University of Madras to provide Master's programme in Cyber Science from the next academic year

Updated on: Monday, February 25, 2013

At a time when the entire country is facing dearth of expertise in the domain of Cyber Science, University of Madras plans to provide Master's programme in Cyber Science from the next academic year.

To be offered through the Centre for Cyber Forensic and Information Security at the University that will have modern equipment, including mobile tracer devices to train students.

Initially, the programme will accommodate 20 students.

According to Prof.R.Thilagaraj, Head of the Criminology Department says that majority of the cyber crimes reported remain un-investigated due to lack of expertise and infrastructure.

The criminology department at the University of Madras now trains professionals who handle cyber crime cases.

As per latest data, investigation agencies in Chennai and Bangalore, where the incidence of cyber crime is growing, have not been able to trace the culprits in most cases due to a lack of expertise, revealed the Department Head.

Speaking in a seminar at the University of Madras recently, erstwhile CBI director R K Raghavan told cyber crime that lack of expertise and infrastructure limited the success rate of cyber crime investigations to less than 50% in the country.

Cyber Science is also offered at SRM University in Chennai, Amritha School of Engineering in Coimbatore, National Institute of Technology in Kozhikode and JSS Academy of Technical Education in Bangalore.

Furthermore, UGC has recently issued notification to colleges asking them to introduce Cyber and Information Security as a subject to students of various courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate level from the coming academic year.

University of Madras to provide Master's programme in Cyber Science from the next academic year

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