What if the worst has happened and your data has been compromised, your commercial secrets stolen or your company's money transferred to a numbered account somewhere? Has the culprit erased his tracks? Deleted the files and formatted the hard disk? Used assumed names on the Internet? Unless the hard disk is physically destroyed, there is a chance to recover the data, trace the path through the Internet and recover your lost data or trace missing money. Again there are tools available which will do NEARLY what you want, but do you want to stake your company's future on the difference on NEARLY?

Mr. Kevin Hartman, of Hill & Associates Information Security Division will discuss data protection and forensic data recovery. He will use examples from actual recent investigations where recovered data has proven crucial in the success of the enquiry. Most of this recovered data was declared hopelessly lost before Hill & Associates teams were involved. Mr Hartman will present some demonstrations of the capabilities of a forensic investigator using live data and current state of the art tools.

Mr. Hartman will also discuss some of the methods that are used to track criminal activity on the Internet. He will dispel some of the myths of Internet anonymity and also present some current tools that are in use by investigative agencies to correlate, and visualise the complex data mountains that are involved in the commission of crimes both involving and using computers.

Finally, using similar tools Mr. Hartman will present some ideas on how to manage and control the masses of data that are gathered during financial fraud and other complex criminal cases allowing investigators to focus on relevant links and leads in evidence.