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WHY YOU MUST ATTEND
THE COMPUTER FORENSICS SHOW
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If you are involved in any of the following business areas,
The Computer Forensics Show should be on your calendar:
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Arbitration
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Broker/Dealer Claims
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Civil Litigation
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Class Action Disputes
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Construction Solutions
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Corporate Bankruptcy
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Corporate Governance
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Corporate Risk & Security
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Criminal Fraud & Deception Cases
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Employment & Family Law Cases
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Cyber Forensics
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Damage Assessment
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Digital Law
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E-Discovery
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Employee Internet Abuse
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- Environmental Litigation
- Financial Investigations
- Forensic Accounting
- General Commercial Disputes
- Industrial Espionage
- Insurance Claims
- Intellectual Property Claims
- International Risk & Investigations
- Intrusion Detection
- IT Security & Compliance
- Lending and Derivatives
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- More General Criminal Cases
- Post-Acquisition Disputes
- Disclosure of Corporate Information
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FOR LAWYERS
The Computer Forensics Show will
focus on topics of interest to legal and risk management
professionals and will address the key issues that relate to what
they need to know about the industry, and how computer forensics
can help drive revenue for their practice.
Like it or not, every computer is
a potential crime scene and must be treated with care. When
companies need to conduct internal investigations—especially those
involving litigation—discovering and maintaining evidence becomes
paramount.
For some companies, it is not a
question if one of their computers will be used as evidence in a
legal matter; it is a question of when.
No longer can parties or their
counsel claim to be unaware of digital data. Instead, judges are
expecting e-savvy litigators in their courtrooms.
Today’s business environment
continues to become more and more complex - with strict regulatory
and compliance requirements, increased scrutiny and the
ever-present threat of litigation. Because the majority of
information today is created and available only in an electronic
format, electronic data and the ability to properly address it in
a defensible manner are increasingly critical to the legal
process. These services are vital to any individual, company, or
law practice with cases that deal with sensitive information
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FOR IT PROFESSIONALS
“For some companies, it is not a
question of if one of their computers will be used as evidence
in a legal matter; it is a question of when.”
Computer Forensics is widely
used in prosecutors' offices, law firms, consulting firms,
police departments, law enforcement organizations, Immigration
and Naturalization Services, the FBI, the Drug Enforcement
Administration, and the U.S. Customs Service, among numerous
other industries.
The rate of fraud, abuse and
criminal activity on IT systems by hackers, private contractors
and even employees is increasing exponentially. Corporate IT,
Law Enforcement and Information Security Pros are often required
to perform computer forensics activities on their jobs.
For IT professionals already
familiar with computer forensics, The Computer Forensics Show
assembles the leading minds and operational experts in the
industry who will inform you about industry developments,
technology advances and trends.
For individuals and companies
currently not familiar with computer forensics, The Computer
Forensics Show will address issues that your organization needs
to be aware of and to help you prepare to deal with potential
problem areas that may dramatically impact your bottom line.
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FOR ACCOUNTANTS
Forensic Accounting is the
fastest-growing area of accounting. The demand for forensic
accountants and fraud investigators is rapidly growing. Federal,
state and local governmental agencies, like the Securities and
Exchange Commission, the Internal Revenue Service and the Offices
of Inspector General, all have a need for accountants and others
with forensic investigation skills. In the private sector, recent
legislation (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002) and auditing standards
(Statement on Auditing Standard No. 99) require companies and
their auditors to be more aggressive in detecting and preventing
fraud. This increases the demand for forensic accountants and
fraud investigators in both for-profit and not-for-profit
organizations and in accounting firms.
Forensic accountants become
involved in an array of investigations including:
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Criminal Investigations, where a forensic accountant may be
required to prepare a report with the objective of presenting
evidence in a professional and concise manner;
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Shareholders' and Partnership Disputes, involving assignments
that require a detailed analysis of numerous years of
accounting records in order to resolve, for example,
compensation and benefits disputes of shareholders or
partners;
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Personal Injury Claims, when a forensic accountant is asked to
quantify economic losses resulting from an accident, often
calculating resulting economic damage in cases of medical
malpractice and wrongful dismissal;
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Business Interruption, reviewing the details of an insurance
policy, for example, to investigate coverage issues and the
appropriate method of calculating the loss of areas such as
business interruptions, property losses, and employee
dishonesty (fidelity) claims;
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Fraud Investigations, which involves a forensic accountant's
work in determining funds tracing, asset identification, and
recovery, most commonly performed with employee fraud cases;
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Matrimonial Disputes, which require a forensic accountant to
trace, locate, and evaluate assets, including businesses,
properties, and other personal assets;
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Business Economic Losses, that of which includes areas such as
contract disputes, construction claims, expropriations,
product liability, trademark or patent infringements, and
losses occurring from a breach of a non-competition agreement;
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Professional Negligence, either through a technical
perspective, where the forensic accountant will investigate a
breach in an agreement, or through a loss quantification; and
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Mediation and Arbitration, where a forensic accountant may be
hired to become involved in an alternative dispute resolution
so that individuals and businesses may resolve disputes with
minimal disruption and with a minimal amount of time.
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FOR RISK MANAGEMENT
As IT security and risk
disciplines converge, it is increasingly important to architect
a comprehensive strategy across roles. As IT security and risk
management, professionals’ team together for a comprehensive
strategic update focused on and aligned with business goals such
as Security, Risk Management, Business Continuity Management,
and CISO roles.
All organizations are exposed to
uncertainties, some of which affect the organization in a
negative manner. In order to support the organization, IT
security professionals must be able to help their organizations’
management understand and manage these uncertainties. Limited
resources and an ever-changing landscape of threats and
vulnerabilities make completely mitigating all risks impossible.
Therefore, IT security professionals must have a toolset to
assist them in sharing a commonly understood view with IT and
business managers concerning the potential impact of various IT
security related threats to the mission. This toolset needs to
be consistent, repeatable, cost-effective and reduce risks to a
reasonable level.
For IT and business executives
responsible for creating, implementing, and managing a proactive
and comprehensive IT strategy for information security, risk
management, compliance, and business continuity management. An
understanding of risk and the application of risk assessment
methodology is essential to being able to create a secure
computing environment.
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FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
Law enforcement officers and
agencies at the municipal, state and federal level attempting to
extract digital evidence face growing challenges from more types
of devices with greater data storage capacity. Digital media
that could be seized in relation to an offense include
computers, laptops, flash drives, external storage devices,
digital cameras, game units and cellular phones. Investigators,
prosecutors and forensic examiners must deal with vastly more
data than they did just a few years ago. Case types have
included credit card theft, tax fraud, immigration fraud, arson,
homicide, child pornography and others.
Data contained on these digital
devices can assist law enforcement in a criminal investigation
or prosecution of crime in a variety of ways:
- Digital evidence may be found on a
computer or other electronic device directly related to the
offense committed.
- Digital evidence can be used to show
intent existed to commit a crime or premeditation of an act.
Many digital devices efficiently track user activity; it is
also possible to recover deleted files, both of which may
affect a criminal investigation.
- Another possible use for digital evidence
is in supporting or refuting witness, victim, or suspect
statements in cases of questionable credibility.
- Another useful application is to expand an
investigation by revealing new crimes or suspects. For
example, an identity theft investigation revealed that the
suspect was part of a network that was sharing, selling and
buying identity data.
An often overlooked use of
digital evidence is data mining. By exporting information from
multiple digital devices (such as call logs from multiple
cellular phones or e-mails from computers) and importing that
data into an analytical software package, investigators can
diagram and visualize a criminal enterprise or a timeline of
events.
In order to capitalize on the
potential value of digital evidence, law enforcement officer’s
and agencies might want to develop resources for processing
digital evidence, either independently or in conjunction with
other agencies, under a task force model to share resources.
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