NTNU Digital Forensics

Research Group

NTNU Digital Forensics

The research group focuses on research and development of advanced computational methods to establish and prove the scientific basis of forensic investigative procedures, with the objective to support forensic examiners in their daily casework. 

About

About our Research Group

We conduct fundamental and applied research to enhance prevention, investigation and prosecution of cybercrime, cyber-enabled fraud, and high technology crime.

We also contribute to advisory services, forensic casework, and expert witness in cooperation with partners from national, European and international law enforcement agencies (LEA), academia and the private sector.

Learn more about our research

 

Topics

  • Research in the area of large-scale investigations; automatic search through terabytes of electronic data storage within closed systems and the Internet,
  • Research and development for the rapid acquisition, correlation and analysis of Internet-related evidence,
  • Technologies for cross-media search and data integration to access diverse sources of information, in particular data enrichment from Internet sources,
  • Algorithms for the analysis of encrypted evidence and cryptographic credentials,
  • Design of advanced computing technologies to achieve more objective evidence analysis and final decision making by implementing computational intelligence.
  • Development of methods and tools for digital penetrator attribution and profiling, visualization of serious criminal relationships and associations, and geographical mapping of digital and physical evidence.

Governance

Mission statement

  • Forensic Teaching Environment
  • Postgraduate Education and Training
  • Curiosity-driven, fundamental research and publications 
  • Applied Research and Development on behalf of Industrial and Governmental Entities
  • Forensic Casework, Expert Witnesses, and Advisory Services in Cooperation with Partners
  • Networking and Community-building Activities, e.g., Workshops, Tutorials, Competitions,…

Objective

  • Study and development of advanced computational methods to
    • Assist in basic and applied forensic research, e.g. to establish or prove the scientific basis of a particular forensic investigative procedure,
    • Support the forensic examiner in their daily casework.
  • Modern crime investigation, prosecution and prevention shall profit from the joint intelligence of humans and machines.

Research activity

Vacant positions

Key academic staff

Key Academic Staff


Part-time academic staff

Part-time Academic Staff


Part-time without Person Portlet

André Årnes, Adjunct Associate Professor

Jefferey D. Hamm, Lecturer, Mandiant/FireEye


Affiliated Academic Staff

Affiliated Academic Staff


Affiliated without person portlet

Inger Marie Sunde, Professor, The Norwegian Police University College (PHS)

Hallstein A. Hansen, PhD, Oslo Police District (OPD)

Jul Fredrik Kaltenborn, PhD Research Fellow, Department of Information Security and Communication Technology


News and events

News and Events


Digital forensics map

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Phd research fellows

Ph.D. Research Fellows


Partners

Partners

Academic partners

  • United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute
  • University California Santa Cruz, USA
  • Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
  • University of Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Norwegian Computing Centre (NR) , Norway
  • Norwegian Police University College (PHS), Norway
  • University in Oslo, Norway
  • University of Malta, Malta
  • National Research Council of Italy, Italy
  • National Intelligence Academy, Romania
  • Edith Cowan University, Australia
  • Fraunhofer Society, Germany
  • Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Japan
  • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Ellinki Aeroporiki Viomichania Anonymi Etairei, Greece
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
  • Universität Stuttgart, Germany

User partners from public sector

  • Norwegian National Police Directorate (POD), Norway
  • Kripos, Norway
  • Økokrim, Norway
  • Oslo Police District (OPD), Norway
  • Netherlands Forensics Institute (NFI), Netherlands
  • Advance Technology Institute, Romania
  • Fraunhofer Society, Germany
  • Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Japan
  • NorSIS – Norsk Senter for Informasjonssikring, Norway
  • Misa SA, Norway
  • Raufoss Technology AS, Norway
  • SINTEF Raufoss Manufacturing, Norway

Security-service providers

  • FinansCERT, Norway
  • mnemonic AS, Norway
  • Synergetics N.V. Group, Belgium
  • Xensics, USA
  • KraftCERT AS, Norway
  • National Sikkerhetsmyndighet (NSM), Norway
  • REALITY NET System Solutions, Italy
  • Ericsson AB, Sweden
  • C 3 M d.o.o., Slovenia
  • Promon, Norway
  • RD&T Technology AB, Sweden