DFRWS EU 2015 was held in Dublin March 23-25, with activities organized in two prime locations. Pre- and post- conference workshops are being held at the main conference hotel Hilton DoubleTree at Burlington Road, while the main track of the conference is being held at the University College Dublin’s O’Brien Centre for Science.
Keynote speakers were Chris Ashton from Immarsat and Troels Oerting from Barclays. Chris Ashton presented an overview of the techniques developed by Inmarsat in the search for the missing Malaysian airliner MH370, followed by a discussion on how these new techniques became accepted by the investigation team and formed the basis for a multi million dollar search. Troels Oerting provided a forward looking perspective on how to combat cybercrime using a combination of investigation and strategic proactive prevention. This talk combined his extensive experience in law enforcement and his perspective from the financial sector, highlighting current challenges and future needs.
A total of 12 papers were presented at the conference and where published in the special issue of Digital Investigation (Volume 12, Supplement 1). The Best Paper Award went to “Hviz: HTTP(S) Traffic Aggregation and Visualization for Network Forensics” by David Gugelmann, Fabian Gasser, Bernhard Ager and Vincent Lenders. In addition, there was a panel on “Forensic Tool Validation” moderated by Pavel Gladyshev, 7 short presentations, and 4 workshops.
The First European Workshop on Data Analytics for Information Security and Forensics (E-DAIS) was held immediately following on March 26. After a Keynote Address by Mr. Jean-Dominique Nollet on “Research challenges for large scale forensics & data analytics in cybercrime investigations”, there was a panel on “Societal / Privacy Problems of Big Data Analysis for Information Security and forensics”. The afternoon was for breakout session on interoperability standards, visual analytic techniques for information security and forensics, text translation and mining for information security and forensics, legal aspects of cross-jurisdictional data collection and analysis, and socio-technical approaches to strengthening human rights protection and public oversight over investigative big data analytics.
Conference Location:
Dublin Ireland
March 23, 2015 to March 25, 2015
Keynotes
The Search for MH370: Lessons from Inmarsat's Flightpath Reconstruction Analysis
Chris Ashton | InmarsatAbstract:In this talk, Christ Ashton will give an overview of the techniques developed by Inmarsat in the search for the missing Malaysian airliner MH370, followed by a discussion on how these new techniques became accepted by the investigation team and formed the basis for a multi million dollar search.
Bio:Mr. Ashton is the Director of Spectrum Engineering at Inmarsat, specializing in tracking aircraft using telemetry and modeling. He was in charge of the team that developed techniques to search for the missing Malaysian airliner MH370. Part of this work involved working with the investigation team to establish confidence in the search techniques that formed the basis for a multi million dollar search.
Combatting Cybercrime
Troels Oerting | BarclaysAbstract:In his talk, Troels Oerting provided a forward looking perspective on how to combat cybercrime using a combination of investigation and strategic proactive prevention. This talk combined his extensive experience in law enforcement and his perspective from the financial sector, highlighting current challenges and future needs.
Mr. Oerting has over 30 years’ experience in Law Enforcement, and now is CISO at Barclays. Over the past 15 years, Mr. Oerting has held senior management positions including: Head of the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and acting Head of Europol's Counter Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Centre, former Director of the Danish NCIS, National Crime Squad, SOCA and Director of Operations in Danish Security Intelligence Service; Assistant Director in Europol's IMT Department; and Assistant Director in Europol's Operational Department.
He is Chair of EC3 Programme Board; Chair of European Financial Coalition against sexual exploitation of children; on the Board of Managers in the Virtual Global Task Force and EU cybercrime Task Force; and EC3 representative in ICANN and ITU strategic meetings.
Participation
As the most established forum in the field, DFRWS is the preferred place to present the latest research and perspectives on best practices for all aspects of digital forensics. The blend of practitioners, researchers and tool developers at the conference presents a unique environment for collaboration and knowledge-sharing.
The 2015 DFRWS EU conference also offered several hands-on tutorial sessions, led by preeminent forensic researchers and developers, and free to all registered attendees. Two tracks of workshop sessions were offered on Monday March 23rd. These sessions included incident response, the digital forensics framework, memory forensics and common criteria for digital forensics experts.
Conference registration included access to all presentations, a copy of the printed proceedings, breakfasts, the welcome reception on March 23rd, and the famous rodeo challenge. Additionally, attendees registered for the whole conference may attend a banquet on March 25th. Discounts are available for Law Enforcement and student attendees.
Committees
Organizing Committee
Conference Chair
Eoghan Casey, Ph.D. (University of Lausanne)
Conference Chair
Pavel Gladyshev, Ph.D. (University College Dublin)
Vice Conference Chair
David-Olivier Jaquet-Chiffelle (University of Lausanne)
Vice Conference Chair
Mikael Lindström (Europol EC3) Robert-Jan Mora (Royal Dutch Shell)
Technical Program Chair
Hans Henseler (University of Applied Sciences Leiden)
Technical Program Vice Chair
Thomas Gloe (dence)
Technical Program Vice Chair
Felix Freiling (Friedrich-Alexander-University) Holger Morgenstern (Albstadt-Sigmaringen University)
Technical Program Committee Chair
Mariangela Biasiotti (Italian National Research Council)
Local Chair
Mark Scanlon (University College Dublin)
Proceedings Chair
Vassil Roussev, Ph.D. (University of New Orleans)
Keynote Chair
Owen O'Connor
Outreach Chair
Zeno Geradts (Netherlands Forensic Institute)
Outreach Vice Chair
Christina Thorpe (Institute of Technology Blanchardstown)
Advertising / Sponsorship
Daryl Pfeif (Digital Forensics Solutions and DFRWS)
Finances
Rick Smith (ATC-NY)
Web Chair
Tim Vidas (Carnegie Mellon University)
Demo & Posters Chair
Philip Anderson
Workshop Chair
Robert-Jan Mora (Royal Dutch Shell)
Workshop Vice Chair
Bruce Nikkel (Bern University of Applied Sciences)
Workshop Vice Chair
Peter Sommer
Registration & Local Arragements
Babak Habibnia (University College Dublin)
Local Arrangements
Paulo Roberto Nunes de Souza (University College Dublin)
Technical Program Committee
Frank Adelstein
ATC-NY
Philip Anderson
Northumbria University
Olga Angelopoulou
University of Derby
Cosimo Anglano
Universitá del Piemonte Orientale
Frédéric Baguelin
ArxSys
Endre Bangerter
Bern University of Applied Sciences
Harm van Beek
McAfee Foundstone
Owen Brady
King's College London
Frank Breitinger
University of New Haven
Jorge Capmany
European Central Bank
Ahmad Raza Cheema
National University of Sciences and Technology
Rob Coenraads
ABNAMRO bank NV
Michael Cohen
Patrick De Smet
NICC/INCC
Jeroen van den Bos
Netherlands Forensic Institute
Felix Freiling
Friedrich-Alexander-University
Erwin van Eijk
Netherlands Forensic Institute
Katrin Franke
Norwegian University of Technology and Science
Zeno Geradts
Netherlands Forensic Institute
Solal Jacob
ArxSys
Hans Henseler
University of Applied Sciences Leiden
Joshua James
Digital Forensic Investigation Research Laboratory, Hallym University
David-Olivier Jaquet-Chiffelle
University of Lausanne
Matthias Kirchner
Binghamton University
Jesse Kornblum
Markus Kuhn
University of Cambridge
Hanno Langweg
HTWG Konstanz
Timothy Leschke, Ph.D.
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Holger Morgenstern
Sachverstaendigenbuero Morgenstern
Martin Mulazzani
SBA Research
Gilbert Peterson
US Air Force Institute of Technology
Vassil Roussev, Ph.D.
University of New Orleans
Mark Scanlon
University College Dublin
Bradley Schatz, Ph.D.
Schatz Forensic
Andreas Schuster
Deutsche Telekom AG
Ahmed Shosha
University College Dublin
Peter Sommer
London School of Economics
Michael Spreitzenbarth
Siemens CERT
Adrie Stander
University of Cape Town
Marian Svetlik
Risk Analysis Consultants
Jean-Philippe Teissier
CERT Société Générale
Fergus Toolan
Norwegian Police University College
Theo Tryfonas
University of Bristol
Philip Turner
Hewlett Packard
Wietse Venema, Ph.D.
IBM Research
Tim Vidas
Carnegie Mellon University
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