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Name: Department of Defense Computer Forensics Lab (DCFL)
URL: http://www.dc3.mil/dcfl/dcflAbout.php
Description: “The Defense Computer Forensics Laboratory (DCFL) is a world class facility providing comprehensive evidentiary analysis of material. The lab provides services to the Defense Criminal Investigative Organizations and other lab customers and helps efficiently and effectively prove or disprove allegations being investigated. DCFL has organized digital forensic examinations within an industrial process that is unmatched elsewhere in terms of its scope. It is accredited by the American Society of Crime Lab Directors (ASCLD/LAB), the preeminent authority for accredited crime labs in the United States. The lab’s prime focus is on intrusions, national security cases and Special Access Program support. In Fiscal Year 2007, the lab processed 171 terabytes of media, the approximate equivalent of 17 Libraries of Congress-worth of information. This media, part of the year’s 758 cases processed, included information from criminal, counterintelligence, data recovery, and trial support cases.”
Name: Interpol Information Technology Crime
Duration: 1990
URL: http://www.interpol.int/Public/TechnologyCrime/default.asp
Description: Interpol has actively been involved for a number of years in combating Information Technology Crime. Rather than ‘re-inventing the wheel’, the Interpol General Secretariat has harnessed the expertise of its members in the field of Information Technology Crime (ITC) through the vehicle of a ‘working party’ or a group of experts. In this instance, the working party consists of the heads or experienced members of national computer crime units. These working parties have been designed to reflect regional expertise and exist in Europe, Asia, the Americas and in Africa. All working parties are in different stages of development. For instance, the European working party meets three times per year and includes 15 countries. It has completed the compilation of the Computer Crime Manual, now called Information Technology Crime Investigation Manual (ITCIM), a best practise guide for the experienced investigator, which is continually updated; in order to be more practical (in terms of its volume) and cost efficient, the manual has been made available on CD; an updated version of the CD is currently under production. The content of the Computer Crime Manual is also being converted into HTML format, and is digitally available via Interpol's restricted website. Working groups also provide training for digital forensics professionals.
Name: Vancouver Police Department Forensics Services Section
URL: http://vancouver.ca/police/investigation/index.htm
Description: The function of the Investigation Division of the VPD is to investigate all crimes referred to it for further attention. In most cases these will be crimes that have already been investigated to a certain level by the Patrol Division. Detectives may be called out to the scenes of crimes to assist, take over investigations or given the Patrol report for follow-up work. Once assigned, the specialized investigator will use their expertise, knowledge and skills to bring the case to a conclusion. The Investigation Section is divided into several sections specializing in various crimes or service. The Forensic Services Section is broken up into the Financial Crime Squad with its own Computer Investigative Support Unit, Forensic Firearm & Tool Mark, and the Forensic Identification Squad.
Name: National White Collar Crime Center
URL: http://www.nw3c.org/
Description: The mission of NW3C is to provide a nationwide support system for agencies involved in the prevention, investigation, and prosecution of economic and high-tech crimes and to support and partner with other appropriate entities in addressing homeland security initiatives, as they relate to economic and high-tech crimes. We are a congressionally-funded, non-profit corporation whose membership primarily comprises law enforcement agencies, state regulatory bodies with criminal investigative authority, and state and local prosecution offices. While NW3C has no investigative authority itself, its job is to help law enforcement agencies better understand and utilize tools to combat economic and high-tech crime.
Name: Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Department of Justice
URL: http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/
Description: The Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) is responsible for implementing the Department's national strategies in combating computer and intellectual property crimes worldwide. The Computer Crime Initiative is a comprehensive program designed to combat electronic penetrations, data thefts, and cyberattacks on critical information systems. CCIPS prevents, investigates, and prosecutes computer crimes by working with other government agencies, the private sector, academic institutions, and foreign counterparts. Section attorneys work to improve the domestic and international infrastructure-legal, technological, and operational-to pursue network criminals most effectively. The Section's enforcement responsibilities against intellectual property crimes are similarly multi-faceted. Intellectual Property (IP) has become one of the principal U.S. economic engines, and the nation is a target of choice for thieves of material protected by copyright, trademark, or trade-secret designation. In pursuing all these goals, CCIPS attorneys regularly run complex investigations, resolve unique legal and investigative issues raised by emerging computer and telecommunications technologies; litigate cases; provide litigation support to other prosecutors; train federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel; comment on and propose legislation; and initiate and participate in international efforts to combat computer and intellectual property crime.
Name: FBI Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory
URL: http://www.rcfl.gov/
Description: An RCFL is a one stop, full service forensics laboratory and training center devoted entirely to the examination of digital evidence in support of criminal investigations such as terrorism, child pornography, crimes of violence, trade secret theft, theft or destruction to intellectual property, financial crime,property crime, internet crimes, and fraud. RCFL Examiners combine the talents and experience of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. The RCFL's duties may include seizing and collecting digital evidence at a crime scene, conducting an impartial examination of submitted computer evidence, and testifying as required. The site offers links to all the RCFLs, news updates, a webcast, and downloadable reports.