[DFSci] CFP: IEEE Security & Privacy issue on Digital Forensics

[Wietse Venema]

CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE SECURITY AND PRIVACY MAGAZINE SPECIAL ISSUE ON  
DIGITAL FORENSICS

Deadline for submissions: 15 July 2008
Guest editors: Michael Caloyannides, Ideal Innovations (mickey at  ieee.org)
Nasir Memon, Polytechnic University (memon at poly.edu)
Wietse Venema, IBM (wietse at porcupine.org)

We find ourselves today in a "digital world" where most information
is created, captured, transmitted, stored, and processed in digital
form.  Although, representing information in digital form has many
compelling technical and economic advantages, it has led to new
issues and significant challenges when performing forensics analysis
of digital evidence. There has been a slowly growing body of
scientific techniques for recovering evidence from digital data.

These techniques have come to be loosely coupled under the umbrella
of "Digital Forensics." Digital Forensics can be defined as "The
collection of scientific techniques for the preservation, collection,
validation, identification, analysis, interpretation, documentation
and presentation of digital evidence derived from digital sources
for the purpose of facilitating or furthering the reconstruction
of events, usually of a criminal nature."

This call for papers invites articles accessible to a broad audience
covering all aspects of digital forensics from topics, including
but not limited to, the following:

     * Computer Forensics - File system and memory analysis.
     * File carving.
     * Incident response and live analysis.
     * Media (Image, Audio, Video) forensics.
     * Media source identification.
     * Detecting and localizing media tampering and processing.
     * Device forensics - Small scale and mobile devices
     * Software forensics
     * Network Forensics- network traffic analysis, trace-back and attribution
     * Large-scale investigations - Data mining and information discovery
     * Privacy and social issues related to forensics.
     * Digital evidence and the law
     * Understanding the limitation of digital evidence.
     * Anti-forensics and anti-anti-forensics
     * Case studies and trend reports
     * Digital evidence storage and preservation

This special issue is being simultaneously published with a special
issue on the same topic of the signal processing magazine published
by the signal processing society. The call for papers of the signal
processing magazine special issue can be seen at
http://apollo.ee.columbia.edu/spm/?i=cfp/Mar09 .