Computer Forensics
& Student Prizes Presentation
Russell May
Abstract
Abstract
The talk and accompanying PowerPoint presentation covers two topics.
Firstly the basic rules of data recovery which must be followed for any
recovered data to be admissible in a court of law. Secondly it will show
some of the techniques used by forensic analysts to discover and recover
deleted or hidden data from storage media.
Profile
Russell May is the holder of a first-class honours degree in Computer
Science. He is also a Chartered Information Technology Professional and
a Chartered Information Systems Engineer, chartered by way the
Engineering Council of Great. He is an elected member of the British
Computer Society. Russell worked as a police officer in the West
Midlands Police, until he retired in April 2002 as Detective Sergeant,
officer in charge of the High Tech Crime Unit which he set up in January
1999. He has been involved in investigating computer crime and computer
forensics for 15 years and has investigated many crimes involving
computers from simple theft to murder and international terrorism.
Speaking and Educational Engagements:
CEIC Germany November 2004 - Frankfurt, Germany - Speaker on "New concepts in Computer Forensics, EnScript"
CEIC Holland November 2004 - Utrecht, Holland - Speaker on "New concepts
in Computer Forensics, EnScript"
CTOSE October 2004 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Speaker on "Third
Generation Computer Forensics"
Swedish Tax Office Computer Crime Conference September 2004 -
Gothenburg, Sweden - Speaker on "EnCase Field Intelligence Model"
FITWG Conference September 2004 - Krakow, Poland - Speaker on "Live
Network Forensics"
European Police Conference on Cyber Crime - May 2004 - Santa Sophia,
Italy - Speaker on "EnCase Field Intelligence Model"
Interpol Conference on Cyber Crime - May 2004 - Lisbon, Portugal -
Speaker on "Gathering evidence from computer systems"
National Conference on Cyber Crime - April 2004 - New Delhi, India -
Keynote speaker on "Third Generation Computer Forensics"
National Seminar on 'Search, Seizure and Analysis of Digital Evidence' -
April 2004 - Hyderabad, India - Keynote speaker on "Third Generation
Computer Forensics"
Gujarat Regional Conference on Cyber Crime - April 2004 - Ahmadabad,
India - Keynote speaker on "Third Generation Computer Forensics"
E-Crime Congress, February 2004 - London, UK - Facilitator "New Trends
in ECrime"
RSA Amsterdam 2003, November 2003- Amsterdam, Netherlands "Enterprise
Audit and Analysis-Utilising Full-time Forensics"
Police Computer Crime Symposium, November 2003 - Prague, Czech Republic
- Speaker on "EnCase and Forensic Data Recovery"
Regular Speaker/Lecturer on subject of Computer Forensics and Incident
Response at:
Birmingham University
Glamorgan University
Westminster University
Edinburgh University
Aberdeen University
Regional British Computer Society Meetings, UK
