9 June / 10 June 2021
5 August 2021 – This past June my media team and I had the opportunity (and pleasure) to once again be involved in the planning of the Digital Investigations Conference, Switzerland’s only such conference that provides a platform for computer forensic experts, vendors, partners and sponsors working in digital investigations and e-Discovery.
It was created and it is sponsored by Arina, one of the dominant resellers for globally leading products in the areas of digital forensics, mobile forensics, e-discovery, cybersecurity, data duplication systems and network forensics.
DIC draws attendees from the world of academia, advisory services, corporations, government agencies, law enforcement units, law firms, and military organizations. So you are able to view and discuss common digital investigation issues, and common digital investigation problems from multiple angles.
We went virtual this year but it was still a raging success. Next month I’ll have a detailed wrap-up (with scores of videos).
And, once again, I was delighted to provide the keynote address.
I tried to provide a “Big Picture” view. COVID-19, Encrochat, massive and recurring data breaches and ransomware attacks, artificial intelligence gone wild, etc., etc. The dynamics of global insecurity … digital and otherwise and all the related threats … are eerily similar to the lead-up to the pandemic. It can sound like a cacophony. And just like with the pandemic, the alarm has been ringing about digital security for decades, but we are just hitting snooze instead of waking up and dealing with the threat.
This was my attempt to unpack some of this and look at the vulnerability of networked systems and think about it in terms’ of the conferences three main themes this year: traditional digital investigations, cloud investigations and open source intelligence.
And if my performance seems a little stiff, I was recovering from a severe back injury and I was pretty much strapped into my chair.