On Friday I went to the 4th International Conference on Cyber Security and Education, held at the Scottish Police College in Tullillan Castle. There were loads of really interesting talks and I think the only let down was the lack of abstracts/summaries of each talk; so often I was blindly going into a talk in one of the three streams available with the title “malware” or “threat analysis” without much of an idea of what would be said. Photos and tweets from the event can be found with the hashtag #thecyberacademy.

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Day 2 was just as good as day one, here are the highlights:

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Today I attended and spoke at day one of two of the 4th Cybercrime, Security and Digital Forensics Conference 2014, held at Strathclyde University in Glasgow. My presentation was one an open source project I have been working away at for the last 3 or 4 months, and I'll do a more detailed update on that later in the week. I met a lot of lovely forensics and information security people & many PhD students, nice to do some networking with like minded people every once in a while!

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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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In November the UK government released the “UK Cyber Security Strategy” which can be downloaded here. There are four main objectives which will be funded by £650million over 4 years under the “National Cyber Security Programme” (NCSP). The objectives are:

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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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