The 1st EU conference of DFRWS was held in 2014 in Amsterdam at the Pakhuis De Zwijger. Paper, symposia, plenary and poster sessions were held throughout the day on May 7, 8 and 9. There were a total of 130 participants from more than 15 countries.

Keynote speakers were Peter Zinn, the Senior Cybercrime Advisor for the Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit, and Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm from Bureau Brandijs. Peter Zinn spoke about how the pace of change within digital forensics makes it difficult for law enforcement agents to keep up to date. He highlighted the difficulty with preventing criminals who are predominantly active online, citing two of the main problems as being the general availability of internet access and the concept of the internet having “no borders”, making it difficult for cases to be built against web-savvy criminals who work across international borders. Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm addressed the difficulty of explaining to non-experts how digital evidence is forensically extracted, and how it can back up certain elements of a case. He emphasized that it is important to be able to demonstrate that extrapolated data backs up facts rather than theories.

There where a total of 14 accepted papers which are all published in the Proceedings of the First Annual DFRWS Europe Volume 11, Supplement 1, Pages S1-S120 (May 2014).

The Best Paper Award went to “Robust Linux Memory Acquisition with Minimal Target Impact” by Johannes Stuettgen and Michael Cohen.