The IFIP Working Group 11.9 on Digital Forensics (www.ifip119.org) is an active international community of scientists, engineers and practitioners dedicated to advancing the state of the art of research and practice in digital forensics. The Twenty-First Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics will provide a forum for presenting original, unpublished research results and innovative ideas related to the extraction, analysis and preservation of all forms of electronic evidence. Papers and panel proposals are solicited. All submissions will be refereed by a program committee comprising members of the Working Group. Papers and panel submissions will be selected based on their technical merit and relevance to IFIP WG 11.9. The conference will be limited to approximately 60 participants to facilitate interactions between researchers and intense discussions of critical research issues. Keynote presentations, revised papers and details of panel discussions will be published as an edited volume – the twenty-first volume in the well-known Research Advances in Digital Forensics book series (Springer, Cham, Switzerland) during the summer of 2025.

Submission Guidelines

Technical Papers: All technical paper submissions (in .pdf format) should be submitted using the EasyChair System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifipwg1192025. Manuscripts should be in English and not longer than 30 pages (typed double-spaced format in a 12-point font) or equivalent. Each submission should have a cover page with the titles, names and addresses (including e-mail addresses) of authors, an abstract of approximately 200 words, and a list of keywords. Please contact the program co-chair (sujeet[at]utulsa.edu) in case of questions and clarifications.

Panels: Proposals for panels (in .pdf format) should be emailed to the program co-chair (sujeet[at]utulsa.edu). Panel proposals should include a one-page description of the topic, along with the name and address (including e-mail address) ofthe organizer, and a list of proposed panelists.

Conference Deadlines

Paper/Panel Submission: September 30, 2024

Notification of Acceptance: October 31, 2024

List of Topics

Areas of special interest include, but are not limited to:

• Theories, techniques and tools for extracting, analyzing and preserving digital evidence
• Enterprise and cloud forensics
• Mobile and embedded device forensics
• Image and video forensics
• Internet of Things forensics
• Digital forensic processes and workflow models
• Digital forensic case studies
• Legal, ethical and policy issues related to digital forensics

Venue

The conference will be held in New Delhi, India at the Eros Hotel on January 6-7, 2025.

Contact

Please contact the program co-chair (sujeet[at]utulsa.edu) in case of questions and clarifications.