Australian Digital Forensics Conference
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia
Abstract
This paper outlines the possible recovery of potentially sensitive corporate information from residual data. It outlines previous work on the recovery of information contained on second hand hard disks and handheld devices and discusses the risk of individuals conducting industrial espionage by targeting specific organizations. It examines the possible avenues for an attacker to obtain a storage device, then discusses the skill level required to extract information from the storage devices and considers the potential risk to an organization from this particular avenue of attack. The paper concludes by proposing a number of possible countermeasures to enable organizations to reduce the risk of this particular form of attack
DOI
10.4225/75/57b2771540cc2
Comments
6th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, Edith Cowan University, Perth Western Australia, December 3rd 2008.