University of Foggia: Promoting an Interdisciplinary Path in Security Issues, from the Crime Scene to Cyber Security

The Department of Law of the University of Foggia is engaged in researching issues related to crime scene investigations, cyber security and digital investigations. From these researches, two unique courses in Italy were born with the objective of providing a set of interdisciplinary skills on security issues (from the crime scene to the investigations of terrorist scenarios to cybersecurity issues). The first one, the three-year degree course in Investigative Sciences, offers a training course aimed at acquiring the basic knowledge of legal subjects related to crime scene investigations. It is combined with the knowledge of the main criminalistics techniques of intervention on the crime scene through a practical laboratory. The aim of the course is to provide a set of specialized knowledge in the study of both physical and digital traces. This course is completed through a two-year degree course in Legal Sciences of Security with the goal of creating professionalism that pertain to the sphere of security. This course focuses on the fields of privacy, cyber security and their effects in the legal, economic, institutional and social fields, and aims to provide specialized knowledge in three specific fields of intervention, such as data security, safety at work, and security of the State. The Department, through the creation of these courses, responds to the need to create the figure of the jurist of the future in an interdisciplinary perspective for understanding and combatting the most criminal phenomena in the national territory, with particular regard to organized and digital crimes.