Topics of Interest

The sixth annual DFRWS APAC 2026 will be held in late October or early November as a hybrid event in Singapore, running concurrently with attendees participating in satellite sites within APAC.

We invite original contributions in the form of research papers, non-research presentations, demos, and posters in topic areas related to digital evidence and digital forensics.

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:

• AI for digital forensics
• Anti-forensics and anti-anti-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 for AI
• 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
• Laws and policies for digital evidence
• 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
• Special-purpose embedded systems (e.g., vehicles, industrial control systems, medical devices)
• Steganography and steganalysis
• Training and upskilling
• Visualization methods and tools for forensic analysis

Committees

Organizing Committee