Latin-American Forensic challenge V.2: Conclusion

Security workshop

Tuesday — October 4th, 2005 16:30

The two major academic computer security related organizations from Mexico and Spain, UNAM through UNAM-CERT and the public company Red.es through RedIRIS security group organized the forensic challenge V2.0, motivating system forensics development in Latin-America. 960 incident handlers were dissecting an image of a compromised Linux system and their reports were evaluated by specialist from Mexico, Spain and Brazil last spring.

For this presentation we will discuss our Experinces and lessons learned about this work and what tools are being used by the community in Latinamerica for this Forensic Challenge.

Presenters

• UNAM-CERT, IRIS-CERT

• Juan Carlos Guel (UNAM-CERT — National Autonomous University of Mexico)

• Francisco. Monserrat (IRIS-CERT — RedIRIS)

  Francisco "Paco" Monserrat is the Security Coordinator of RedIRIS (the Spanish Academic and Research Network) and he is a FIRST member since 1997. During the last few years, he has worked actively on the TF-CSIRT, iniromoting the cooperation among CSIRTs in Europe. Paco has spoken on various conferences and his activities focus on Forense Analysis, criptography and Computer Security Incidents Response Teams.