Network of Excellence in IT Forensics and Data

关于该网络的提议是EPSRC和国防部科学顾问(MOD SA)联合举办的一次关于信息技术取证和数据分析专题的应邀研讨会的结果，反映了与会者同意保持势头，为国防部在这方面确定的科学和工程需求创造解决方案。这次活动首次将网络创始成员聚集在一起，因为他们来自一系列学科，因此反映了广泛范围内的活动的协同作用。这包括信息技术硬件和软件、机器视觉、模式识别和传感、数据存储、加密和分析，包括行为的社会科学方面及其与安全问题有关的分析。网络计划充分利用了该讲习班的势头。所讨论的多样性正是该网络的必要性和及时性的基础/这个新的、跨学科和基础广泛的小组不会自然地走到一起，但在会议上表明了共同努力解决实地关键问题的承诺。参加讲习班的学术人员响应安全和执法机构的倡议，认识到集中力量的价值和好处，并酌情将他们的专门知识与解决这些机构今天面临的迅速变化的问题和不断变化的问题所需的各种关键技能融合在一起。因此，他们制定了及时和反应迅速的战略，例如创建了一个网络，该网络将代表一个交换数据和信息的论坛，通过创建新的、冒险的和令人兴奋的项目提案和团队来促进机动性，从而促进更好地响应快速变化的要求，以帮助确保英国环境和公众的安全。

The proposal for this Network arises as a result of the outcome of an invited workshop, organized jointly by EPSRC and the Ministry of Defence Science Advisors (MOD SA) on the topic of IT Forensics and Data Analysis, reflecting the agreement of the participants to maintain the momentum to create solutions to the scientific and engineering needs identified in this context by the MOD. The event brought the Network founding membership together for the first time, coming as they do from range of disciplines and as a result reflecting a synergy of activity across a wide spectrum. This ranges from IT hardware and software, machine vision, pattern recognition and sensing to data storage, encryption and analysis and including the social science aspects of behaviour and its analysis relating to security issues. The Network plans capitalize upon the momentum of this Workshop.The very diversity discussed underpins the need for and timeliness of the Network / this new, interdisciplinary and broadly-based group would not naturally come together, yet at the meeting demonstrated a commitment to working together to solve key problems in the field. The academic participants at the workshop, responding to the initiatives of the security and law enforcement agencies, recognized the value and benefits of pooling and where appropriate, fusing their expertise across the range of the key skills needed to address the rapidly changing problems and topical and evolving issues facing these agencies today. As a result, they have developed a timely and responsive strategy exemplified in the creation of a Network that will represent a forum for the exchange of data and information, promoting mobility through the creation of new, adventurous and exciting project proposals and teams and thus facilitating of a better response to the rapidly changing requirements to help ensure the safety and security of the environment and public in the UK.