Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity

The CAE designation, jointly sponsored by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, recognizes that Bloomsburg’s digital forensics program has met stringent criteria in regard to its digital forensics curriculum, faculty and research, as well as demonstrated an institution-wide commitment to information assurance practices and cyber defense education.

For details on the courses required, please see the Center of Academic Excellence. Students attending CAE-designated schools become eligible to apply for related scholarships and grants through the Federal Cyber Service Scholarship for Service Program.

CU has been designated a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security.

It is one of the top Digital Forensics and Cyber-Security Programs in the country. Classrooms and labs have professional digital forensics software and hardware. Courses cover all aspects of digital forensics and security.

Commonwealth University has five excellent and well-known faculty members dedicated to teaching courses in this field of study. They come with practical experience and deep knowledge in digital forensics, criminal investigations, network security and forensics, system security, and penetration testing.

Digital Forensics graduates have an extremely high placement rate.  They work in law enforcement, government agencies, and the corporate world.  Graduates work at many major defense contractors, such as General Dynamics, Lockheed, Booz Allen Hamilton, Mantech, Leidos, SAIC, Bechtel, Textron, and CACI.  Corporate employees include CrowdStrike, Dell SecureWorks, Pfizer, Airbnb, Home Shopping Network, FireEye, Mandiant, Verizon, LDiscovery, KPMG, Deloitte, Ernst and Young, and Epiq Systems.

Graduates work at governmental agencies concerned with national security such as the National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade.

Law enforcement employers include local law enforcement, sheriff’s departments, district attorney’s offices, attorney general’s offices, and state police agencies.

If you have an active security clearance, you will be appealing to many of the companies and agencies listed above.  There are separate job fairs just for veterans and just for people with security clearances.  If you have an active clearance, there is a 100% placement rate.

Our graduates do important work such as: Investigating hacking from foreign nations against the US, analyzing terrorist hard disks and other media for the war on terror, and offensively hacking foreign governments to protect the US.

• Advanced Intelligence, LLC 
• Berks County District Attorney’s Office 
• Boston Police Department 
• Dauphin County Criminal Investigation Division 
• Delaware County Office of DA 
• Deloitte 
• Delsite Consulting 
• Department of Homeland Security 
• Evangelical Community Hospital 
• Federal Bureau of Investigation Cyber Division 
• FireEye 
• Geisinger Medical Center 
• JPMorgan Chase 
• LDiscovery 
• Lincoln Leadership Academy Charter School 
• Lockheed Martin 
• Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office 
• National Security Agency 
• National Security Consulting & Investigating PLLC 
• nDepth Security LLC 
• OpenText 
• Pennsylvania Department of Corrections 
• PPL Electric Utilities 
• Revolutionary Security 
• Select Medical 
• SUMURI LLC 
• The Crypsis Group 
• The Washington Center 
• T-Mobile 
• Top Notch Distributors, Inc. 
• Underwriters Laboratories 
• US Army 
• US Bank 
• USN Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division 
• Verizon 
• VMWare 
• Weis Markets