Last year I did a post with the symposiums and conferences I found relating to digital forensics for the coming year as I could not find an authoritative source. Here is the 2012 list. Please add any more conferences as a comment or email me and I'll add them in. I'm sure there will be at least one more entry from Napier Uni 's fantastic Cybercrime Symposium series!

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I couldn't find a definitive list of conferences, symposiums or seminars relating to computer forensics / cybercrime / IT security in the UK and Ireland anywhere so I scoured the Internet to come up with this list below. I've tried to find the ones that repeat, i.e. are not one offs. Please write a comment with any I've missed!

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Yesterday and today I was at the 1^st International Conference on Cybercrime, Security and Digital Forensics held at Strathclyde University where I presented a paper I wrote based on my master's thesis on web history visualisations for forensic investigations. You can download the paper and my slides here, or contact the conference organiser for the whole conference book. The presentation went really well; I'm still a bit in shock as to how well actually..! A lecturer from Glasgow Uni was interested in using Webscavator as part of her Usable Security course, and a lecturer from the Australian University of Ballerat was keen to help extend the tool - and said the Australian police had heard of me and were possibly using it! Other people including lecturers from Abertay Uni and Cranfield Uni were also interested in using/helping extend it and both said I should do a PhD. Hmmm, a lot of think about!

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