The Northeast Digital Forensics Exchange (NeFX) is a collaboration on digital forensics and information assurance between federal and state law enforcement, academia, and industry. The goal is to bring together leading practitioners and academics in order to yield partnerships that advance research on digital forensic science through mutual sharing of the problems of practice and research.

This year, a UofL team from CECS and JA, Michael Losavio, Deborah Keeling, and Adel Elmaghraby, will participate in a panel at the NeFX 2010.

Topics include:

• Imaging/Monitoring
• Network Forensics
• Small-scale and Mobile Device Forensics
• Data Processing and Analytics
• Software Forensics and Malware Analysis
• File Carving and File System Analysis
• Anti-forensics Techniques
• Digital Forensics (from signal processing perspective)
• Evidence Modeling and Principles
• Live and Memory Analysis
• Multimedia Forensics
• Database, Web, and Cloud Computing System Forensics
• Digital Evidence Storage and Preservation
• Forensic tool Validation: Methodologies and Principles
• Cyber-crime Strategy Analysis & Modeling
• Advanced search, analysis, and presentation of digital evidence
• Courtroom expert witness and case presentation
• Case studies
• Legal and Sociological Issues
• Intelligence Issues in Forensics

For more information about the NeFX 2010 workshop, visit http://nefx.cs.georgetown.edu/index.html.