Digital forensics is a fast-growing, billion-dollar market with high long-term projected demand for trained professionals. With identity theft, insider trading, information security breaches, cyber-attacks, financial fraud, and terrorism, digital forensic analysts are tasked at understanding how to investigate incidents and track activities in the electronic domain.

We’ve designed our program to provide you with the skills necessary to use investigative procedures while applying accounting methods and financial techniques necessary to uncover, solve and document financial crimes.

The Fraud and Digital Forensics Advanced Certificate program is open to anyone with a bachelor's degree in accounting or a CPA license. Students who successfully complete all four courses in this certificate program receive an advanced Fraud and Digital Forensics Certificate from Siena College's AACSB accredited School of Business.

Courses:

  • Quantitative Methods for Data-Driven Decision Making
  • Forensic Inspection Methods 
  • Advanced Fraud and Forensics
  • Computer Auditing and IT Controls

A Step Ahead

Earning the Advance Professional Certificate in Fraud and Digital Forensics will keep you competitive in your current role by allowing you to build upon your skills, but it can also help you transition into a position with more responsibility or even into a completely different profession by teaching you new, valuable skills that today’s employers want and need.

CHESTER BREAREY

Associate Professor of Accounting; Director, Master of Science in Accounting