The 2010 European Digital Forensics and Incident Response Summit

Dates:

Summit Dates: September 8 - 9, 2010

Summit Venue:

Millennium Gloucester Hotel & Conference Centre London
4 - 18 Harrington Gardens
London, GB
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7373 6030
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7373 0409
Web site: Millennium Gloucester Hotel Site

Table of Contents

• Summit Agenda
• Summit Overview
• What is Special About the SANS Incident Response and Digital Forensics Summit in the EU?
• Stay Connected for Updates to the Summit
• Register Today

Summit Overview

Everywhere around you, there is a digital storage device within arms reach. We have "Electronic ADD."

On a daily basis, you use digital devices constantly. You have a mobile device where you make phone calls, text message, post on Twitter, and surf the web. You use a computer to read email, pay bills, order groceries, and even watch TV. You probably also have one or more of the following devices: GPS, video game system, eReader, MP3 player, digital video recorder, or more.

For better or worse, our lives and our personal/private data are now recorded on these devices moment-by-moment. As a result, crimes, civil litigation cases, and incidents exploiting your stored data found on these devices are increasing.

The need for digital forensic professionals to analyze these devices is increasing due to the sheer number of incidents and cases that every organization faces. Incidents such as TJX, Heartland, and Hannaford, are routinely in the news. Security data breach costs are in the millions of dollars. Being able to effectively respond, investigate, and eventually answer difficult questions is crucial. In addition, civil law suits are seeing an increase in utilization of electronically stored evidence. For criminal cases, it is becoming the norm to collect the subject or victim's cell phone, computer, and other electronic devices in order to help solve the crime.

Organizations need to trust that they are hiring qualified professionals to solve these challenges.

In Spring 2010, the SANS Digital Forensics and Incident Response Summit has its European debut in London to discuss the latest trends and hear from industry experts. More specific details will be forthcoming. If you would like to be considered to speak at this inaugural European event, please email rlee@sans.org to discuss some options and submit your topic.

Check out some of the presentations from the 2009 US Forensics Summit

• 2009 US Forensics Summit Presentations

What Is Special About This SANS Incident Response and Digital Forensics Summit in the EU?

1. The speakers. There is a lot of talent in the EU which is often not sufficiently exposed because they don't have the chance to travel all the way to the US. Similarly the vast majority of the Forensics Community cannot afford to travel there. With this Summit we want to create an opportunity for the EU forensic community to meet the local experts and learn from their invaluable knowledge and experience.
2. You, the Community. We want to create an opportunity to share experiences with your colleagues from other Law Enforcement or Military Agencies, Corporations, Financial Companies, Telcos, etc. You can exchange ideas on how to approach and solve some of the most excruciating problems today: short budgets, transnational investigations, legislation, malware, fraud, etc.
3. Localization. Even when similar problems,solutions, tools and techniques are used all around the world, in the SANS Incident Response and Forensics Summit EU we want to define EU-specific problems and together find solutions to them.
4. We don't want to forget that the EU receives multiple visitors from all over Africa, Middle East and Asia. We also want to welcome them to this Summit, as they all have similar problems to the ones we have.
5. We want the SANS Forensics Summit EU to be your favorite event of the year, the forum in which the top experts in the EU and nearby regions, the Vendors and the Community will have the chance to meet and shareknowledge, experience and solutions, and we will work hard to make that happen.

This is a unique opportunity you shouldn't let pass. Register now for the SANS Incident Response & Digital Forensics Summit EU 2010.

Websites To Stay Connected To The Latest Summit Updates

• The SANS Computer Forensics Website
  This website is the portal into the community, we have over 300 white papers, website links, downloads for free tools, and a link to the SANS Forensic Blog.
• The SANS Computer Forensics Blog
• SANS Forensics Twitter Feed @sansforensics
• Computer Forensics Community Page
  This site includes links to over 50 different digital forensic blogs/community sites - it is separated by Computer Forensic Blogs, E-Discovery Blogs, and Computer Forensic Podcasts.