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BSc Forensic Science Computer Science VI Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

This degree runs on the Choice Based Credit System throughout, items 6.10, 6.11 and 6.12 of the Academic Council of 17 May 2022, brought in one year at a time from 2022-23. The University has published no NEP 2020 syllabus for it. The University examines only the third year of this degree centrally, under exam forms 1S00815 and 1S00816; the colleges examine the first four semesters.

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Semester 6 · TY BSc Forensic Science · 2 credits · 100 marks

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Syllabus for Computer Science VI

Semester 6 · TY BSc Forensic Science · 2 credits · 100 marks

Module I: Speaker Identification: Forensic speaker identification Forensic

  • phonetics Readership The take-home messages Use of Auditory analysis, Acoustic analysis, Computer technique to recognize, identify and discriminate between human voices, Voice characteristic for future verifications and identification, computer Recognition of Voice and Speech. Principles of Forensic speaker identification Characterizing forensic speaker identification: Principles of Generation of speech and its uniqueness Speaker recognition Speaker identification and verification Forensic significance: Phonemic structure.

Module II: E-mail investigations: Exploring the role of email in

  • investigations, exploring the role of client and server in email, investigating email crimes and violations, understanding email servers, using specialized email forensic tools.
  • Introduction to Cell phone and mobile device forensics: Understanding mobile device forensic, understanding acquisition procedures for cell phones and mobile devices.
  • File system analysis: What is file system? Different categories of data in file system, FAT ,NTFS and Ext file system and analysis

Module III: Introduction to Cyber Security:

  • Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability – Triad.
  • Attacks: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Risk. Risk Management,
  • Risk Assessment and Analysis. Information Classification,
  • Policies, Standards, Procedure and Guidelines. Controls: Physical, Logical and Administrative; Security Frameworks, Defence in-
  • depth: Layers of Security. Identification and Authentication –
  • Factors.Authorization and Access Controls- Models, Methods and Types of Access Control. Future scope of cyber security
  • Web Security: SSL Encryption, TLS, SET. Intrusion detection.
  • Securing online payments (OTP).

Module IV: Introduction to Emerging Trend in Digital Technologies and

  • Forensics: Data Science, Big Data, IoT, AI, Machine Learning,
  • Deep Learning, Deep Fake, Dark Web, Cloud Technologies and
  • other technologies.

Text books and Additional References

  • 1 Philip Rose, Forensic Speaker Identification, CRC Press, 2002Brian Carrier, File System Forensic Analysis, Addison Wesley Professional.
  • 2 Cory Altheide and Harlan Carvey, Digital Forensics with open source tools, Syngress.
  • 3 Computer Forensics – Computer Crime Scene Investigation, Second Edition, John R. Vacca, Charles River Media Inc., ISBN 1-58450-389-0.
  • 4 Practical Mobile Forensics, Satish Bommisetty, Rohit Tamma, Heather Mahalik, Packt Publishing Ltd., 2014,ISBN 978-1-78328-831-1
  • 5 Learning iOS Forensics, Mattia Epifani, Pasquale Stirparo,Packt Publishing Ltd, 2015 ISBN 978-1-78355-351-8
  • 6 Guide to Computer Forensics and Investigations, Fourth Edition, Bill Nelson, Amelia
  • 7 Phillips, Christopher Steuart, Cengage Learning,2010,ISBN-13: 978-1-435-49883-9 ,ISBN-10: 1-435-49883-6
  • 8 Wireless Crime and Forensic Investigation, Gregory Kipper,Auerbach Publications
  • 9 Digital Evidence and Computer Crime, Third Edition Eoghan Casey.Published by Elsevier Inc
  • 10 Mobile phone security and forensics: A practical approach by Iosif I. Androulidakis, Springer publications, 2012
  • 11 The basics of digital forensics : the primer for getting started in digital forensics, John Sammons., Syngress publisher ,2012
  • 12 Certified Information (Security Expert, Main Book, Innobuss Knowledge Solutions (P) Ltd.
  • 13 Certified Ethical Hacker Manual
  • 14 www.hackthissite.org
  • 15 Security in Computing, C. P. Pfleeger, and S. L. Pfleeger, Pearson Education
  • 16 Network and System Security by John R. Vacca, Syngrees Publication
  • 17 Cryptography And Network Security: Principles and practice by Stallings,
  • 18 Computer Security: Art and Science by Matt Bishop, Pearson Education.
  • 19 Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (4th Edition) (Pearson Series in Artifical Intelligence) BY Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig
  • 1 Seema Acharya, Subhasini Chellappan, "Big Data Analytics" Wiley 2015
  • 2 Kai Hwang, Min Chen,”Big-Data Analytics for Cloud, IoT and Cognitive Computing”, Wiley publication
  • 3 EMC Education Services, "Data Science and Big Data Analytics: Discovering, Analyzing,Visualizing and Presenting Data", Wiley publishers, 2015.
  • 20 Vijay Madisetti, ArshdeepBahga, ―Internet of Things: A Hands-On Approachǁ 21.

Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Sc. (Forensic Science) under the Choice Based Credit System, in force from the academic year 2024-25. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.

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