Amazing conference organised by APWG.eu in Barcelona where Pablo López-Aguilar presented our LOCARD Project and highlighted the objective to standardise forensic procedures across the EU Member States. Several Institutions and Law Enforcement Agencies such as the Council of Europe, Mossos d'Esquadra, Policia Nacional, Ertzaintza or the National Police of Japan (JC3) met together to discuss the latest cybercrime trends.

Last September 21st, Tom Dasaklis presented our project at the 4th South-East Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media Conference at the University of Piraeus, Greece.

Tom highlighted the need to standardise forensics procedures as a crucial step to produce high quality reports and explained the Directive 2014/41 and the European Investigation Order (EIO) as an intrument to replace the existing legal framework to the gathering and transfer of evidence between the member states.

The LOCARD_EU project will innovate in key areas such as mobile forensics, cloud forensics, copyright infringement, unification of digital forensics procedures and blockchain. All these topics have been highlighted in the presentation made by Pablo López-Aguilar, from APWG.eu during the three-days IISA 2019 conference in Patras, Greece.

Standardise the process used in the preparation and generation of digital forensic reports is a crucial step towards producing high quality reports. It will encourage digital forensic best practices and facilitate sharing and admissibility of reports across jurisdictions.

LOCARD was presented by Pablo López-Aguilar at the Fourth APWG.eu Annual Symposium on Cybersecurity Awareness (Awareness IV) that took place last June 26 - 27 aimed at mediating the exchange of best practices for cybersecurity awareness campaign deployment at the national and transnational levels.

Awareness IV Bucharest’s objectives are to establish strategies for cybersecurity awareness with the development of messaging tools as a form of cybercrime prevention – and to present resources for deployment of national and globalized cybersecurity awareness campaigns.

Last June 19th, Lorraine Spector and Jon Shamah did a great presentation on LOCARD project at the EEMA Annual Conference 2019, focused on "Managing Criminal Evidence and Cross-border Chain of Custody".

On May 9 - 10, 19 partners from different disciplines met in Athens to start working together in the fight against cybercrime. Working for a safer Europe is a priority!