Europe's Longest Running Forensics Event

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EUROPE’S LONGEST RUNNING FORENSICS EVENT

Forensics Europe Expo is the most important forum of discussion and debate for the global forensics community

Forensics Europe Expo, taking place on 5-6 March, is the meeting place for thousands of senior buyers looking to source the latest technological innovations on the market and to hear about recent developments in the industry.

For the first time, Forensics Europe Expo will take place on the same show floor as Security & Counter Terror Expo at Olympia, London. As part of UK Security Week, the show attracts over 1,500 international forensics professionals from the government, law enforcement, laboratories, private sector, military, legal sector, universities and intelligence sector. The event continues to be the most important forum of discussion and debate for the global forensics community. The conference programme will deliver high-level speakers discussing the latest industry trends. Following Roy Isbell’s opening remarks to kickstart the first day of the event, the first session will be hosted by Brian Cusack, director of the Cyber Forensic Research Center at AUT University. His session will be about making sense of digital forensic international standards.

Scott Zimmerman, legal editor at Digital Forensics Magazine, will follow with a presentation on social media, the dark web and admissibility. Digital evidence gathered through a traditional investigation is well understood, but nowadays, it is more likely that evidence will be gathered from multiple remote systems which are not under the control of the investigators. This session will take a look at two categories of remote evidence: social media and the dark web.

Gareth Davies, academic and cyber consultant at the University of South Wales, will lead a talk on vehicle data forensics on unsupported systems. The presentation will help attendees understand how to approach a vehicle from a digital forensics perspective, covering a range of infotainment units, data extraction methods and examples of what data types can be used as digital evidence.

Dan Pierce, PhD researcher at Staffordshire University will discuss how the Internet of Things can be used for investigations and intelligence. NLP algorithms are at the foundation of the increasingly popular virtual assistants such as Amazon Alexa, and empower such devices to interact with users on an almost human level. Deployment of similar technology within digital forensic investigations has the capability to search vast evidential data sets based on sentiment and emotion.

Joseph Pochron, president of forensic technology and consulting at Transperfect will discuss contemporary collection techniques that adhere to best practices and avoid excessive litigation costs.

The afternoon conference session will kick off with Dr. Raffaele Olivieri from the Digital Forensics laboratory of Italian Law Enforcement. Investigations with a high amount of heterogeneous data represent a huge problem in the search of events connection, facts or to demonstrate alternative solutions. Raffaele will discuss the need for contextualisation after data collection and digital forensics analysis.

Zeno Geradts, senior forensic student at Netherlands Forensic Institute will lead a session on artificial intelligence in digital forensic science, and Gabriela Ahmadi-Assalemi from Wolverhampton Cyber Research Institute will discuss driver attribution for digital forensic investigations in connected cars.L

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