HTCIA 3rd Annual Asia Pacific Regional Training Conference
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Wednesday 24th November 2009

One week to go, and the hands-on days 2-3 are almost full - just 9 places remaining (and out of these, there are only a couple of seats available on the Incident response tracks.

All the speakers are confirmed and will be on the way to HK shortly for what promises to be the best event yet - don't forget, if you are attending the hands-on classes to get your notebook computers ready with VMWare (Workstation or Player) to fully benefit from the interactive training! Just a few of the exciting things that will be happening:

• The worldwide launch of the new Incident Response (open source) Tool called "Phoenix" from the author of Helix
• The launch of F-Response Tactical - the brand new live forensics tool from Matt Shannon
• Our first ever "Mock Court" with leading US lawyer Craig Ball as the Cross Examiner
• Our first look at the complexities of China-made mobile phone forensics
• The launch of some brand new forensics tools from the man (Andrew Rosen) behind the original version of Expert Witness (EnCase)

Stay tuned also for announcements regarding the Challenge... with a dream of a prize for forensic examiners!!

Sunday 1st November 2009

Don't forget - the day after the conference is the opening day of the East Asian Games tournament in Hong Kong. Stay and extra day and enjoy the best ever fireworks display lighting up Victoria Harbour (next to the Conference Hotel) on the evening of Saturday 5th December!!

Saturday 31st October 2009

We now have confirmation that the Conference is being supported by Interpol and they will be sending the Director of Financial and High Tech Crime to provide an opening welcome address!

Tuesday 13th October 2009

The hands-on workshop line-up has now been finalised and we are anticipating no further changes. We have two very exciting additions to the previously published line-up:

1. An advanced, fully interactive network forensics class on the morning of Day 3 by real experts from Decision group in Taiwan - a real insight into effectively protecting and investigating incidents on the corporate network. Outstanding training material will be available for all attendees.
2. Completing the exciting mobile device forensics track on Friday afternoon will be a brand new workshop in understanding and handling the new generation of China-made phones - training by leading experts from within the China Market itself - Pansafe Ltd (makers of SafeMobile)

If you have already made your reservation, you are welcome to change your workshop choices (based on this new information) by clicking on the link in your reservation confirmation e-mails.

Places are going fast... sign up today at http://2009.htcia.org.hk/registration.htm

Sunday 11th October 2009

Why not make this a full 10 days of leading Computer Forensics events in Asia? The HTCIA Conference gets the ball rolling in style, but why not then head up to Beijing for their conference? It starts on Sunday 6th December and for full details, please visit http://www.china-forensic.com/en/2009/index.htm. Then, starting from the 9th December, the Annual IOCE (International Organisation on Computer Evidence) Conference will take place in Asia for the 1st time. Hosted by the National Police Agency of Japan, full details can be found via http://www.ioce.org

Saturday 10th October 2009

Forensic Challenge! - Preparations are well under way between some of our expert speakers to develop a Forensic Challenge for the Conference. The first prize? An unbelievable full suite of forensics tools worth thousands of dollars, generously donated by some of our speakers:

That's four dongles featuring four of the very best forensic tools!! The drawback...? The three best entries will be selected by our panel of experts - entrants must then explain their findings in our Mock Court on Friday afternoon. This mock court will feature Mr. Craig Ball as the defence lawyer, so whoever wins this incredible prize will certainly earn it!! Keep watching for further announcements as we finalise things!

Monday 5th October 2009

LinkedIN... for those of you who are on LinkedIN, please help us promote the conference by indicating that you will be attending (or simply select "interested in attending" in case you are not sure). This helps us to spread the word - please click here to see the LinkedIN event for the conference

Sunday 4th October 2009

The hard work has been done, and yet again, we are proud to be able to bring yet another powerful line-up of speakers to our annual Asia Pacific Training Conference. The website is still being updated, and you will soon see the speakers photos and bios, plus full details of all the presentations and workshops.

The conference this year features some changes from the previous events based on audience feedback. Here are just some of the improvements that will be featured:

• The main seminar day on 2nd December will now feature a single track. In previous events, we held a technical and a management track, but attendees at both tracks expressed a desire to hear both sides. Hence, this year the seminar will take place in the Microsoft Conference Hall with a focus on "Understanding the Bigger Picture". After all, the world of Cyber Incident Response and Digital Forensics is a complex one with many legal grey areas and is increasingly complicated by aspects such as Legal Professional Privilege (LPP) Claims and requirements to make sense of huge volumes of data (especially e-mail) and handle live critical systems. This is futher complicated by the prevalence and power of ubiquitous mobile devices. How to prepare for investigations involving all these elements is the main theme of this conference and is equally relevant to practitioners as it is to modern security managers, CIOs, lawyers, auditors, prosecutors and judiciary.
  
  
• At the end of the main seminar day (prior to the networking function), there will be an open forum featuring leading experts from the legal, forensics and IR fields on the panel - this was a requested feature from previous events and provides you with opportunities to get answers to your own issues from the experts.
  
  
• The hands-on tracks will be moved this year from the HK University to the fantastic surroundings of the HK Police Officer's Club. This is a more compact venue and is easily accessible in the heart of Hong Kong (Causeway Bay).
  
  
• There will be three hands-on tracks again, but due to the slightly smaller size of the venue, we are restricted to a total of 100 attendees for the workshops. This year we invite attendees to bring their own notebook computers, and the presenters will provide VMWare Virtual machines which can be run in the free, multi-platform VMPlayer. These will be distributed prior to the workshops and will include all the training material so that attendees can take them away for their own use later. The Police Officers Club has free wi-fi throughout the premises, and each class will be networked for file sharing.
  
  
• After we ran out of time to prepare a forensic challenge for the 2007 Conference, we have had repeated requests to get one up for this year. Our leading expert trainers are currently discussing the best way forward for this, & if we get one up and running, you can expect it to certainly provide a high level of complexity!! More later...