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When John is not onstage, he spends his time dealing with technology issues. He is on the faculty for the Institute for Paralegal Education, is a columnist for Security Technology and Design Magazine and is a member of the National Speakers Association. He speaks frequently on Data Security and Computer Forensics/Electronic Evidence Discovery issues. (for more info, go here)This page is made up of resources he has found that are relevant to these topics.

Security and Network Related Sites

Electronic Evidence Discovery Resources

PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) sites - mostly relating to security and encryption

Computer Forensic Sites

Security and Network Related Sites

National Infrastructure Protection Center

Infragard - Joint FBI/Private sector organization.

Electronic Privacy Information Center

Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email

Urban Legends Reference Pages - great site to learn the truth about "Urban Legends" - check out the "Rumors of War" section to learn the truth about current myths/legends.

The SANS Institute Security Policy Project - excellent resource for computer security policies. Explains concepts and has many sample policies.

Electronic Evidence Discovery Resources

Hon. Jacob P. Hart and Anna Marie Plum "Litigating the Production of Electronic Media"  The Practical Litigator, July 2001. (order from http://www.ali-aba.com)

Pike and Fischer Inc.'s "Digital Discovery and e-Evidence" magazine. For information and to view/download a sample copy visit:
http://www.pf.com/law_business_digitaldisc.asp

Free Electronic Evidence Update from Pike and Fischer
http://www.pf.com/register.asp

For definitions of technical terms and concepts visit New Technology's website:
http://www.forensics-intl.com/define.html

Guidance Software - developer of one of the leading digital forensics programs, Encase - http://www.guidancesoftware.com

Harvard Law School's Digital Discovery CLE Library
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/digitaldiscovery/library/

FEDERAL COURTS LAW REVIEW -- 2000 Fed. Cts. L. Rev. 2, "Computer-Based Discovery in Federal Civil Litigation" By Kenneth J. Withers
 http://www.fclr.org/2000fedctslrev2.htm

Kenneth Withers personal website: http://www.kenwithers.com

For information regarding file deletion see, "Secure File Deletion, Fact or Fiction?"(Written by John Mallery)
http://www.sans.org/infosecFAQ/incident/deletion.htm

Department of Justice, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, "Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations" http://www.cybercrime.gov/searchmanual.htm

ABA Civil Discovery Standards – See section VIII – Technolgy
http://www.abanet.org/litigation/taskforces/standards.html

Commissioner Richard E. Best's Electronic Discovery Site - great resource, Commissioner Best has heard discovery and other law and motion matters in San Francisco Superior Court since 1974. (John had the privilege of meeting Commissioner Best in April)
http://californiadiscovery.findlaw.com/index.htm

PDA Sites

Pdd (Palm Forensic Tool) http://www.atstake.com/research/tools/index.html#pdd

Palm OS Password Lockout Bypass  http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2001/a030101-1.txt

PDA Seizure (forensic tool)
 http://www.paraben-forensics.com/pda.html

SANS Institute's Security Reading Room - Section on PDA's
http://www.sans.org/rr/pdas/

Palm's "Securing The Handheld Environment"
http://www.palm.com/enterprise/resources/securing/

Certicom's MovianCrypt handheld encryption program
http://www.certicom.com/products/movian/moviancrypt.html

 

Computer Forensic Sites

Farmerdude - a great guy, brilliant. Don't ask for his opinion, unless you really want it. www.crazytrain.com. He is one of the leading edge folks in the computer forensics industry. Can you say KISS?

ASR Data Acquisition, LLC - Andrew Rosen, one of the creators of "Expert Witness" and creator of the Linux Forensics tool SMART.
www.asrdata.com

Dan Mares - a pioneer in the field of computer forensics. Although his tools run in DOS, they are a part of most forensic experts toolkits. His training is reasonbly priced (obscenely cheap) www.maresware.com

High Technology Crime Investigation Associaton - great group unless you are involved with criminal defense work. Most local chapters have annual conferences that provide great training for a low price.
www.htcia.org.

Access Data - creator of FTK - Forensic Toolkit - www.accessdata.com

The Coroner's toolkit - Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema created a set of tools to examine a *nix system after breakin -
http://www.porcupine.org/forensics/tct.html

@Stake forensic tools - http://www.@stake.com/research/tools/forensic/

 

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