CFP 4th Australian Digital Forensics Conference

["Craig VALLI" <c.valli () ecu edu au>]

4th Australian Digital Forensics Conference 
"Going Mobile" 

December 4th, 2006 
Edith Cowan University (ECU)
Mount Lawley Campus, 
Western Australia 

Background
The 4th Australian Digital Forensics Conference 2006 will be held on
Monday, December 4th at the Edith Cowan University (ECU), Mount Lawley
Campus, Western Australia by the School of Computer and Information
Science. 

The aim of ADFC 2006 is to bring together IT managers, system and
network administrators, security specialists, academics, security
solutions vendors, practitioners and anyone interested in computer
forensics its role and application.

The focus theme this year is  "Going Mobile" examining the emerging area
of mobile device forensics. The merger between the computer and the
mobile phone is happening with almost geometric proportions. Mobile
phones are about to be released that will have in-built hard disks of
4GB or better capacity and the ability to store and edit a variety of
documents as well as take photos and several hours of video.

Full papers are invited in the following areas (but not limited to):

*       Forensic Computing
*       Incident Management
*       Incident Response
*       Forensic Method
*       Case Studies
*       Investigation Frameworks and Methods
*       Network Forensics
*       Cyber Crime Detection and Investigation
*       Response Team Cooperation and Legal Issues 
*       Legal aspects of Computer Forensics
*       Enterprise level forensic computing
*       Forensic Computer training and education

Conference Paper
You are hereby invited to submit full papers. Submitted papers must be
in English, should be typed in a single column, single-spaced format,
and must adhere to the maximum word limit of 5000 words. 
They must include the author's name, affiliation and e-mail address, a
200 word abstract and keywords identifying the paper's area of
application in digital forensics.

Paper Review Process
All submitted papers will be double blind peer reviewed before
acceptance for publication. All papers must be submitted via the
conference website. 
For more detailed information regarding submissions requirements, please
visit the website at http://scissec.scis.ecu.edu.au/conferences2006/

Joint Conferences 
The 4th Australian Digital Forensics Conference (ADFC 2006) will be run
in conjunction with the 4th  Australian Information Security Management
Conference 
and the 7th Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference
jointly from 4-5th December 2006 at Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley
Campus, Western Australia.

Accommodation in Western Australia 
The Mount Lawley Campus of ECU is less than 5kms from the Perth CBD.
Special rates for ADFC 2006 will be arranged with several Western
Australian hotels. Conference delegates should make their bookings
directly with these hotels referring to ADFC 2006 Conference site.

Conference Committee
Dr. Craig Valli                 Edith Cowan University, Australia
Dr. Andrew Woodward             Edith Cowan University, Australia
Dr. Glenn Dardick                     Longwood University, USA
Prof. Bill Hutchinson           Edith Cowan University, Australia
Trish Williams                Edith Cowan University, Australia
Chris Bolan                     Edith Cowan University, Australia
Suen Yek                              Edith Cowan University, Australia
Dr. Andy Jones                  BT Security Labs, UK
Prof. Matthew Warren            Deakin University, Australia
Dr. Jill Slay                   UniSA, Australia
Dr. Steven Furnell              Plymouth University, UK

Key Dates 
Papers Due                      1st October 2006 
Acceptance Notification         15th October 2006
Camera ready paper              1st November 2006
Early Bird Registration         1st November 2006

Conference Chair
Dr. Craig Valli   
c.valli () ecu edu au
Edith Cowan University
School of Computer and Information Science
Mount Lawley 
Western Australia   6050               
Phone +61-8-9370-6162

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Dr. Craig Valli
Edith Cowan University
Senior Lecturer - Computer and Network Security
SCISSEC Research Group
http://scissec.scis.ecu.edu.au
c.valli () ecu edu au
Phone +61-8-9370-6162
Fax   +61-8-9370-6100

7th Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference
4th Australian Information Security Management Conference
4th Australian Digital Forensics Conference
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