The European network COST Action 'DigForASP' on Computational Intelligence applications in Digital Forensics held its Third Working Group Workshop on the 23 and 24 October, 2019.

Prof. Carl J. Debono Dean, Faculty of Information and Communication Technology (FICT) , and Prof. Jesus Medina, Chair of COST Action, welcomed the participants.  

Prof. Debono emphasised FICT's commitment to research undertaken by various academics and the newly introduced digital forensics study area in the faculty’s undergraduate programme. He also commented on the topics offered dealt with during the workshop which would lead to adopting effective datasets and the benchmarking of relevant computations on the same dataset.  

Prof. Medina spoke about the Action’s objectives of identifying and consolidating synergies across the contributing fields within Digital Forensics to establish a new paradigm.  The paradigm enhances and optimises results in data recovery and investigation processes.

More than 50 specialists in Artificial and Computational Intelligence, Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity, Law Enforcement and related fields were present to discuss the results achieved in recent months within the European project DigForASP and the alignment of research and practitioners' know how, to the actual requirements of digital forensics systems in the foreseeable future.

Dr Joseph G. Vella,(FICT) and Mr Kenneth Bone (Seasus Ltd) contributed to the local organisation and chaired workshop sessions and group meetings.