ARO Workshop on Digital Forensics

We are witnessing the possibility of becoming a victim of cyber crime is the number one fear of billions of people online. The field of Digital Forensics faces many challenges and difficult problems. The goal of this workshop is to stimulate community efforts on the development of scientific foundation for digital forensics and practical techniques towards addressing these problems.

Arlington, VA, USA
September 10-11, 2009

 

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Workshop Objectives

The possibility of becoming a victim of cyber crime is the number one fear of billions of people online. In the years of fighting against cyber-crimes and cyber-enabled crimes, we have seen that digital evidence may often be available for a very short period of time and/or involve huge volumes of data that are found locally on a single digital device or spread globally across dispersed public and proprietary platforms. The field of Digital Forensics faces many challenges and difficult problems. The goal of this workshop is to identify important digital forensic problems and research directions, and to stimulate community efforts on the development of scientific foundation for digital forensics and new theories and practical techniques towards addressing these problems.

We invite one-page short statement of ideas addressing the problems and topics of interest for the workshop. The workshop discussions will be initiated by presentations from invited speakers, each representing a different perspective related to digital forensics and views from law enforcement, military, industry, and academia. These presentations will be used to form the basis of the workshop discussions to follow. The remainder of the workshop will be devoted to group discussions led by group coordinators on a selected list of important topics in digital forensics. Topics of relevance include, but are not limited to:

  • Scientific Foundation and Models, and the Law

  • Digital Evidence Discovery, Collection, Recovery, and Storage

  • Digital Evidence Analysis

  • Network Forensics

  • Digital Forensics Tool Validation

  • Anti-forensics Techniques

Travel support is available for a limited number of invited attendees who need assistance.

Paper Submission Guidelines

Workshop participants are invited to submit one-page short statement (PDF format) to yguan@iastate.edu, on or before June 15, 2009. Please read the call-for-position-papers.

Workshop Organizers

Yong Guan, Iowa State University

Cliff Wang, ARO