Certificate in Cybersecurity, Data Protection and Digital Forensics The Chang School Of Continuing Education At Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Cyber threats are an ever-growing issue for organizations. Our Certificate in Cybersecurity, Data Protection, and Digital Forensics for International Students is designed to give you the skills and experience you need to succeed as a cybersecurity expert in the Canadian market. This certificate goes beyond the basics and gives you the edge you need in a competitive field. Our program is fully aligned with the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam and its eight cybersecurity domains, helping boost your chances of securing employment. Our cybersecurity courses offer hands-on cybersecurity experience with safeguarding data and leading industry tools to help you enter and excel in Canada’s cybersecurity field. You’ll gain expertise in penetration testing, network assessment and protection, intrusion detection, and encryption and decryption methods, along with mastering the basics of forensics analysis.

Through virtual labs and real-world projects, you’ll develop your technical investigative skills, learn to identify and close security vulnerabilities, and practice collecting evidence after a cybersecurity incident.

So, are you ready to start an exciting career in cybersecurity? We’re here to help you make it happen, every step of the way.

Is our program right for you?
The Cybersecurity, Data Protection and Digital Forensics certificate is a great way to kickstart your career if:

• You’re an offshore or on-shore international student with some post-secondary experience or an undergraduate degree
• You prefer a program that allows you to study full-time and work part-time simultaneously

What will you learn?
In our Cybersecurity, Data Protection and Digital Forensics program, you’ll learn to:

• Extract evidence using investigative protocols and report on a variety of complex issues that may arise in enterprise information systems, like:
  • Ransomware
  • Social engineering and AI fraud
  • Network and computer-hacking
  • Cyber extortion
  • Organized cybercrime
  • Cyber-espionage detection
• Understand privacy and security protocols in compliance with complex legal and regulatory parameters
• Apply best-in-kind cybersecurity technical practices to real-world problems, like:
  • White- and black-box penetration-testing
  • System- and network-vulnerability identification
  • Security-weakness remediation
• Manage and evaluate information security and data protection within the greater organizational governance structure
• Understand AI Security, Cloud Security Cyber Secure Coding, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and to prevent and mitigate AI fraud threats, proprietary IP attacks, and data leaks

You’ll also learn how to use these tools:

• Data analytics fundamentals of data types and structures, data manipulation and cleaning, statistical analysis, data visualization, machine learning techniques, and programming languages for querying data
  • Penetration testing
  • Kali Linux, Metasploit
• Network assessment and protection
  • Wireshark, Nmap, Ncrack, Nessus, hping3
• WebGoat
• Online virus scanners
• Intrusion detection
  • iptables
  • Snort
• Encryption and decryption methods
  • Certificate authority, digital signatures, and digital watermarking
  • Hash functions
  • CrypTool, S-Tools
• Forensics analysis
  • Autopsy
  • Honeypots
  • FTK Imager
  • Mobile: iPhone Analyzer