IIT Ropar Hosts International Conference on Digital Forensics

Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar has hosted the 14^th edition of IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics in collaboration with the University of Tulsa, USA. The three-day international conference began on January 3, 2018, and will conclude on January 5, 2018. The international conference will witness the participation of government officials, law-enforcement personnel, researchers and academicians from countries across the globe.

The three-day conference will have 8 sessions and presentation of 20 research papers on the following topics: -

• Forensics
• Industrial Control System
• Mobile and Embedded Device Forensics
• Cloud Forensics
• Digital Forensic Tools and Techniques
• Network Forensics
• Digital Forensic Models

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During the conference, the keynote lectures will be delivered by: -

• Member of Cloud Computing Innovation Council of India, Mr. Suhaan Mukherjee will deliver his lecture on ‘Legal Challenges to Digital Forensics in India’.
• A scientist at Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Mr. Gaurav Gupta will deliver his lecture on ‘Digitized Document Fraud: New Directions and Opportunities’.
• Professor of Computer Science and Chemical Engineering at the University of Tulsa, Professor Sujeet Shenoi will deliver his talk on ‘Case Studies in Invasive Embedded Device Forensics: Evidence Extraction and Firmware Verification’.
• National Cyber Security Coordinator, Dr. Gulshan Rai will deliver his lecture on ‘Cyber Security – The Indian Perspective’.

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On the first day of the conference, a poster presentation session will be organised to showcase interesting ideas from young practitioners and researchers. The last day of the conference will have a long session, specifically for law enforcement professions and specialists across the country.