Introduction to Workshop

The increased utilization of personal digital devices (such as computers, smart phones, tablets, sensors and storage media) creates an ever expanding volume of potential digital evidence. But the number of digital forensics investigators available has not kept pace with this digital evidence expansion and this imbalance has created a significant obstacle for timely investigation/prosecution in law enforcement. The relative scarcity of digital investigators has created a bottleneck in the digital investigation process. This problem requires innovative and advanced digital evidence analysis methods in law enforcement. These new methods will serve to alleviate the bottleneck, by providing new tools for the automated discovery, correlation, examination, analysis and understanding of digital evidence. Similarly, advanced big data analytics have become a critical need in cybercrime investigations as they also require novel approaches to automated data analysis.

Publication

The authors of accepted papers must guarantee their presence at the conference for the papers to be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference in order to include the paper in the proceedings.

Research Topics

1. Algorithms

• Machine Learning-aided analysis
• Graph-based detection
• Topic modelling
• Secure platforms
• Distributed storage and processing
• Secure collaborative platforms

2. Applications

• Network Forensics Readiness
• Cyber Threats Intelligence
• Malware Analysis \& Detection
• Emails mining
• Events correlations
• Acccess Logs analysis
• Mobile Forensics
• Fraud Detection
• Database Forensics
• IoT Forensics

3. Data

• Novel datasets
• Digital Forensics data simulation
• Anonymised case data
• Data storage standards
• New formats and taxonomies

Paper Submission

The authors are invited to submit: full-length papers (up to 10 page IEEE 2-column format), short papers (up to 10 page IEEE 2-column format) or abstract papers (up to 3 page IEEE 2-column format) through the online submission system.

Papers should be formatted to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines, see formatting instructions here. 

Best Papers

Selected paper will be nominated for submission to Special Issue on Cyber Threat Intelligence and Analytics. The extended papers should have at least 60% of new material and will be send through a review process to ensure the quality of contributions.