Topics of Interest

DFRWS welcomes new perspectives that push the envelope of what is currently possible in digital forensics. Potential topics (alphabetical) to be addressed by submissions include, but are not limited to:

• Anti-forensics and anti-anti-forensics
• Artificial intelligence-assisted digital forensics
• Case studies and trend reports
• Copyright infringement response
• Cryptocurrency investigation
• Data decoding, deserialization and decryption
• Deleted/Damaged data recovery methods and tools
• Development of digital forensic infrastructures
• Digital evidence sharing and exchange
• Digital forensic preparedness / readiness
• Digital forensic tool validation
• Digital forensics in smart cities
• Digital investigation case management
• Event reconstruction methods and tools
• Forensic analysis of anonymous network based activities
• Forensic analysis of cloud and virtualized environments
• Forensic analysis of cloud-based services
• Forensic analysis of databases
• Forensic exploration of newly emerging devices, OSes, apps and services
• Incident response on malware and targeted attacks
• IoT forensics (e.g., drones, cars, vessels, SCADA, implanted medical devices)
• Laws and policies for digital evidence
• Large language models for digital forensics
• Machine learning and data mining for digital forensics
• Memory acquisition and analysis
• Methodological frameworks for digital forensic activities
• Mobile and embedded device forensics
• Multimedia (image, audio, video) data analysis
• Multi-source data integration and correlation analysis
• Network and distributed system forensics
• Non-traditional forensic scenarios / contexts
• Privacy-preserving forensics
• Steganography and steganalysis
• Visualization methods and tools for forensic analysis