The Center for Cybercrime Studies received John Jay College’s first earmark to create a Cybercrime Investigations Laboratory and Research Facility. The funding was just for a year to set up the facility. To maintain its use for courses and trainings in the upcoming academic year, the Center requires funding to purchase digital forensics tools for use in classrooms and student training, as well as funding for a part-time lab assistant to assist with setting up classrooms and associated spaces for courses and trainings, provide and monitor access to the tools, and offer technical assistance, among other responsibilities.
Please Note: The Center for Cybercrime Studies, which is a John Jay College Research Center, was not listed in the drop-down menu for selection of a department.
John Jay students enrolled in CSCI, FCM, and ICJ courses that are held at the Cybercrime Investigations Laboratory and Research Facility at the Center for Cybercrime Studies will have access to the tools. Students from programs in those majors and outside of those majors will have access to these resources. We expect at least 100 students to participate in the courses and trainings offered in the Cybercrime Investigations Laboratory and Research Facility at the Center for Cybercrime Studies.
Center for Cybercrime Studies, Westport North
The courses and trainings run in the lab will prepare our diverse student population for a variety of counter cybercrime and cybersecurity-related careers and provide these students with a competitive advantage in both technical and non-technical careers, making them a more marketable employee in the workforce.
Maintenance will not be required. The Director for the Center for Cybercrime Studies, Dr. Marie-Helen Maras, will supervise access and use of the tools.
The Director for the Center for Cybercrime Studies, Dr. Marie-Helen Maras, will oversee and supervise access and use of the tools.
The proposed work is in line with the goal of the Strategic Plan to “create and advance knowledge in support of justice education, public awareness, and civic engagement.” In line with this goal are “faculty efforts to innovate justice curricula and pedagogies,” which is what the use of these tools in courses and training offered at the Center are designed to do.