ARO Workshop on Digital Forensics

Workshop Objectives

The field of digital forensics faces many challenges and exceptionally difficult problems. We have seen that digital evidence may often be available for a very short period of time and involve huge volumes of data that are found locally on a single digital device or spread globally on the Internet. The goal of this workshop is to identify "big" and "hard" challenges and problems regarding digital forensics, and stimulate community efforts towards a scientific foundation for digital forensics and practical techniques that solve the real and important problems.

The ARO Workshop on Digital Forensics will be held on September 10-11, at Arlington, VA. This workshop will discuss research challenges, approaches, and roadmaps in the area of digital forensics. The workshop summary will help the ARO and other federal funding agencies to set up new research programs in this space.

Organizers:

Yong Guan, Iowa State University

Cliff Wang, ARO

Sponsor:

Army Research Office

The workshop agenda has been finalized and posted to the website. Two keynote speakers - Mr. Steven D. Shirley (Director of the DoD Cyber Crime Center) and Mr. Thomas G. Motta (Section Chief of Digital Evidence, FBI) gave talks on challenging DF problems and important research directions. The workshop had 75 attendees from DHS, DoD, DOE, FBI, NIJ, NIST, academia, and industry, and discussed research challenges, approaches, and roadmaps in the area of digital forensics.

The workshop report will be released after the workshop. Thanks to all who have contributed and actively participated in the workshop!