Forensic Education Resources:

INTERNET RESOURCES FOR COMPUTER FORENSICS

GENERAL RESOURCES

Educational Sites

CARIS - Center for Advanced Research in InfoSec at University of Illinois.

CERIAS - Purdue's Center for Education & Research in Information Assurance Security

CERT - Carnegie Mellon's Coordination Center for Internet Security Expertise.

Center for Computer Communications Security - also at Carnegie Mellon.

Critical Infrastructure Project - joint project of George Mason and James Madison U.

CISSP Certification - online study guides available.

Colleges with Courses in Digital/Computer Forensics - from E-Evidence Info Center.

Complete List of College Crypto and Security Courses - for U.S. and worldwide.

Dartmouth College ISTS - Institute for Security Technology Studies.

George Mason University.

GMU Technology Law - an InfoSec Center think tank.

George Washington University - Off-programs related to InfoSec.

Georgia Tech Information Security Center - College of Computing and Info Security Center.

Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection - a consortium group at Dartmouth.

Indiana Univ. of PA - Center of Excellence in Information Assurance.

Institute of Police Technology - popular Florida courses in computer crime investigation.

ISS advICE - database on infosec and anti-hacker techniques.

ITLabsOnline - helpful resources found here.

John Hopkins Security Informatics Institute - an industry-academe partnership.

Kennesaw State Cybercrime Institute - SCI Southeast Cybercrime Institute.

MIT Lab for Computer Science Ron Rivest's Group - InfoSec and Cryptography Pages.

National Defense University - their many Centers on Information and Technology.

New York University Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems - joint project with Cornell et. al.

Oregon State Information Security Laboratory - College of Computing, Math, and Engineering.

Univ. of California Davis - Computer Security Laboratory.

UNC-Charlotte IT course offerings - in security, privacy, and other topics.

Univ. of Tulsa - Center for Information Security.

Government Sites

CERT (Computer Emergency Readiness Team) - coordinates attacks against the nation.

CIAO (Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office) - coordinates top twenty list of vulnerabilities.

DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency) - Air Force, Army, Navy IS.

DOJ Cybercrime Bureau - a department of Justice website with a kid's page.

EC InfoSec home page - European Commission InfoSec site.

FedCIRC - great source for incident notes and intrusion detection tips.

FBI - the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

InterPol - their Technocrime Prevention page, with checklist.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - cutting edge research in energy science.

Los Alamos National Laboratory - futuristic applied research.

NIPC (National Infrastructure Protection Center) - Infraguard and where most incidents reported.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - technological innovation.

GAO Cyber-Security Assessments - yearly risk assessments in pdf and htm format.

NIH Center for Security Information - includes advisories and other links.

NIST Computer Security Division and CSRC - Department of Commerce sites.

NPS CISR - Navy Postgraduate School Center for InfoSec Research.

Office of Homeland Security - America's newest cabinet level agency.

Sandia National Laboratory - emerging technologies that respond to national security threats.

White House National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace - the official strategy of the U.S.

Industrial, Organization, or Private Sector Sites

CVE - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures.

Computer Security Institute - a professional association that holds conferences.

CyberSecurity Institute - a buisiness site listing core competencies in computer forensics.

E-Evidence Info - big list of links in computer forensics.

FIRST - a Forum of government, business, and academic incident responders.

Forensics NL - big list of computer forensics and cybercrime resources.

Infosyssec: The Security Portal for IT Professionals - a private think tank.

Jane's Information Group/Security Section - focus on terrorism and information technology.

Microsoft Research - innovations in a variety of mathematically possible ways.

Microsoft Technet - be sure to see the Security Bulletins and Support Knowledge Base.

MIS Training Institute - provides courses and more in Audit and Information Security training.

Mitretek Systems - a well-known think tank in criminal justice engineering.

National Security Institute - provider with a lot of educational resources online.

NIST List of Computer Security Organizations - professional associations and conferences.

RAND Corporation - a well known think tank in public policy.

SANS Institute - perhaps the premiere cyber-defense institute; intrusion detection specialists.

World Research Group - holders of training workshops on computer forensics.