DFRWS 2018 - 2018 USA Digital Forensics Research Workshop

RESEARCH PAPERS undergo double-blinded, peer review, and are published by Elsevier in a special issue of Digital Investigation.
PRESENTATIONS, POSTERS, and DEMOS undergo a light review process to select presentations of maximal interest to DFRWS attendees, and filter out sales pitches. Presentation proposals must specify their target length from the following options: 20 minutes, 120 minutes (2 hours), or 240 minutes (4 hours). Note, 2-4 hour presentations are referred to as ‘workshops’ described below.
WORKSHOPS can be several hours or full day, and typically include hands-on participation by attendees, allowing for an in-depth, detailed exploration of tools and techniques of interest to DFRWS attendees. Workshops can and they can cover state-of-the-art research projects, useful tips and techniques for standard tools, or most anything that DFRWS attendees would consider beneficial. While commercial tools can be used, these workshops or tutorials should NOT be thinly-veiled commercial advertisements.
DFRWS will provide one free conference registration for each tutorial and workshop accepted.
Topics of Interest
Memory analysis and snapshot acquisition
Storage forensics, including solid state
"Big data" forensics, related to collection, analysis, and visualization
Incident response and live analysis
Forensics of cloud and virtualized environments
Malware and targeted attacks (analysis and attribution)
Network and distributed system forensics
Event reconstruction methods and tools
Mobile and embedded device forensics
Digital evidence storage and preservation
Data recovery and reconstruction
Multimedia analysis
Database forensics
Tool testing and development
Digital evidence and the law
Case studies and trend reports
Data hiding and discovery
Anti-forensics and anti-anti-forensics
Interpersonal communications and social network analysis
Non-traditional forensic scenarios and approaches (e.g. vehicles, Internet of Things, industrial control systems, and SCADA)
Archival preservation & reconstruction