tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66015273087589156382024-08-29T12:41:01.862+01:00Ray on...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601527308758915638.post-11919848096367972112011-05-07T03:01:00.005+01:002011-05-10T02:38:00.952+01:00Trends & Challenges in Incident Response and Digital ForensicsSeveral months ago, a colleague suggested that I develop a presentation about the challenges facing the field of digital forensics. After some discussion and an informal poll among several information security practitioners I developed the topic and delivered it on May 3rd at the <a href="http://www.secureworldexpo.com/events/conference-details.php?cid=3595">SecureWorld Expo</a> in Atlanta. The presentation titled "<a href="http://www.scribd.com/full/55043235?access_key=key-1j5weidzu763noog5s0k">Trends in Incident Response and Digital Forensics</a>" is available as a PDF.<br />
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The presentation included audience participation and covered topics such as: cloud computing, imaging and analyzing RAM, storage challenges, encryption, mobile devices, and the "CSI effect." Due to time constraints, there were a number of topics that were not covered in the presentation so they have been listed here in no particular order.<br />
<ul><li>Hybrid challenges</li>
<ul><li>Mobile devices that use Internet (cloud based) storage</li>
<li>High capacity hard drives and data hoarding </li>
</ul><li>Social Networking</li>
<ul><li>FaceBook, FourSquare, MySpace, Twitter, etc </li>
</ul><li>Cache-less web browsing</li>
<li>The law (or lack thereof)</li>
<li>Encryption</li>
<ul><li>Full or Whole Disk Encryption</li>
<li>Inexpensive and readily available encryption applications</li>
</ul><li>Cloud technologies</li>
<li>Storage</li>
<ul><li>Solid State Drives</li>
<li>Storage Area Networks</li>
<li>Network Attached Storage</li>
<li>Extremely large RAID arrays</li>
<li>Inexpensive high capacity storage</li>
</ul><li>Mobile devices (smart phones, cell phones, and tablets)</li>
<li>Photocopiers & printers</li>
<li>Entertainment devices such as televisions and game consoles</li>
<li>Massive volumes of data</li>
<li>GPS units</li>
</ul>Feel free to comment if you have a suggestion to include on the list. Future posts will address potential solutions to some of the topics listed above.<br />
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