- GIAC GCFA, GREM, GCIH, RHCE, CISSP, CISA, MCSE, CCNP, Ence, CCNA Security……

Clues: We searched the profiles of the lecturers, their facebooks, blogs, diploma website and noticed that they have a list of letters just like the above or logos like these following their names. What are these?



Analyse: Google and we found that these are industry’s recognition of the competencies demonstrated by a professional in a particular field. So, GIAC is Global Information Assurance Certification, GCFA is GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst, GREM is GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware. CISA is Certified Information System Auditor, and so the list goes on…

Conclusion: Be therefore assured that students will be trained by highly qualified and experienced lectures….and, students too have the opportunity to pursue some of the certifications! And some are sponsored! Great!

Exhibit 2: Papers Published like a Pro.....

Clues: We continued our search….the School of IIT website shows a photo about a lecturer – receiving an award from Spring Singapore. But wait, isn’t this the same lecturer who appeared in some other publications?




Examine: Oh…yes, found two @ http://www.itsc.org.sg/pdf/synthesis09/Two_Face_Biometric.pdf
 http://lk.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/openjive/photos/CDSTrio/gallery.jsp?page=2&image=24#gallery

Mr Lim Eyung, currently also in the Diploma in DFS, is also a Biometric expert (e.g. face, fingerprint identification and recognition) and wow, the diploma students under him too had a chance to be involved in research and had published paper, and won many competitions (heard that the team went on to win competitions at national and international level like APICTA!)

Conclusion: Excellent !! So students will get more than a diploma and be recognised in the industry even before they graduated.

Exhibit 3: News Article 1: What has IT, Psychology and Criminal Procedure got to do with one another?

Found. A digital news paper article which briefly talked about the course structure – IT, Psychology of Deviant Behaviour and Criminal Procedures.
























Analyse: Yes! Psychology is taught too to understand the motivation of criminals committing crimes, and Criminal Procedure for court of law purpose.

Successful digital forensic analysts are highly skilled IT professionals. They are passionate about IT as the bits and bytes help them to unravel the truth...

Here s why:

• They know how the files are stored so that they can retrieve deleted data
• They know where, who and when data is transferred through the network by analysing the network traffic
• They know what malware is lurking in the systems, securely encrypt, decrypt, writing programmes to help them search and scan registries, files, logs etc to uncover the truth, and in case somehow hacked into the system, they will trace the source and work to close the security loophole.

But wait, does that mean you must have good IT foundation to join this diploma? Absolutely not, check their website as IT foundation will be taught during the first year, just like any of their existing IT courses.

Conclusion: So, you learn about IT, security, forensics, psychology and criminal procedures. Comprehensive !

Exhibit 4: Listen to What Industries said....

Found ! - More online news and articles.




No doubt about it -
Conclusion:
Clear demand for Digital Forensic Professionals!
Looking Forward!

Scholarship, Internship, Mentorship - Through Our Industry Partnership for TP Digital Forensics Students

Introducing The TP ISACA Student Group ....

Do you know TP is the 4th in the world to have established the ISACA Student Group? WOW !!




Guess who is who - Friendly lectures with students (professionals to be) in the ISACA group




ISACA or Information System Audit & Control Association - A professional body with over 95,000 members worldwide. The members are IT Auditors, IT Security and Forensics Professionals from the industries. ISACA accredits some of the most reputable and highly sought after industry certifications by the employers - CISA and CISM !


So, what does TP Student Group Do?

Overseen by the Diploma in Digital Forensics, the group

• gets to participate in talks/seminars by industries to keep abreast of the latest trends in security, forensics and audit, carreer and prospects


• have a great oppornities to interact with the professionals, many are from companies of furture employers.
  
• learns to organise events to develop your leadership talent


• shares knowledge with peers through workshops

- participate in industry seminars, what better way to network and seek mentorship from your future employers!

- Let's do Forensics!

- Digital Foresnsic Seminar, Yes, we organised this!

More activities? Check it out @ http://isacasctp.wordpress.com


Scholarship...

Yes, we have scholarships for well-deserving students. In addition to TP scholarships, diploma in Digital Forensics students can also apply for the prestigious IDA Integrated Scholarship offered at the national level, or the Industry scholarships from the School of Temasek Informatics & IT.

Do you know - STEE(InfoSec), a leading company specialising in security for government and public organistaion, is offering exclusive scholarships for students studying in Digital Forensics and Cyber Security only, starting from 2011 !! Students can also look forward to internship opportunities from STEE(InfoSec) and many other industries. Great!!









STEE(InfoSec) signing an MOU with TP on providing internship and scholarships to students.

Digital Forensic Seminar @ TP

The turn-up was fantastic! The industry speakers shared their experiences in handling some of the interesting cases. The participants also went away with some good tips on the Dos an Don'ts in the Social Networking world. Here are some photos taken during the seminar





The speakers: Ian from IBM,


Chuan Wei from BT-Frontline, Wilfred from Tecbiz Frisman

The participants:

Khalid from Bowen Secondary School:

"I am interested in the course because of the career prospects it offers. Digital Forensics is an interesting area and TP is the first to offer such a course. I was deeply touched by the lecturer Ms Lock. I had written to ask her about the course and she remembered me. She encouraged me to do well for my O'levels"

Kenny from Compassvale Secondary School:

"My dad told me a story about fraud cases in a financial institution. I thought it was so real listening from the digital forensics experts. It would be really interesting to investigate such incidents"

Great attendance and networking for the seminar!

Cool Digtial Forensics Tools!