Agape Blog

Here are this week’s links to some special topics on forensics and related topics.

1. An essential guide to computer data recovery for IT professionals. Read more

2. A unique presentation highlighting the importance of Mobile Forensics. Read more

3. A real life example, wherein an anonymous hacker posted details of millions of residents online - just to highlight the data protection problems in Chile. Read more

An organization called NCFTA Canada has been setup in Montreal by Concordia University to fight the increasing threat of cyber crimes. National Cyber Forensics Training Alliance Canada (NCFTA Canada) has been formed with the alliance of Bell Canada, Concordia University, Rogers Communication and Microsoft Canada.

NCFTA Canada will enable and develop partnerships between the public sector, law enforcement agencies, the private sector and academic organizations that will reduce the impact of cyber-crime affecting Canadians.

NCTFA Canada will combine resources, intelligence, expertise and R&D efforts to effectively and cooperatively work on:

• Promoting information security in Canada.
• Investigating mutually defined cyber-crime targets to gather intelligence, define prevention methods, and develop counter-measures.
• Developing and publishing information or processes that will help protect organizations or individuals from cyber-crime.
• Carrying well-focused collaborative research and development initiatives.
• Developing and sharing tools that aid in the investigation or prevention of cyber-crime.
• Building relationships with organizations having similar vision both nationally and internationally.

Complete IT security cannot be achieved by using a single tool or technique. Today’s IT infrastructure is becoming more complex and requires very robust solutions to prevent security breaching.

To cover all the latest trends and technologies in IT security in the BFSI (Banks, Finance Service & Insurance), manufacturing, energy and other industries in Asia, a 2 day event called SECURASIA 2008 was organized in Malaysia. To answer more industry-specific issues and real-life case studies, we had been the Diamond Sponsors for this event (refer the screenshot given below). Here we had interactive sessions, panel discussions, open dialogues and much more; regarding IT security. The event also included a major exhibition on the latest IT security solutions.

This was the largest IT security event ever held in South East Asia.