CPD Presentations

Starting to work on two presentations that I will be giving next month, will be revamping my Hollywood Forensic presentation that I will be giving to the Hertfordshire Branch of the BCS http://bit.ly/AcZ3TC on the 24th April, a look at how the TV and film industry portray digital forensics and a look at how it is done, sort of gentle introduction to the topic of Digital Forensics combined with a reality check for those who get a fix of the CSI an NCIS etc on a weekly basis. Will also be doing the same talk at the Bedford branch of the BCS in June, this will appear on the web page http://bit.ly/GIZbFu in the next month.

The other talk is on wireless security but looking at the home users prospective rather than industry use of wireless, this is for the Hertfordshire Section of the Instiutute of Measurement and Control http://bit.ly/GHN0Xm. This takes in my research interest that I am covering in my other blog Wireless MSc Research http://bit.ly/GIz8vM the talk will look at the issues in implementing a network using wireless technology, especially in the domestic environment. Wireless technology has a history of security problems with flaws in the implementation of WEP and recently with WPS. Secure configuration is becoming increasing more  important as a lot more users are using wireless to create multimedia entertainment systems, enabling laptops, smartphones and games console to have internet access and to create a CCTV system to monitor home security and children's playrooms. The courts have already convicted paedophiles of piggybacking neighbours wireless networks to download material and hackers of using wireless networks for pirating software, music and films and for spying on occupants using their own security cameras. I will be covering the (opensource) tools that can be used and how these apply to the home environment. The talk will include practical demonstrations of the tools and techniques discussed in the presentation and unravel the alphabetic soup of the available standards.