Digital Forensics Awareness Week (why it should be a thing)

Presented at WAHCKon 2013, May 4, 2013, 1:50 p.m. (45 minutes)

Part 1: A presentation from the Ersnt and Young Digital Forensics team on what the discipline of Digital Forensics is and how it relates to Information Security Practitioners. It gives special emphasis to why every single person in the Information Security field should have an awareness of Digital Forensics and when it is used.

Part 2: A discussion about some of the common misconceptions in comparative image anaylsis, image fakery (its not as effective as you think), and how image forensics can be applied to digital forensic problem solving. (Also a furious endorsement of CSI:Miami and why the forensics field is both seriously over- estimated by criminals and under-estimated by the general public)


Presenters:

  • Lex Burke - Internet
    Lex has worked in journalism, media, NT server administration, Amiga programming, visual effects, and many other industries that died just after the year 2000. (If anyone knows a bookie, he just moved into knowledge management, and it's likely heading south as well.) He is also a fine purveyor of hoaxes internet and otherwise (UFOs, aliens, chat logs, moon landings ... pretending to be psychic at parties) and a beloved troll.
  • Chris Courtis - ORIGIN UNKNOWN. POSSIBLE PRODUCT OF A 1980s SUPER SOLDIER PROJECT
    Chris holds degrees in Computer Science, Cyber Forensics & Information Security Management, Internetworking & Security and Security, Terrorism & Counter Terrorism. He has also spent some time in the Australian Army as an Infantry Rifleman.

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