51 specialists representing institutions concerned with cybersecurity discuss during the workshops the role of digital forensics in the investigation processes associated with terrorism and relevant cyberattacks.
The director of the UNCCT shows that these workshops are held in accordance with the UN General Assembly Resolution for combating terrorism and supporting the measures aiming to build the member countries' capacities to overcome the terrorism challenges. These challenges arise from social media, dark web, cryptocurrency, and other tools that are misused for promoting violence, incitement, recruitment, radical beliefs dissemination, and terrorism acts commitment and financing. He adds that modern technology can play a constructive role in these efforts, and such workshops are considered valuable chances for exchanging expertise, enhancing the international cooperation against terrorism, and expanding the scope of assistance offered by the UNCCT to the member countries.
Dr. Jehangir expresses the UN thanks to NAUSS for its fruitful cooperation and efforts in enhancing the international security and encountering all forms of terrorism.
His Excellency Dr. Abdulmajeed bin Abdullah Albanyan indicates that the workshops are organized within the strategic partnership between NAUSS and the UNCCT that has been crowned by a memorandum of understanding.
Dr. Albanyan elucidates that NAUSS in its capacity as the scientific body of the Arab Interior Ministers Council (AIMC) takes the responsibility for implementing the strategy and security plans approved by the Council. Accordingly, it pays attention to the most important challenges, including cybercrimes, encountered by the Arab security agencies. He adds that NAUSS's Supreme Council, headed by His Royal Highness Prince Abdulaziz Bin Saud Bin Naif Bin Abdulaziz, the Minister of Interior and the Chairperson of NAUSS's Supreme Council, has approved the establishment of the Center of Cybercrimes and Digital Forensic Evidence which employs distinguished experts and specialists and includes digital laboratories equipped with the most sophisticated techniques in this field to keep pace with the cybercrime developments.
The workshops including trainees representing 9 Arab and African countries; Jordan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Oman, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Chad, Senegal, and Mali, aim to provide the participants with knowledge, skills, and expertise in the fields relevant to forensic evidence of computers, networks, and mobile devices. They highlight the role of networks' digital forensics in the investigation processes associated with terrorism, cyber terrorism attacks targeting networks, acquisition of data from the system, and detection and analysis of network intrusion. The computer forensics fundamentals, digital investigation process and data processing tools, technical concepts of computers' hardware and software, forensic evidence of operating systems, logfile analysis, internal parts of mobile devices operated by iOS and Android operating systems, and the social networks data existing on the mobile devices are also topics that are explored during the workshops.