Speaker: Dario Forte

Presentation 1 - topic: Advances in Digital Investigations: Research, open source and commercial tools.

Presentation 1 - abstract: The historical period we are living is representing an important transition between the “old” and “new” course of digital investigations.
Terms such as: Live system analysis, e-Discovery, Opensource Vs Commercial tools are really influencing the market and the methodologies. This talk will illustrate the current trend in Digital Investigations, with particular reference to Technologies, research and law.

Presentation 2 - topic: PTK, A New Open Source Forensic Project

Presentation 2 - abstract: PTK is an alternative advanced interface for the suite TSK (The Sleuth Kit). PTK was developed from scratch and besides providing the functions already present in  Autopsy Forensic Browser it implements numerous new features essential during forensic activity. PTK is not just a new graphic and highly professional interface based on Ajax technology but offers a great deal of features like analysis, search and management of complex cases of digital investigation. This Presenation will be a tutorial for this new and, universally defined, really interesting project.

About Dario Forte:
Dario Forte, CFE, CISM, is Adjunct Professor of Digital Forensics and Incident Management at University of Milano DTI. Former police detective and founder of DFLabs has worked in information security since 1992. He has been involved in numerous international conferences on information warfare, including the RSA Conference, Digital Forensic Research Workshops, the Computer Security Institute, the US Department of Defense Cybercrime Conference, and the US Department of Homeland Security (New York Electronic Crimes Task Force). He was also the keynote speaker at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. He provides security consulting, incident response and forensics services to several government agencies and private companies.
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