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Forensic Computing (Dagstuhl Seminar 13482)
No full textForensic computing} (sometimes also called digital forensics, computer forensics or IT forensics) is a branch of forensic science pertaining to digital evidence, i.e., any legal evidence that is processed by digital computer systems or stored on digital storage media. Forensic computing is a new discipline evolving within the intersection of several established research areas such as computer science, computer engineering and law.
Forensic computing is rapidly gaining importance since the amount of crime involving digital systems is steadily increasing. Furthermore, the area is still underdeveloped and poses many technical and legal challenges.
This Dagstuhl seminar brought together researchers and practitioners from computer science and law covering the diverse areas of forensic computing. The goal of the seminar was to further establish forensic computing as a scientific research discipline, to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the research field, and to discuss the foundations of its methodology.
The seminar was jointly organized by Prof.Dr. Felix Freiling (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany), Prof.Dr. Radim Polcák (Masaryk University, Czech Republic), Prof.Dr. Gerrit Hornung (Universität Passau, Germany). It was attended by 22 participants and its structure was based on experiences from a similar seminar in 2011 (Dagstuhl Seminar 11401)
Forensic Computing (Dagstuhl Seminar 11401)
No full textForensic computing (sometimes also called digital forensics, computer forensics or IT forensics) is a branch of forensic science pertaining to digital evidence, i.e., any legal evidence that is processed by digital computer systems or stored on digital storage media. Forensic computing
is a new discipline evolving within the intersection of several established research areas such as computer science, computer engineering and law.
Forensic computing is rapidly gaining importance since the amount of crime involving digital systems is steadily increasing. Furthermore, the area is still underdeveloped and poses many technical and legal challenges.
This Dagstuhl seminar brought together researchers and practitioners from computer science and law covering the diverse areas of forensic computing. The goal of the seminar was to further establish forensic computing as a scientific research discipline, to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the research field, and to discuss the foundations of its methodology. The seminar was jointly organized by Prof. Dr. Felix Freiling (Friedrich-Alexander University
Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), Prof. Dr. Dirk Heckmann (University of Passau, Germany), Prof. Dr. Radim Polcàk (Masaryk University, Czech Republic), Prof. Dr. Joachim Posegga (University of Passau, Germany), and Dr. Roland Vogl (Stanford University, USA). It was attended by 27 participants
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06371 Abstracts Collection – From Security to Dependability
No full textFrom 10.09.06 to 15.09.06, the Dagstuhl Seminar 06371 ``From Security to Dependability'' was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl.
During the seminar, several participants presented their current
research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of
the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of
seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section
describes the seminar topics and goals in general.
Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available
06371 Executive Summary – From Security to Dependability
No full textThis seminar brought together researchers and
practitioners from the different areas of dependability and security,
in particular, from fault-tolerance, safety, distributed
computing, langelanguage-based security, and cryptography. The aim was to
discuss common problems faced by research in these areas, the
differences in their respective approaches, and to identify
research challenges in this context
Iterative Kompromittierungsgraphverfeinerung als methodische Grundlage für Netzwerkpenetrationstests
No full textSicherheit in der Digitalisierung des Alltags: Definition eines ethnografisch-informatischen Forschungsfeldes für die Lösung alltäglicher Sicherheitsprobleme
No full textIn den vergangenen Jahrzehnten hat es unübersehbar zahlreiche Fortschritte im Bereich der IT-Sicherheitsforschung gegeben, etwa in den Bereichen Systemsicherheit und Kryptographie. Es ist jedoch genauso unübersehbar, dass IT-Sicherheitsprobleme im Alltag der Menschen fortbestehen. Mutmaßlich liegt dies an der Komplexität von Alltagssituationen, in denen Sicherheitsmechanismen und Gerätefunktionalität sowie deren Heterogenität in schwer antizipierbarer Weise mit menschlichem Verständnis und Alltagsgebrauch interagieren. Um die wissenschaftliche Forschung besser auf Menschen und deren IT-Sicherheitsbedürfnisse auszurichten, müssen wir daher den Alltag der Menschen besser verstehen. Das Verständnis von Alltag ist in der Informatik jedoch noch unterentwickelt. Dieser Beitrag möchte das Forschungsfeld „Sicherheit in der Digitalisierung des Alltags“ definieren, um Forschenden die Gelegenheit zu geben, ihre Anstrengungen in diesem Bereich zu bündeln. Wir machen dabei Vorschläge einerseits zur inhaltlichen Eingrenzung der informatischen Forschung. Andererseits möchten wir durch die Einbeziehung von Forschungsmethoden aus der Ethnografie, die Erkenntnisse aus der durchaus subjektiven Beobachtung des „Alltags“ vieler einzelner Individuen zieht, zur methodischen Weiterentwicklung interdisziplinärer Forschung in diesem Feld beitragen. Die IT-Sicherheitsforschung kann dann Bestehendes gezielt für eine richtige Alltagstauglichkeit optimieren und neue grundlegende Sicherheitsfunktionalitäten für die konkreten Herausforderungen im Alltag entwickeln
Defining atomicity (and integrity) for snapshots of storage in forensic computing
No full textThe acquisition of data from main memory or from hard disk storage is usually one of the first steps in a forensic investigation. We revisit the discussion on quality criteria for "forensically sound" acquisition of such storage and propose a new way to capture the intent to acquire an instantaneous snapshot from a single target system. The idea of our definition is to allow a certain flexibility into when individual portions of memory are acquired, but at the same time require being consistent with causality (i.e., cause/effect relations). Our concept is much stronger than the original notion of atomicity defined by Vömel and Freiling (2012) but still attainable using copy-on-write mechanisms. As a minor result, we also fix a conceptual problem within the original definition of integrity
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