A moderately sized institution of higher learning receives an ominous threat from a shadowy hacker group. A plucky band of misfits, armed only with open-source forensic tools, is the college’s only hope. What happens next? Will our brave band of heroes be able to stop the cyber terrorists in time?

This talk will give you a good understanding of the new features in the Plaso and Timesketch forensic tools, as well as an insight into some of the analysis processes these tools enable. Rather than just talking about these features, you’ll see how they’re actually deployed in an investigative context.

About the speaker

Daniel White

Incident Response, Forensics and Tools at Google’s security team

Daniel White is a security engineer at Google, focused on forensics, incident response, tool development, and keeping people and data safe.
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